Six Injured Mine Winding Engine It "Went Amiss"
By a strange coincidence, the new winding engine at Elrington colliery, which figured prominently in a court action at Cessnock yesterday, failed…
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Accidents, 1931
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Rathmines Painful Accident
While running in the yard of Mr. Gould's home with other boys, Oscar Smith (Sydney), aged 13, met with a painful accident. While being chased by his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Elrington Colliery Accident to the Cage
The electric winding engine at Elrington Colliery, which was the subject of a test case at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, gained further notice yesterday…
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Fish-hook in Boy's Jaw.— A fishing expedition on the part of Jas, Edwards, a youngster of eight years, who with his parents, was camping…
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Victor McKenzie, 38, of Lewis-street Punchbowl North, employed as a drover, fell at Farley and injured his right leg, Maitland Ambulance ion rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Six Injured Yatala Prison Explosion ADELAIDE
An explosion in a quarry at Yatala Prison, late this afternoon, caused injury to a guard and five prisoners. The guard was placed in charge in a hole where a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seven Drowned Indian Launch Capsizes Overtaken by Squall Suva, January 20
Overtaken by a squall in Viti Levu Bay, the Indian launch, Sitaram, with 28 passengers, going from Suva to Lautoka, capsized. Seven were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Injured Smash Near Mittagong Car Goes Over Embankment Mittagong
Five persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor ear ill which they were travelling to Sydney crashed through a fence and fell over a 50ft embankment at…
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Fall of Cool.—J. W. Jarrett, aged 51, of Fleet-street, New Lambton, a miner employed at Burwood Colliery, suffered a lacerated wound to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Fatality MELBOURNE
When a baby car overturned about [?]x miles from Ballarat to-day, Mr. charles James Merfield was killed, and his son, Mr. pheodore Merfield, 28…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Injured Hand Dempsey in Hospital New York
Jack Dempsey entered hospital to-day for treatment of an infection in the left hand. A growth from a small cut on the fourth linger developed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Men Dead Result of Yatala Explosion Three Seriously Injured Adelaide
Two deaths have occurred as a result of injuries received by the premature explosion of a blasting charge in a quarly at the Yatala Labour Prison yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Death Follows Accident Goulburn
After lingering for nearly three weeks from a fractured skull and other injuries. James Farrell, aged 42, died in the Goulburn District Hospital last night. Farrell…
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As the result of a fall of stone at Bur-wood colliery, a miner—J. W. Jarrett, 57, of Fleet-street. New Lambton—had his right foot injured yesterday…
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A sulky accident happened just above the Nelson-street, railway crossing yesterday afternoon. Seated in the sulky, one fitted with small wheels, were a man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Giant Flying-Boat's Accident
First picture showing the burned wing of the Dornier Do.X, the world's largest flying-boat which caught fire near lisbon, while on its trip to America. The fire was caused by a faulty electr[?] connection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by Train Railwayman Killed Hamilton Fatality
Struck by a train near Hamilton station at 12.58 p.m. yesterday, William Young, 32, of Jones-street, Adamstown, was killed. Young was a bridge labourer, but he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Six Injured Lorry Overturns SYDNEY
In a collision between a motor car and a motor lorry at Cow Pasture road, three miles north from Narellan last night, a lorry rolled over three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dempsey's Hand Injured New York, January 22
Jack Dempsey has entered a polyclinic hospital for the treatment of an infection of his left hand, resulting from a small cut on the fourth finger, which developed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →50 DROWNED Big Storm in Black Sea Many Vessels Wrecked Bucharest, January 22
In a terrific storm in the Back Sea, the Russian steamer Zavaslia foundered, and 36 of her crew and 14 passengers were drowned…
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