The Official Casualty List. 47 Killed, 169 Injured
The official statement says that fourteen men, seventeen women and sixteen children were killed, and ninety-three men, fifty-nine women and seventeen…
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Rockhampton's Plight. River Still Rising. Another Drowning Fatality
The position at Rockhampton is increasingly serious. The town is now an island, though the Fitzroy bridge is standing the strain well. Hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Total Loss of Over Eight Hundred. Both Captains Drowned. LONDON
The Admiralty states that the losses [?]nnounced in the House of Commons on the 23rd inst two large vessels, with a [?]ss of over 700 lives) were the…
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What might have proved a very serious accident happened to Mr. A. W. Simpson last weekend. While riding after a hare in Mr. R. C…
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It is our sad duty to chronicle a gad drowning accident by which Keith Fawcett, the 8 year and 5 months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Fawcett,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Official Report. 20 Killed, 50 Injured One of the Raiders Downed. LONDON
The French official report says four enemy air squadrons crossed our lines north of Comriegne flying very high. They approached Paris from the north…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—This afternoon a motor car, driven by Martin Schneider, was proceeding uphill near Clarendon when the back tire collapsed. The car turned three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Liner Sunk in Collision. No Lives Lost. LONDON
The liner Montreal, 8644 tons, has been sunk in collision with a larger vessel, which escaped serious damage Torpedo boats were quickly on the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Casualty List. 45 Killed and 207 Injured. LONDON
A French official report says the casualties in the air raid on Paris were forty-five killed, thirty-one in the city and fourteen in the suburbs, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone at Melbourne. Great Damage. Houses Crushed to [?]. Tid[?]l Wave. Man Drowned While Fishing. Melbourne, Sunday.—Cyclonic weather
Reached Melbourne yesterday afternoon, bursting from the west. Great damage was done. The full force of the cyclone was felt in South Melbourne. The house tops suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Storm Fiend Again. Much Damage. Done at Melbourne. Boy Killed by Coilapse of a Building. A Man Drowned. MELBOURNE
A severe storm, accompanied by lighting and hail, swept Melbourne and suburbs yesterday afternoon. The full force of the gale was felt at South Melbourne,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Answering a question of Mr. Brookfield regarding accidents at Broken Hill, Mr. Fitzpatrick (Minister for Mines) said yesterday that although…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strangled by Belting. Fatality at Plour Mill
SYDNEY, Monday.—John Robertson, head miller at McCorquodale's flour mill at Parramatta, was killed while at work early this morning. It appears the wheat chute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams Mail Coach Swept Away. a Man Drowned. BRISBANE
John Denham, 60, a coachman, was drowned on Friday when a mail coach was swept away while crossing a flooded creek in the Mount Perry district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident at a Munition Factory. London
A message from Paris says the explosion of a shell, caused by a fire in a factory at Moulins, killed 10 people, injuring many others…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Peculiar Accident. Engine Shaft Goes Through Steamer Bottom. MELBOURNE
The steamer Loongana was taking aboard a spare engine shaft, weighing about two tons, when the chains slipped and the shaft fell right through the…
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A peculiar accident happened on Monday to David McIntosh, a railway lengthsman, who resides at Hendon. Mr. McIntosh was driving a sulky along a road near Hendon,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to S.s. Loongana. Shaft Crashes Through Bottom
MELBOURNE, Monday.—While a spare engine shaft weighing 20 tons was being discharged from the steamer Loongana at Melbourne to-day the hooks of the derrick…
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An unidentified elderly man was 'run over by a train at Rockdale this morning: the body was cut completely in two…
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A serious and painful accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning as Mr. John Kennedy, his wife, two children, and sister, Miss Mary Kennedy, were…
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