Express Trains Collide. Three Killed, Twenty Injured
The express from St. Pancras collided with a landslide, 15 miles from Earl Isle. Two carriages were smashed. Three were killed and 20 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents
Accidents, 1918
304 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 2 of 16
British Steamer Sunk OVER 700 Drowned. London
In the House of Commons Mr. MacNanmra stated that as the result of the sinking of two British steamers in the Mediterranean, 708 persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tidal Wave and Cyclone Damage at Mackay. Many Vessels Sunk. Fourteen Drowned. Hundreds Homeless. BRISBANE
Port Mackay (Queensland) was struck by a cyclone and tidal wave and flood. Several vessels were sunk Hundreds of people are homeless. Fourteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Highest Floods on Record Fitzroy Breaks Its Banks. Water 2 Feet Over 1896 Flood Mark. Rockhampton Plunged into Darkness. Motar Boats in Main Streets. Nine Persons Drowned. 100 Families Besiege Police Office. 23 Inches of Rain Registered. Railway Line 15 Fect Under Water. Huge Dam at Gradsfone Bursts. 100 Millions of Gallons of Water Lost
According to a special correspondent of the Brisbane "Daily Mail," Rockhampton presents a sorry and dismal spectacle. The hopes that were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motors Collide. Two Persons Injured. MELBOURNE
A sensational motor accident occurred at Footscray this afternoon. Clifford Sydney Hiddlestone, a jeweller, 32, of St. Kilda, Brighton, and Linda Steele,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Accident. Christchurch, N.Z.
A motor car containing Mr. Ashworth, his wife and their three daughters, crashed into a train at the Styx level crossing, Christchurch, yesterday, Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Surfing Fatality. Seamen Drowned at Coogee. SYDNEY
K. B. Lindwall, 25, a seaman and a native, of Sweden, was drowned af Coogee to-day. In company with another Swede, A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision with Tram. Melbourne
A char-a-bane collided with the dummy of a tram-car on the St. Kilda Esplanade late last night. The tram was sent off the rails and all traffic was hung…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Air Raid Casualties Forty-seven Killed; 222 INJURED
An official message says that in last night's air raid 14 men, 17 women, and 16 children were killed, while 93 men 59 women and 70 children were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkable Assault. Attempt to Kill Whole Family. Mother and Children Injured
An attempt to kill a whole family appears to have been made at an early hour on Wednesday morning, in a little, ramshackle house situated in the bush…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Torpedoed Transports. Many Nurses Drowned. Submarined Within Sight of Land. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON
The "Daily News" says that a nurse aboard the Arragon says that the vessel was submarined within sight of land. It was a shaky business lowering the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. Paris Air Raid Twenty Killed, Fifty Injured. One Enemy Machine Downed. (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON
a French official message says: Four enemy air squadrons crossed our lines in North Compiegne, flying at the highest altitude owing to the clearness or the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Drowned at Botany. Touches Live Wire and Falls off Pier
Hubert Skinner, 14, was playing with some other boys under the Botany pier, when he remarked to his companions, 'Come on, we will get hold of this pipe."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Air Raids 68 KILLED, 183 Injured. Condon
The Press Bureau reports that [?] day's air raid casualties in all districts were killed 58, injured 173, of whom 31 were killed and 51 injured in one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Mining Accidents
Answering the question of Mr. Brookield's regarding accidents at Broken Hill, Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick (Minister for Mines) said yesterday that although…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peculiar Burning Accident
John Hense, who is employed as a carier by the firm of Collins, Ltd., met with a peculiar, but nevertheless painful, accident on Saturday night. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Accident. Narrabri
A man, named John Hense; employed as a carter at Collins and Co., was reading in bed with a hurricane lamp on his chest on Saturday night last. In this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Fatality. Sydney
A shocking fatality occurred near Moruya to-day, when Mrs. McCartney Noake, wife of the Church of England vector, was killed. The car, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carrier Killed. Fatality Near Armidale. ARMIDALE
A shocking fatality occurred on the Rockvale, Road near Armidale, last night. Jas. Miller, jun, a grazier and carrier, was driving a bullock team…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Too Many Motor Accidents. Coroner's, Comments
In returning a verdict of accidental death in the case of a child, who had been knocked down by a motor car, the acting-coroner remarked that it was…
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