Floods in England. Canadian Soldier Drowned
LONDON, Wednesday.--The greatest floods known for 20 years are being experienced in the Thames Valley, Oxford is surrounded by water. Thousands…
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Fatal Train Smash. Four Killed, Nine Injured
KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--Further particulars concerning the accident on the transcontinental railway line on Tuesday, when four men were killed and nine others injured, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in England. Cathedral Flooded. Canadian Soldier Drowned. London, Jan. 6
The greatest floods for twenty years have occurred in the valley of the Thames. Considerable damage has been done by floods in the fen country and in Somerset. Salisbury…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cycle Fatality. the Blue Mountain Smash. Evidence at the Inquest. Katoomba
An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Clarence Bembrick, 22, son of Alderman Bembrick, who was killed in a motor oclitsion on the Bathurst-road last saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatal Panic. Fire on Underground Railway. One Person Killed. Two Hundred Injured. New York, Wednesday Night
There was sensational occurrence, which might have had even more serious results, on the underground railway to-day. The whole of the system was disorganised by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Accident. Brakesman Killed at Belmore. Top of Head Cut Off
Another shocking railway accident occurred near Belmore this morning, when James Anderson, [?], a brakesman, was run down and killed instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Revolver Accident. Wollongong
Last night Harvey Hargrave, son of Constable Hargrave, of Figtree, met with a painful shooting accident. He was out walking with his father, and was carrying a revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shunter Killed. Accident at Hornsby
John Ryan, about 26 years of age, a shunter, was killed by a train during shunting operations at Hornsby Junction about 10.30 o'clock last night. It is not known…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Revolver Accident
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--Last night, Harvey Hargrave, bod of Constable Hargrave, of Figtree, was removing a revolver from his hip trousers pocket, when It went off. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatalities and Accidents a Painter Killed
William Montgomery (56), a painter, was working on a building in Princes. Street, city, yesterday afternoon, when he slipped off a ladder, and fell to the footway 40ft, below. He…
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Leslie Garnam, aged 20, was drowned in the Woronora River, near Sutherland, on Friday last. Garnam, who resided at Arncliffe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Rockhampton Fatality
George Pedley, aged twenty-seven years, was with a small party of men in a motor boat excursion up the Fitroy River (Q) on Saturday morning. When the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in the Harbour
The Acting City Coroner on Wednesday inquired into the cause of death of William Robert Thom, 27, who jumped off a vessel and was drowned in the harbour last Monday. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Injured Child's Death
William David Chambers, 14 months old, who was run over by a lorry in Botany Street, Redfern, on Wednesday, receiving injuries which necessitated the amputation of one leg…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Peculiar Fatality. a Detonator Explosion
A man named Blandford in North Sydney, was driving a nail into a detonator to act as a spindle for a toy windmill when it exploded, blowing two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mishap at Gladstone. Two Men Drowned
On Friday night at Gladstone (Q.) two men from the steamer Cooma—William A. Fouracres a native of London, and a resident or Sydney, and William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Brothers Drowned. In the Dumgroeg River
Two brothers, John and James Ryan, were drowned at Texas (Q.), on Tuesday while attempting to swim across the river. One of the men was carried down in the district for some time: they hailed from the Armidalc district (N.S.W.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Tram Smash. Four Passengers Injured
A tram travelling at a high rate of speed in St. Peter's, Sydney, unaccountably left the rails and crashed into an electric current-bearing standard, with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Premature Explosion. Two Quarrymen Injured
The premature explosion of a blasting charge at the Patuahi quarry, Gisborne (N.Z.) threw two men, Green and Bugden, down the face of the quarry, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Soldier's Death. Drowned While Home on Leave
On Saturday afternoon George Renton twenty-two years of age, a son of Mr. W. G. Renton, of Stockyard Creek, and a member of the Expeditionary Force, was…
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