Humula Man Fatally Injured at Rail Crossing
Albert Cheney, of Humula, who jumped from the back of a fast-moving motor lorry at Rosewood on Saturday afternoon,…
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Damage Revealed As Flodd Waters Recede Stock Drowned, Crops Ruined, Fences Damaged Rose Brothers Lose 950 Sheep
AS THE FLOOD WATERS RECEDE THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE TORRENT WHICH SWEPT DOWN THE VALLEY BECOMES APPARENT. MANY CROPS HAVE BEEN RUINED, FENCING HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED, AND WHILST MOST…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unusual Fatal Accident on Hume Highway Well-Known Agronomist Killed
A well-known Wagga man was killed yesterday when he was repairing a car on a deserted stretch of a road about 20 miles…
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News of the death of Mr. Thomas Sydney Rudkin, District Agronomist of the Department of Agriculture, on Tuesday last, came as a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West Floods Worst in History Third Man Believed Drowned in Bell River Weather Bureau Warnings Include the Murrumbidgee
SYDNEY, Monday — A 21-year-old man is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Bell river at Wellington, where his father and another man lost their lives on Saturday night…
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Two thousand six hundred sheep belonging to Mr. J. Steele, of Coleambolly, near Jerilderle, perished in swirling flood waters…
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BATHURST, Tuesday — Rescue gangs worked feverishly throughout the night to extricate the body of a railway fireman pinned under the engine of a goods train derailed near Tarana, 16 miles…
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A sequel to the accident on the sand hills some months ago, when a local resident, Mr. Oram, was fatally injured as the result of a…
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LEETON, Wednesday: At 6 p.m. yesterday as Norma and Thelma Myers, of Wamoon, were cycling home along the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Freak Accident Near Mundarlo Highway Blocked When Seven Vehicles Are Involed in Collision Miraculous Escapes From Injuries In Big Smash
SEVEN vehicles were involved in one of the biggest road smashes ever known in this part o the State on Tuesday afternoon last. The Hume Highway was blocked for some considerable time and whilst the vehicles were badly damaged, some beyond repair,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Mystified by Circumstances Surrounding Fatal Accident Near Tumblong District Agronomist Dragged to Death Beneath Utility Truck
MYSTERIOUS circumstances surrounded the fatal accident which occurred on the Hume Highway three miles from Tumblong on March 28th last, when the well-known District Agronomist the late Mr. T. S. Rudkin, was found dying on the roadway. Yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Drowned in Canberra Flood
CANBERRA, Friday: Leslie Savage, 45, of West Avenue, Queanbeyan, was drowned this morning while attempting to…
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Caught in the river current at Wagga on Thursday, a Wagga youth who was driving a horse and sulky is believed to have been drowned as the result of an accident which overturned the sulky…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—A young married man, father of five children, was killed when a train crashed into a wrecked motor…
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SEVEN PEOPLE were injured when these trams collided in Alison Road, Randwick, at the peak of the home-going…
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NANTUCKET (Massachusetts), Tuesday (A.A.P.): Eighteen men from two fishing vessels are believed to have…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: At least 253 Americans died in accidents during the Easter week-end. Traffic killed 187 and miscellaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Road Accidents Over Holiday Period Lucky Escapes From Injury
ALTHOUGH there were many road accidents reported in the Gundagai District over the Easter holiday period, there was very few cases of serious injury. A car capsized near Jugiong on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Simple Accident at Cootamundra Proved Fatal Melbourne Woman Fell From Horse
Miss Olwen Roberts (20) of Camberwell, died in the Cootamundra district hospital on Sunday from cerebral haemorrhage, caused…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coolamon Man Injured
A railway employee at Coolamon yesterday suffered a probable fracture of the right leg as the result of a fall across…
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