Collision in the Air
A Vienna message says an Austrian airman ascended at Przemysl in au endeavor to carry despatches to headquarters. Russian aeroplanes gave chase, and the…
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Woman Drowned. Perth
Mrs. Cecilia Chapman, aged 27, a visitor from Norseman, was washed off the rocks at Esperance yesterday and drowned. Her husband and some others had a narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bather Seriously Injured
Roy Carmen (23), a painter, living in Greens Road, Paddington, struck the bottom while diving in shallow water at the Rushcutters Bay baths. He was pulled out of the water…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Soldier Injured
Trooper Norman Veness, a son of Mr. W. Veness, of Manilla, according to news received from Egypt, fell off one of the Pyramids and sustained serious injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Drowned at Newcastle. Newcastle
George Cooper, an able seaman on the steamer Willesdon, was coming down the gangway on that vessel to-day when he slipped and fell into the water. Attempts at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Airmen Killed. Australian Drowned in North Sea. London
The "Daily Chronicle" correspondent at Dunkirk says that Major Raleign and Captain Roo[?], who participated in the air raid on Zeebrugge, encountered a fog on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Smash. Train Climbs Platform. Damage at Central Station. Postal Employee Injured
A sensational smash occurred at the Central Railway Station this afternoon. An empty passenger train smashed through on to the main assembling platform,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinaman Badly Injured. Beaten by Footpads. His Money Missed After All. an Ill-fated Holiday
Two footpads viciously attacked a Chinaman, Wong Kay, in broad daylight in the city yesterday, and left him lying in the gutter unconscious, with his spine injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Accident
It is not only "over the sticks" or during the seatter into the straight, or when going for his life for the winning post in the ruck that a jockster is likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatalities and Accidents a Severe Fall
Reese Barker (35), an electrician, living in Cooper Street, Surry Hills, fell while working about 20 feet above the state at the Little Theatre, Castlereagh Street. He suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Diving Fatality
Thomas Royden Wynyard, barman, (23). lately residing at Green's Road, Paddington, who struck his head while, diving in Rushcutters' Bay on Tuesday morning, died yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowned While Swimming
While swimming in the Parramatta River with a number of lads this morning, Norman Fisher Yabsley, 15, who lived in Argyle-street. Parramatta. was drowned. His body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Drowned. Moruya
At Narooma on Monday, two sisters, named Hollingdale, and their brother were bathing, when the girls got into difficulties. The brother succeeded in rescuing the youngest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drowned in Parramatta River
Norman Fisher Yabaley, 16, living in [?]street, Parramatta, was swimming in the Parramatta River this afternoon with a number of other [?], when he suddenly sank and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatalities and Accidents Injured at Central Station
An empty passenger train was pulling in to No. 7 platform at the Central Station yesterday afternoon, when the brakes failed,causing it to over-run and strike the dead-end. Little…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bathing Fatality at Thirroul. Bulli
No trace of the body of Alfred Guest, who was drowned on Sunday last on Thirroul beach, has been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Express in Collision Sheep Truck Smashed
At or near Harden on Friday morning last the Melbourne express ran Into a heavy sheep truck and smashed it into a number of small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Move Injured Persons
An attempt to move accidentally Injured persons will often increa'sg the Injury unless the persons who endeavour to do this understand a little about the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Tunnel Smash Guard Johnson Injured
An engine that, nad taken a train of trucks from Hawkesbury to Cowan on Friday morning last was allowed to run back to Hawkesbury down…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Smash. Accident at the Central Station
A number of empty carriages, which were being backed into No. 7 platform at the Contral Railway Station yesterday afternoon, overran their distance, and crashed into the…
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