Cars in Head-on Smash Near Yooro0nah Four People Injured Vehicles Badly Damaged
Nine persons were in two cars which collided at Yooroonah, 41 miles from Armidale, about noon on Saturday…
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Motor Fatality Wife Critically Injured SYDNEY
Ernest G. Heinrich, a business man, of Young, was killed when his car turned over on the Holmwood road four miles from Cowra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twins Drowned Wandered From Home MELBOURNE
Robert and Richard Eastwell, two-year-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. H. Eastwell, of McKenzie Creek near Horsham were drowned in a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twins Drowned Fell in Creek Near Home MELBOURNE
Robert and Richard Eastweil, twoyear-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. K. Eastweil, of McKenzie Creek, near Horsham, were drowned in a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Injured Taxi on Footpath MELBOURNE
Five persons were injured and about ten others knocked over, when a taxi-cab mounted the footpath at the corner of Collins and Swanson streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ban Motor Horns More Care and Less Accidents MELBOURNE
A ban on the use of motor horns except in emergency is being sought by the president of the Victorian Safety Council Mr A J Collocott…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Belfast Sensation Shells Strike Houses Accidental Bombardment LONDON
Five houses in Belfast were damaged and several persons narrowly escaped death during an accidental Naval bombardment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Tram Man Fatally Injured SYDNEY
John Ryan (25) Jumped on the footboard of a tram in City Road near his home yesterday, and when he turned to wave to a…
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Yesterday afternoon, at about 3.30 p.m., a Buick motor car, driven by Mr. John McDonald, of Mosman-st., Armidale and Hazelgreen, Wandsworth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Infant Killed Head-on Collision MELBOURNE
Margaret Spencer, eight months was killed, and her parents, sister and two other persons injured in a head-on collision between two motor cars near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GUYRA Car Overturns Man Admitted to Hospital Two Others Injured
When the near rear tyre of a sedan blew out on the Inverell road, 10 miles from Guyra, near Black Gully, the car broadsided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sea Losses Collision With Liner LONDON
A British steamer of 2900 tons was sunk off the south-east coast of England but all hands were rescued The Kingston Cornelius sank after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Drowned Dee Why Tragedy SYDNEY
Unnoticed by his companions with whom he was swimming. Alan Carson 16, of Concord, was drowned in a pool at Dee Why yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Dingo Trap Two Men Injured
Two of three [?] men who walker into a dingo [?] while inspecting some [?]king on a stopette at Kumba[?] Outside Dalby were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saw Mate's Body on Pool Bottom Dee Why Fatality SYDNEY
Unnoticed by his companions with whom he was swimimng, Alan Carson (16)), of Concord, was drowned in a pool at Dee Why yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daring Airman Dash Through Storm Rescue of Injured Man DARWIN
A dramatic dash through a blinding rainstorm in a moth plane was made yesterday by a Darwin airman, Roy Edwards, to bring an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner Mined Off Coast Of Scotland Lascar Dead; 13 of Crew Injured Water and Mud Spouts Into Air LONDON
The liner City of Marseilles was mined off the coast of Scotland yesterday. One Lascar was killed and 13 others of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Drowned Young Brother Rescued ADELAIDE
Neville Allison Rowe (27) was drowned when a boat in which he was fishing off Johnson Reef at Carpenter's Rock, capsized in heavy seas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jockey Injured Horses Collide MELBOURNE
The well-known jockey, W. Elliott, was riding Berapic in a training gallop at Caulfield to-day when his mount and High…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carriage Destroyed Nobody Injured; Luggage Saved PERTH
Passengers in a sleeping carriage attached to the Perth-Wiluna train wakened up yesterday morning to find the carriage on fire…
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