500 Drowned When Ship Sinks Shanghai
Between 400 and 500 of the vessel’s 1000 passengers are reported to have been drowned when the wooden Chinese ship Chikiang sank early on January 10 at the…
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400 PASSENGERS drowned [?] Steamer Strikes Mine London
It is reported that 400 out of [?] passengers aboard the steamer Chimmara which was on its way to Pireus (Greece) were drowned when it struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Albury Man Killed When Truck Overturns Man and Two Young Women Are Injured
Geoffrey Clive Smithenbecker, aged 25, of Macaulay street, Albury, was killed instantly late on Saturday evening when a utility truck he was driving left the road and crashed into a tree two miles from Tawonga…
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A [?]2-year-old Wodonga man, Alfred Jackson, of Havelock st., received head injuries yesterday when be was hit on the head by a crank handle while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man killed when truck overturns Two-young Women Injured
Geoffrey Clive Smithenbecker, aged 25, of Macaulay street, Albury, was killed instantly late on Saturday evening when a utility…
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On Sunday, while 'Miss C. Brindley was passing Phibbs' Factory at the corner of Row street and Deniliquin road on a bicycle, she tried to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Drowned in Swimming Pool KATOOMBA
Marmaduke Masterton, aged [?] of Epping, was drowned today in Blackheath swimming pool. Two youths [?] into the pool and [?]arched when…
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John Muldowney, aged 64, of Marrickville, was killed and his son, [?] Muldowney, junr, aged 28, was seriously injured when the truck the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cruiser Held Responsible for Tragic Collision London
An Admiralty Court today found that the British cruiser, Curacao, was responsible for the collision with the giant liner, Queen Mary, off the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Brothers Drowned Tragedy at The Rock
Two brothers, David McGrath, aged 26, and Hugh McGrath, aged 30. were drowned in a dam on their father’s property, “Warrawong,” two miles…
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Two brothers were drowned in a dam on a property two and a half miles from The Rock on Tuesday night…
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Herbert Edwin Willis, aged 20 married, of Copmanhurst, was drowned in the Clarence River last night. He, with five others, was thrown…
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A most painful accident occurred yesterday about 2.30 p.m. at me Lawson Syphon when Mr. C. Kelly was cranking one of the Water Commission cars…
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Ronald Smith, aged 9. of Leichhardt, was drowned in Enfield swimming pool today. Attempts at artificial respiration by bathers, manager and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Die in Road Accidents, Youth Drowned SYDNEY
Three persons were killed and several injured since lost night, and a man was drowned. He was John Joseph [?] of Lakemba,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Washed Off Rocks and Drowned Wollongong
John Joseph Everett, aged 40, plasterer, Lakemba, was drowned in the mouth of Lake Illawarra early this morning when he was washed from the rocks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Mother Fatally Shot Accident Near Wagga
Mrs. [?] Madeline Day, aged 18, of 18 Edward st., West Wagga, was fatally shot when a trifle exploded at the Marong picnic ground, 7…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Boy Drowned Melbourne
A 10-year-old boy, Barry Elevens , of street, North Melbourne, wis found drowned in the sea off Point Ormond this afternoon. A member of the Elwood…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tiny Tot Drowned in Dam Tragedy at Balldale
A 21-year-old child, John McIvor Wilson, was drowned in a dam at “Bellevue”, the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life of Near Drowned Youth Saved SYDNEY
After being submerged in Narrabeen Lakes for about four minutes today, Kenneth Filewood, aged 18, of Cronulla, responded to carbogen gas…
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