11 Children Lose Fathers As Result of Car Accident Sydney
Eleven' children were left fatherless when two men were killed in a car smash on Christmas Eve, it was slated at the inquest at Parramatta to-day…
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Youth Drowned Melbourne. Sunday
While swimming in the bay at Dromana early this morning. Peter Foreman aged 19. of Fairview Grove. Malvern East, was drowned. He entered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Men Injured When Two Taxis Collide Woman's Discovery Melbourne
Awakened by a loud noise about 3.30 a.m. to-day, Mrs. G. D'Orsay, who lives above a grocery shop in Park St., South Melbourne, went into the street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car's Death Plunge Racing Official Drowned Two Other Men Have Narrow Escapes Melbourne
When a motor car driven by Eric Welch, well-known radio sporting commentator, plunged into the River Yarra near Duke & Orr's dry dock, at 3 a.m…
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Allen McFarlane, aged 18, of Yarra Bay, was rescued from Yarra Bay to-night on the point of drowning. While fishing he collapsed and fell in. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Good Fillies Injured Sydney
Bush Bee, who was injured while racing at Canterbury on Saturday, will be given a spell for some months. Gay Romance, who was also injured, will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seven Men Drowned When Irving to Reach Stricken Steamer London, January 23
Seven men are believed to have been drowned when the St. Ives life-boat was lost in a terrific north-westerly gale to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ellsworth Hurries From Frozen South with Injured Officer Aboard New York, Jan. 23. (N.A.N.A. Copyright)
Lincoln Ellsworth, who has interrupted his exploratory work in the Antarctic in order to return to Hobart so that Chief Officer Liavaag might undergo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Concerned at Accidents to Fettlers
To aid in the saving of lives of railway fettlers, the Hornsby Coroner (Mr. Williams) suggested to-day that railway authorities should notify all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Drowned in Cyclonic Storm Suva, Jan. 24
As a result of a cyclonic storm, a Fijian man, Ins .wife and five children are reported to have been drowned in the Navua district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Fatally Injured at Timber Mill Melbourne
Struck by a wire rope while working in a timber mill at Powelltown today, Daniel Cusack, aged 42, a married man with a wife and four…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →40 Injured When Two Trams Collide Wild Confusion Follow Many Women Hysterical Sydney
Two crowded trams collided in Parramatta road, near Camperdown, to-day, and 40 people were injured. The front of one tram and the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Apprentice Jockey Injured Melbourne
The apprentice jockey, F. Tocknell. received a bruised back when he was thrown from Magic Circle at Epsom to-day. The horse shied at a shadow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Jockeys Injured S. Ralph and M. Campbell Melbourne
The apprentice jockeys, S. Ralph and M. Campbell, were taken to Pakenham Hospital after falls at the Pakenham races to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Tram Accident Forty Passengers Injured. SYDNEY
Colliding with terrific force in Camperdown, two trams telescoped and 40 passengers' were injured. Twenty were admitted to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Drowned in Lake Sydney
A few minutes after he had told his two sons, who were swimming on January 10 in Lake Parramatta, to leave the water, James Mitchell, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reasons for Accidents Discussed Bt Albury Businessmen'
Reasons for the cause of road accidents in Albury were given at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last evening when offences against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Surfer Drowned at Lorne Melbourne
When surfing at Lome early this afternoon, Frederick Grigg, aged 22, of Lorne, lost his surfboard and was carried out by the tide. Grigg who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Fatally Injured Launceston
Injuries which later caused her death were received by Mrs. Annie Maria Breen, of Turner’s Marsh, on Saturday afternoon, when a motor truck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brothers Drowned Companion’s Vain Search Bay Tragedy Melbourne
Two brothers, Edward O’Donnel and Jack O’Donnel, of Victoria St., East Brunswick, were drowned in Port Phillip Bay yesterday during a sailing trip…
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