Drowning Fatality
From scanty particulars available there were some sad circumstances surrounding the drowning on Boxing Day of Lewis Gladstone Willock, aged just over 12 years, a…
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Five People Drowned
PERTH, Sunday. -- Owing to the parting of a life line five people were drowned at Scarborough Beach, near Perth, yesterday. Three bodies have been recovered…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--A rear end collision between trams at La Perouse resulted in six passengers receiving injuries. Although the impact was not particularly severe, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams Serious Tram Collision. Six Persons Injured. Sydney
As a tram, city-bound from La Perouse, on Saturday, stopped at a crossing, another following behind, collided with it, six persons being…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Through falling under a train at Mortlake Railway Station on Saturday night, John Alexander Forbes, 60, of Unwin's Bridge road, Undercliff, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Liner Wrecked. Fourteen Drowned. LONDON
The Liverpool liner Alondva struck the rocks off the Baltimore coast, with the result that 14 were drowned. The experienced terrible sufferings,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A double drowning accident occurred in the Manning River yesterday. Thomas Connelly, his wife and four sons and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harbor Fatality. Four Men Drowned
ADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- The outer harbor at Adelaide was the scene of a sensational boating fatality yesterday, when through the overturning of a yacht four young men,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Drowning Fatality. Two Girls Lose Their Lives. Wingham
Two girls were drowned in the Manning River, near Wingham, yesterday. While their motlier and father were fishing from a boat they were paddling…
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A boy named Lewis Willock, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Willock, of Mallanganee, was drowned in the river at Tabulam on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- A double drowning accident occurred in the Manning River yesterday, Thos. Connolly, his wife, four sons, and two daughters, started off on a boating trip…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yachting Disaster at Adelaide. Four Men Drowned. Adelaide
The outer harbor at Adelaide was the scene of a sensational boating. fatality on New Year's Day. Through the the overturning of a yacht four young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Floods. Central Queensland Inundated. Large Numbers Drowned. Sydney
There is a great flood in the Mackenzie and Nogoa Rivers, Central Queensland. The flood is the highest in history. The previous flood was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fatality. Old Man's End
SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- An old man, whose name has not yet been ascertained, was killed by a train near Doonside railway station this morning. His face was smashed almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sixty Drowned. Rockhampton Residents Warned. Big Loss of Stock and Cane. Brisbane
The Queensland floods are still as serious as ever. There is no information concerning the settlers in the country beyond Clermont, and grave…
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Quite a gloom was cast over the little village of Mallanganee on Boxing Day when it became known that Lewis Gladston Willock (Ray) had…
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LONDON, Wednesday. -- It is reported that four persons were killed and 25 injured in a collision between a tram of holiday-makers and a light engine between Edinburgh and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident in Scotland Eleven Killed; Forty Injured. London
Eleven persons were killed, and forty injured by a railway accident near Rathe station, between Edinourgh and Glasgow, when a crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clermont Floods. a Heartrending Story. Families Swept Away and Drowned. Damage to Property £100,000
Light rain commenced at midday on Wednesday at Clermont, several Other places advising a fall commencing about the same time. The rain only became heavy about…
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While Miss Florence Stratton, daughter of Mr Robert Stratton, of Taradale, 17 miles from Tumbarumba, was making tea at an open…
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