Killed by "Dumper" Wave. Surf Fatality at South Steyne Sydney
Taking his usual morning "constitutional" in the surf at South Steyne, a practice he kept up throughout the year, William Andrade, aged 73,…
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Motorist Dies From Sever- Ed Neck Vein Flying Glass Caused Fatality Sydney
Struck in the throat by a long pointed piece of glass from the shattered windscreen of his car when it collided with a lorry at Helensburgh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Drags Victim in Fatal Accident Melbourne
Dragged a considerable distance by a motor car which crashed into him near his home in Clarendon street. South Melbourne, last night George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ganger Badly Injured
Percival William Woods, a railway, ganger, of Ebden, was driving a rail motor trolly between Wodonga and Ebden on Saturday, when it left the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YOUTH'S £5000 Claim Settled Injured in Accident Melbourne
It was announced in the First Civil Court to-day that an amicable settlement had been reached m the case in which Eric Maxwell Walton, aged 18,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Rail Accident. Crash Through Burned Bridge. SYDNEY, Monday night
Alexander Arkley (50), the driver of a log train was fatally scalded yesterday when the engine plunged through a burnt out bridge in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman’s Hat That Blew Off Caused Accident Sydney
When a woman driver's hat blew off in Pitt st., to-day, a baby model car collided with a tram and the woman and her four-year old daughter were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Henty Woman Seriously Injured Car Somersaults Five Times
Miss Alice Jones, of Henty, was seriously injured early yesterday morning when a car in which she was a passenger left the road and…
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Failing to return home after a visit to the Bendigo Municipal Baths this afternoon inquiries were made into the disappearance of Leslie Orrock, aged 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Onion Official in Crash Secretary Critically Injured Motor Car Overturns Melbourne
Six officials of Hospital Employes’ Union and a typist were injured when the tyre of the car in which they were travelling to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man and Woman Killed Car Hits Telegraph Pole Three Other Occupants Injured Hobart
Two of the five occupants of a motor car which got out of control at Ten Mile Hill on the Hobart-Launceston road early to-day and collided with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Driver of Jinker Fatally Injured Collision with Motor Truck Bacchus Marsh
Fatally injured when the jinker he was driving came into collision with a motor truck on the Western highway to-day, Richard T. Griffiths, aged 28,…
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Having sustained an injury [?] knee when a steer crushed [?] a fence while taking part in [?] riding competition on Wedne[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragic Fatality Death of Mr. Alan Tracy
Lying beside his car on the side of the Hume Highway, about 11 miles from Albury, the body of Alan Walton Tracy, aged 31 years, was found on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Motor Accident on Yerong Creek-henty Road Miss Alice Jones Critically Injured
Whilst returning from a church house party at "Grubben," the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hogan, Yerong Creek, in the early hours of Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Strikes Mine. Nine of Crew Drowned LONDON--Nov. 15
Nine men, including the skipper, were drowned when the steamer "Woodtown" was blown up by an explosion and sank within a minute,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight-Year-Old Girl Burnt to Death in Tram-Car Collision NEWCASTLE
When a tram and car collided on the Wallsend tramline at Lambton tonight the car caught lire and Helen James aged 8 of Hartley st., Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Brothers Killed On Way to the Pictures Motor Cycle Involved in a Collision Sydney
Less than half an hour after leaving their home with the intention of going to the pictures yesterday afternoon, three young…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victim of Accident Dead Melbourne
Struck by a motor car at the intersection of Grange and Dandenong roads, Malvern, last Wednesday night, Frederick Rees, of Calembeena…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Men Escape Drowning
When a boat in which were four Albury men struck a snag in the Murray river on Sunday afternoon, they were thrown into the flooded stream…
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