Holiday Makers in Crash Car Overturns After Collision Guinea Street Accident
A party of holiday-makers had almost miraculous escapes from serious injury when the car in which they were travelling was overturned in…
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Drowned in Lagoon Near Wangaratta Young Melbourne Man’s Fate
A young man, Alfred Waldo Goodrope, of Harding street, Coburg, was drowned in a lagoon near the Ovens River at Peechelba, near Wangaratta,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Deaths Young Man Drowned Several Road Fatalities Melbourne
Jack Holt, aged 21, of Como Parade Mordialloc, was, drowned in Port Phillip Ray to-day. A poor swimmer, Holt was hanging on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Transport Smash in Bushfire Smoke Three Men Injured Brisbane
Believed to have been caused by bushfire smoke obscuring the vision of the drivers, two three-ton transports crashed head-on on the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Persons Killed Two When Truck Overturns Horseman Fatally Injured Sydney
Two people were killed, and two were critically injured when a utility truck overturned at Rose Bay this morning. The killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Injured in Car Accident at Albury
A car driven by Mr. Gordon Davidson, manager of the “Border Morning Mail,” collided with a tree in Wyse st. early last evening, when the…
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Believed to have suffered a heart attack, George Lancaster, aged 13, of Mount Victoria, was drowned at Blackheath swimming baths to-day. His…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Little Girl Injured in Fall From Motor Car
June Lane, aged 5, of Belmore, Sydney, who was travelling from Sydney with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. Lane, sustained a. fractured knee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unusual Race Fatality. Horse Gets Out Of Control During Race. MELBOURNE
The race horse, Miss Ereil, threw and killed its jockey, L. Sampson, and stampeded into the crowd at Rosebank. at the Brim Springs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Man, Aged 20, Killed Mother and Sister Injured Newcastle
Alexander Patrick Nowlan, aged 20, of Singleton, was killed, his mother suffered a fractured right leg and internal injuries and his sister, Alma,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →47 Lives Lost in N.S.W. Holiday Motoring Toll Worse Than Last Year Road Deaths Predominate Ten Persons Were Drowned SYDNEY
The death roll in N.S.W. since Christmas Eve numbers 47 persons, 23 of whom died in road accidents. This compares with a death roll of 30 in the same period last year. The preceding year the death roll was only 19…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found Dead Over Cliffs. a Peculiar Accident. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon
The body of a man was found on the rocks, 60 feet below the cliffs at Maroubra, this morning, Some hours earlier a woman was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Festivities Had No Heavy “Hang-over” Only Two Person Fall into Law’s Hands Accidents Were Few, too
New Year’s Day is often a day of reckoning, when the misdemeanors of New Year’s Eve bring their meed of punishment. In…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bagot Marred by Fatal Accident Avenger Destroyed Broke a Fetlock Would Have Won Event Melbourne
The Bagot Handicap at Flemington was marred by the fatal accident which befell Avenger, winner of the A.J.C. Derby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Man Fatally Injured Drouin
When his motor cycle came into collision, with a car on the Warragul road last night, Frederick Vanes, aged 24, married, an employe of the Drouin…
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Aubrey Keneeth Biddle, aged 28, general carrier, of Dundee, near Glen Innee, and his wife, Physllis Marjorie Biddle, aged 25, were drowned to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corowa -Man Injured when Car Overturns and Catches Fire
When a car which he was driving overturned near Corowa about 8.30 o’clock last night, Thomas Farran, aged 22, of Corowa, received serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr E. H. Way Injured. Fall From a Horse
On Friday morning last Mr E. H. Way met with a painful accident which will keep him inactive for a few weeks He got on his horse, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist for Trial Death of a Boy Christmas Eve Fatality Sydney
Charles Henry Reid, aged 20 described as a junior laborer at Homebush abattoir, was committed for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →300 Accident Deaths 24 Suicides New York, Jan. 3
There were 24 suicides during the holidays in New York, which was the highest total ever recorded during a three-day period in the history of the…
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