The Chinese Floods Fearful Loss of Life. Three Hundred Thousand Drowned. SHANGHAI
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 2
Official reports from Nanking have estimated the total loss of life along the grand canal at 300,000, as a result of the collapse of dykes in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Racehorse Accident. Horse Drops Dead and Fatally Injures Rider. BRISBANE
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 3
Richard Howard, a jockey, was riding a race horse at Carmilla (Q.), when the animal suddenly dropped dead. Howard was thrown to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scalp Torn Off Struck Sharp Beam in Shearing Shed Accident at "Saffron Estate" Daysdale
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 3
Mr. Frank Castle, 35 years of age, who is employed by Mr. W. R. McPherson, of "Saffron Estate," Daysdale, was the victim of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men Injured in Mine
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 10
Shocking injuries to the head were suffered by one man and minor injuries by another as a result of an explosion at the Box Flat colliery, near Ipswich…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bus Overturns. on Mt. Buffalo Road. Five Passengers Injured
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 3
Five of 18 passengers in a motor bus were injured early on Monday morning, when the bus, which was travelling from the Mount Buffalo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrific Storm in Sydney Great Damage by Wind. Woman Drowned at Jamberoo Coastal Vessels in Difficulties. Sydney, Friday Noon
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 2
Sydney and suburbs were visited by a terrific storm during the night, which was responsible for a great deal of damage. Many people had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Accident. Racing Car Plunges Amongst Spectators. ROME
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 3
Four were killed and 15 seriously injured in an appalling accident on the Monzia racing track, when a giant Alfa-Romeo racer lept. across…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Body on Snag Traveller's Point Drowning
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 3
After a lapse of over two months, the body of Charles Woodhouse, aged 30, labourer, who was drowned at Traveller's Point on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man and Woman Injured Melbourne
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 3
Robert Millard (50), had his hand blown off, and Bertha Baker (45), received severe injuries to her arms and back, as the result of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ammonia Tube Explodes Accident at Albury Show Three Men Affected
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 3
On Wednesday morning as a refrigerating plant owned by the Gippsland and Northern. Agency Company was being dismantled in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tea Rifle Accident
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2
A lad named Robert Irvine, aged 12, son of Mrs. E. Irvine, chef employed at the Royal Hotel, Moulamein, was the victim of a pea-rifle accident. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →River Tragedy Man and Son Drowned. Wife Still Missing
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1931 · page 3
The bodies of William Baskwell, aged 36 years, and his son, aged 8 years, were recovered from the Murrumbidgee River on Sunday. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Injured by Oven
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 8
Allen Smith, aged 19 years, narrowly escaped death lit Goulburn when a baker's oven in which ho was working collapsed and he was buried by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ALBURY & DISTRICT Boy Injured at Rand
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 9
While bird nesting, a lad named Robert Godde, aged 15, who lives at Hand, fell thirty feet from a tree, and broke his left arm. He was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Carrathool Tragedy Father and Son Drowned Wife Still Missing
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 3
The fears of the Carrathool police for the safety of William Baskshell, his wife and young son, aged about eight years, whose home was a camp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Accidents. Liner Crashes. Six Persons Incinerated
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 2
BUCHAREST, Wednesday. -- When a Fokker airliner from Paris crashed in flames at Balachuca, six occupants were incinerated. The "Panama…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Accident. Two Petrol Laden Trains Collide. A Continental Catastrophe. BUCHAREST
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 2
Two petrol-loaded trains collided at high speed, near Plosoti. Fifty waggon loads of petrol caught fire. Five railway men were incinerated and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horse Stumbles Accident on Albury, Road Elderly Woman Thrown Heavily to Ground Little Girl Leaps From Sulky
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 3
An accident which occurred on Albury road at about 12.40 p.m. on Friday last resulted in an elderly lady being admitted to Corowa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tree Climber Injured
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 4
Reginakl Gordon, a schoolboy, who resides with his parents at Lavington; was the victim of an accident on Wednesday. He had climbed a tree…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Bleeding Accident. Result of a Fight. SYDNEY, Friday Noon
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 2
George Carter (41), was found lying in a pool of blood in a gutter outside his house at Rozelle, last night, with a jagged wound in the left arm and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →