Shocking Fatality At Culcairn Soldier Mangled by Train
Just as a train had passed the Culcairn railway station on Tuesday last, Signaller Gayo Matesich, a Yugo-Slav, fell from a…
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Cyclist Fatally Injured. Melbourne
Fatal injuries were sustained by Samuel Williams, of Herbert st., Campbellfield, when the bicycle he was riding was [?] by a car outside Fawkner cemetery last night…
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John Gavan, aged 20, a member of a home defence unit, was shot dead on Saturday night The bullet, accidentally discharged from a service rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Big Fire Due to Accident” SYDNEY
Contrary to earlier reports, detectives believe that the fire which caused £10,000 worth of damage at [?] W. Hughes’ wool stores lust night, was accidentally brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train and Hearse Collide Accident at Crossing; Albury Residents Injured WANGARATTA
This afternoon at 140 o'clock, as Mr W Lester and his assistant, Mr George Hodge. both of Albury, were returning to Albury with an empty hearse, the vehicle…
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Early today, Ernest Edward Belyco, aged 63, of Wentworth avenue. Canterbury, was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Canterbury road and Myrtle from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Arrested Following Fatal Collision SYDNEY
Following a smash on the railway bridge at Lawsan in which an 8-ton military track was involved, two soldiers have been arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys Badly Injured Melbourne
[?] United States Army [?] while riding in a [?] truck in [?] [?] Saturday, two days were [?] Children’s Hospital[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Capt. Churchill Injured. London. May 30
It is announced in Cairo dial Capt Randolph Churchill, son of the British Prime Minister, has been admitted to hospital suffering from bruises received in a car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Shooting Accident Mr. Jack Carr Killed
A sad fatality occurred at his home, Wilga, Hillston, on Saturday morning when Mr. Jack Carr, second son of the late H. J. Carr was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Pea-rifle Accident
Mr. James Lawrence Hutcheson, 35 years of age, of Diggora West left his home on Thursday morning with a pea rifle with the intention of shooting a…
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A man, understood to be named W. Stevens, of Tallangatta, was fatally injured in a motor car accident on Bonegilla road, near Wodonga, early…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Drowned at Barnawartra
On Thursday afternoon a search party at Barnawartha recovered the body of Barry, the 4-year-old ton of Mr and Mrs Ralph Wilson, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children Drowned in Air Raid Trenches SYDNEY
Veronica Pickering, aged 21 months, of Enfield, and Betty Norris, aged 17 months, of Corrimal, have been drowned in air raid trenches. A third child,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Hu[?]t in Collision
As the result of a motor truck driven by Mr J. G. A[?]tken colliding with a spring cert driven by Mr A. Ison at the corner of Evelyn st. and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned After Attack on Mother Wellington (R[?])
Edith Afford, aged 38, who was alleged to have struck her mother on the head with a poker and then set fire to their house. was later drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Railway Station
Crushed between two buffers at the Albury railway station about 8 o'clock last evening Mr R. Schliebs, a casual railway Worker, of Butnimb[?]ttock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Tank Fatality
About 12 hoon yesterday Mr H. A. [?], of the Shell Oil Co., Narandera, enlered one of the company’s 9000-sallon petrol tanks to remove a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident to Fireman Sydney
Laurence Griffin (34), of Daceyville, was killed when 200 tons of steel collapsed while he was working on the ground floor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inquest at Culcairn Death From Accidental Injuries
After hearing evidence in connection with the death of Gayo Matesich, at Culcairn on 19th May, the District Coroner (Mr. P. H…
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