To-day's Accidents Thrown Over Handlebars.—
H. Coombes, aged 34, of Carrington, was riding a bicycle down a hill on the Wallsend-Lake-road to-day when he was thrown over the handlebars on…
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Accidents, 1936
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Wheeler Injured
William Truebody, 41, of Villis-street, Cessnock, employed et Aberdare Central colliery as a wheeler, was admitted to hospital yesterday with a fractured pelvis…
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A verdict for £11/10/6, with 10/ costs, and £2 witnesses' expenses, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Harry Ernest Richard West, of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fruit Train in Collision Early Mishap at Darling Harbor Sydney
A shunt of five louvred vans collided with the brake van of the southern fruit train in Darling Harbor early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lorry Overturns on Steep Hill Driver Injured Sydney
Speeding toward a 20ft. drop at the end of n blind street in Manly to-day when the brakes of his ice lorry foiled white descending a steep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Injured Smash Near Belmont Motor-car and Lorry
Four persons were injured when a motor-car collided with a motor-lorry laden with timber and building materials while overtaking it on the Belmont-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Trace of Body Manly Beach Fatality Shark Seen To-day Sydney
While setting a line at Manly this morning, a fisherman saw a huge shark, which is thought to be the one which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Killed in Smash Eighteen Others Injured All Relief Workers Brisbane
Two relief workers were killed and 18 injured, three seriously, to-day, when a motor lorry slewed across the…
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Leslie Gallagher, 22, of Cook's Hill, a mill hand, working at Karuah, sustained a fracture of the left leg when a log rolled on it yesterday. Newcastle…
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FINGERS JAMMED.—While riding on a skip at the old Toll Bar Colliery this morning, Ernest Mosby (45). of Capp-street. Telarah, had the fingers…
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The brake-[?]an of the Albury fruit train, which was badly damaged in a collision with shunting vans at Darling Harbor railway yards yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Body in Well Matong Hotel Drowning Coroner's Verdict Coolamon
The Coroner to-day concluded his inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Jack Colville, or Conway, whose body was found at the bottom of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Leg Severed Nurse in Tram Collision MELBOURNE
When a grinder tram and a passenger tram collided head-on in Wendouree, a suburb of Ballarat, this afternoon, Miss Elizabeth Clarke, 45, a nurse at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowned in Well Two Brothers in West Australia Perth
Two brothers, Arthur Archer. 9, and Alexander Archer, 6, were drowned at Wattle Grove, 10 miles from Perth, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Men Killed 18 Others Injured Truck Hits Motor-cycle Brisbane
Two men lost their lives and 18 were injured, three seriously, when a large motor-truck, which was taking a number of single relief workers to road work,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl Injured on "Slippery Dip" Awarded £50 Damages From Luna Park Sydney
Before Judge Markell at the District Court today, Phyllis Warren, by her next friend, Henry Warren, of Kensington, was awarded £50…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mail Train Accident Near Forbes Portion Derailed Passengers Have Fortunate Escape FORBES
Several trucks and passenger carriages attached to the Forbes mail train were derailed seven miles from Forbes at 8.30 a.m…
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Jack Williams, 3, of Rodgers-street, Carrington, sustained a lacerated wound to the forehead when he fell on the floor of his home yesterday. He was treated…
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RAILWAY GUARD HURT.—When he fell while alongside a coal train, which was being shunted at the Cardiff Borehole Colliery this morning…
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Robert Drew, of Chatham-road, Hamilton, a railway guard, fractured his left leg when he fell while walking beside a coal train at Cardiff-Borehole colliery…
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