Lift Accident. Sydney
Three men were injured in a lift accident at the Government Printing. Office this afternoon, owing to one of the lifts falling a distance of 25…
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Steamers Collide. 2000 Persons Drowned. Sydney
A picnic steamer carrying 2500 passengers collided with another steamer at Chicago and capsized One thousand persons were drowned…
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yesterday afternoon a young man, named James Fitzgerald, of the firm of Sims and Fitzgerald, coachbuilders, sustained serious injuries as a result of a…
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A pinched finger causes a child most acute, pain at the time, although in simple cases it is quickly forgotten. The best remedy is to hold the finger in a bowl, or cup of hot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railway Collision, at Flinders Street Station. Sixteen Persons Injured
When a Port Melbourne train, carrying about 50 passengers, was drawing out of Flinders-street station at 8 p.m. on Tuesday it collided with an engine,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harbor Fatality. Steward Drowned. Sydney
John Highland, aged 45 years, a steward on the steamer Star, of England, fell into the harbor between the vessel and the wharf at Darling Island, late…
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Every mother knows the frequency with which her children come home with a cut foot, after a bare-foot scamper, and although she may be inclined to scold the child for its…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Zeppelin Air Raid. Six Killed, 23 Injured. Houses Suffer Severely. London
"Two Zeppelins." announces the Admiralty, "visited the cast coast last night between 9.30 and 11.45, dropping incendiary explosives and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Gunners. Drowned on Barbarcssa. Athens
The Barbarossa was being used as a Monitor in the Dardanelles and had aboard all the Breslau German gunners, the majority of whom were…
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Ten civilians were killed and 36 injured. A church and some houses were damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Drowned in River. Sydney
Pte C. M. Smith fell into the river at Liverpool inst night and was drowned he had been in camp about two months…
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Six hundred Turks were drowned in the sinking of the Barred Din Barbarossa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inventors’ Lucky Accidents
How to make starch from corn (maize) was discovered accidentally by Thomas Kingsford, a mechanic. One day he threwa mess of .corn meal…
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Miss Molly Link, daughter of Mr J. Selby Link, Shire Engineer, got her foot badly crushed whilst playing about the Shire road roller on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to a Lockhart Boy
Whilst playing in the school of the Wagga High School, Master Reg Hodgson, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. J. Hodgson, had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality at Wagga. Man Cut Down by Train. Body Found on Railway Line
At about 9 o'clock last night Mr. F. Thompson, railway night officer at Wagga railway station, heard groans coming from the railway line some 50…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidentally Shot. SYDNEY
Christopher Van Der Heyde, age 32, a member of the firm of Hansen & Heyde, indent agents, Castlereagh Street, whilst examining an automatic…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sudden Death and Accident. Mr. C. Purcell and His Son
ON Wednesday last Dr. Finley, of Adelong was telephoned for to attend Mr. Charles Purcell, the well known grazier of Wondalgs,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Gobarralong. Mr. Polsen Loses a Finger
A VERY painful accident happened in a simple way on Thursday afternoon to Mr. Niel Polsen at Gobarralong He was ploughing to sow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on Thames. Sixteen Lives Lost. London
Acting collided with a boat containing 20 naval cadets on the Thames. The craft was sunk and 16 cadets were drowned…
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