Youth Drowned
Sydney, Tuesday.--Frederick Diamond (17) was drowned while swimming with other members of a picnic party in the Nepean river, near…
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Drowning Feared Tragic Picnic Outing
CLIFTON, Monday.--Stewart Kelvin Anderson (23), a garage proprietor,, is believed to have been drowned in the Condamine River on Sunday afternoon…
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George Matthews (53), of Cruick-shank-street, Bellbird, and his son, Stanley (23), were admitted to Cess-nock Hospital last night suffering…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--Three occupants of a sedan car had narrow escapes from serious injury in a collision in Eagle Street this morning. Their…
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In a head-on collision between a motor car and a motor lorry at Avalon to-day Robert Melahan (17), of Narrabeen, was critically injured,…
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The body of James Portbury (40), the caretaker of a launch moored in the Brisbane River, was found floating in the vicinity of the launch this…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday:- What appears to have been a double tragedy was revealed to-day, when the police recovered the body of James Torpbury…
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LONDON, Tuesday:- In the densest fog in recent memory, covering 8,000 square miles, an electric train on the…
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When leaving the Austral Brick Company's works at St. Peters this afternoon a number of recently-engaged employees were attacked by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many People Drowned California Disaster Worst Flood for 57 YEARS Motorists Trapped in Surging Torrents
VANCOUVER, Monday. Twenty-four persons lost their lives in Southern California as a result of the worst storm since weather reports were inaugurated from the area 57 years ago. For 36 hours rain fell…
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After a day of sweltering heat a violent thunderstorm passed over the district about 5.30 p.m. on Monday. Heavy rain accompanied by hail and…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday:-- The body of the first victim recovered from Hamilton Reach of the Brisbane River yesterday has been…
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BERLIN, Thursday.--The second tragic collision with a wireless mast occurred to-day when a machine landed in a fog at Brunswick and struck…
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Crushed between two trams at Bondi to-night, Alan Waters, a fourteen-year-old newsboy, of Bondi, had his left leg badly crushed, necessitating its…
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Despite the fact that there were a number of other bathers in the pool, Ke[?]th McNamara (9), of Sutherland, was drowned in the Cronulla…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday:- While running across the line from one platform to another, Allan Wilkinson (20), a porter at Kensington, was critically…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday:- A woman, aged 35, was found lying on the railway line between West Footscray and Tottenham, suffering a…
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Misfortune overtook a party of ten aboriginals returning by car from Armidale to Woolbrook last week after attending the annual aboriginals'…
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The Rev. Father Smith, assistant at Kempsey parish, met with a very serious accident when his sedan car overturned on Gladstone road, near…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--While a number of boys were shooting rabbits at Campbelltown last night the gun carried by one' of them exploded, the…
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