Fatal Driving Accident. Impaled on a Shaft. WEST MATTLAND,Wednesday
A young man named Melmeth, while driving a sulky, collided with another coming in the opposite direction. Melmeth was impaled on the shaft, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents, 1918
556 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 28
Drowning Cases
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Robert Gould, aged 8, and Clifford Graham, aged 11, both rosiding at Banksia, in company with two other boys, went swimming in Cook's River, near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident
Mr. D. Grannatelli, in charge of Mr. A. R. Knowles' drogher, met with an accident yesterday morning while loading logs at Bungalwalbyn Creek, by one rolilng on his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narrow Escape From Drowning
What might have ended in a very sad drawning fatality last Tuesday evening in the vieinity of the baths at North. Creek was fortunately obviated by the presence of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensational Motor Accident. Sydney
A motor driver, endeavoring to avoid a collision with a tram at Woollahra last night, met with a sensational accident, the occupants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Driving Accident
Mr. J. Hickey, a resident of Charleville (Q.), was returning from Adavale in a buggy, and when between Adavale and Langlo crossing the vehicle capsized. When…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raiway Accident in England. Six Killed Twenty Injured. LONDON
The Midland Express from London ran into a landslide at Lazonby, with the result that the engine was overturned and carriages telescoped. Six were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mysterious Explosion. Two Men Injured. SYDNEY
As a result of a mysterious explosion at Long Reef, near Manly, Sydney, on Saturday night, two men were seriously injured, one being probably blinded. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Sunday.—An express train from St. Pancras collided with a land slide fifteen miles from Carlisle. Two carriages were smashed, three persons being killed and 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Drowning Accident
A very sad drowning accident occurred at Ballina on Wednesday afternoon, where by a fine girl, Marion Blanchfield, 9 years of age, the adopted daughter of Mr. and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Submarine Strife. British Steamers Sunk. Seven Hundred Persons Drowned. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. J. T. Macnamara (Secretary to the Admiralty) stated that as the result of the sinking of two British steamers in the Mediterranean 703…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Cyclone. Pears for Mackay. Town Still Isolated. Six Persons Drowned at Rockhampton. BRISBANE
Definite news regarding the fate of Mackay is anxiously awaited. It is known that the town was struck by the full force of the cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irish Situation. Hopes of Settlement. Two British Steamers Sunk. Seven Hundred Persons Drowned, Strikes in Austria. the Naval Action. Further Details. Dardanelles Operations. (Reuter.)
LONDON, Wednesday.—The Admiralty supplies details, of the British engagement with the Goeben and Breslau. The report shows that our destroyer Lizard was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision with Tramcar
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A charabanc collided with a dummy tramear on the St. Kilda Esplanade last night. The tram was sent off the rails and all traffic was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned at Coogee
SYDNEY, Sunday.—K. R. Lindwall, 25, seaman, and a native of Sweden, was drowned at Coogee to-day. In company with another Swede named A. H. van de Geer he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensational Motor Accident
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A sensational o[?]otor accident occurred at Footscray this afternoon. Clifford Sydney Hiddlestone, a jeweller, 32, of St. Kilda-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American General Injured. New York
A message from Washington announces that General Wood (General Pershing's Chief of Staff) has been injured by an explosion in France…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Motor Car Fatality. Five Years Old Boy Killed. SYDNEY
Alexander Weidmann, five years old, was knocked down by a motor in Oxford Street, this afternoon and died a few minutes later. The boy,with his sister,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Peculiar Accident
A little boy named Horn, of Wee waa, was admitted into the Narrabri Hospital a couple of weeks ago, and a history of the case provides…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Double Drowning Case. a Rescuer Loses His Life
HOBART, Wednesday.—A double drowning case occurred at Strahan, Tasmania. Alice James, a single woman (24), and Mrs. Eberle were in a boat near the dock when it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →