Drowned While Surfing. Brisbane
Another Easter seaside tragedy occurred on Saturday nfternoon, when a young man named Victor Thorne, while Burling near Coolangatta, got out of his depth, and disappeared…
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Mounted Constable Injured. Wagga
Constable Climtson whilst proceeding on patrol duties, on leaching the railway level crossing at Tarcutta-road, found that the gates were closed to allow a train to pass. The horse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fell From Train Returned Soldier Injured
Thomas Nicholls, aged 29, a returned soldier, of Merrylands, fell from a moving train at tho Lidcombe railway station last night, and was so badly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Persons Injured. Motor Lorry Runs Amok
Four persons were injured as the result of a motor lorry gelling out of control in Rawson Avenue, Sutherland, near the entrance to National Park, late on Sunday afternoon. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Shot Dead. Tragedy at the Show. Girl and Boy Injured
A few minutes after entering a side show at the Agricultural Ground yesterday afternoon a man shot Mrs. Julia Lopas Diaz (35), formerly living at No. 8 Whiting Street, Leichhardt,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Man Killed Two Women Injured Pinned Under Wrecked Car KATOOMBA
A shocking tragedy occurred at the foot of Mr Wllaon shortly after sunset on Sunday. A motor car, driven by Mr. Le Vilus,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Smash Man Killed Two Women Injured Pinned Down for Three Hours KATOOMBA
A party or Sydney visitors were returning from Mt. Wilson yesterday, and when nearing Mt. Victoria, the car skidded and overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singular Gun Accident. Newcastle
Albert Lewis, aged 16, living at The Junction was taken to Newcastle Hospital last nicht with a bullet wound in the stomach. He died on arrival. It is stated that Lewis, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents at Football Match
DORRIGO, Monday.--While playing in a football match on Saturday William Tall, garage proprietor, of Bellingen, who drove the Bellingen team into Dorrigo, received a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Fatality. a Man Killed; Two Women Injured
While returning from Mount Wilson to Mount Victoria on Monday evening a new Studebaker motor car overturned at the foot of Mount Wilson. The driver, Mr. Le Vitns,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Jockeys Injured
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--P. Robertson, the Victorian jockey, and the rider of Request in the Steeplechase at Deloraine (Tas.) races, had an arm broken through the horse falling, and G. Cail, rider of Flash Bob, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Jockey Injured. An Accident at the Show
While schooling a horse over a sod wall at the Sydney Show Grounds on Wednesday morning a jockey named Roy McCutchie fell from the saddle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Fatality. Car Over Embankment
KATOOMBA, Tuesday.--A sensational motorcar accident occurred at Mount Wilson shortly after dark on Sunday night. Mr. Ernest le Vitus, of the Viavi Health…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Men Drowned. a Boating Tragedy
A party of nine left Bald Hills, a suburb of Brisbane, for the Brible Passage in a launch on Friday last. Upon arrival in the passage they anchored…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Motoring Fatality. Pinned for Three Hours Under a Car
A party of Sydney visitors were returning to Katoomba (N.S.W.) from Mt. Wilson on Monday last, and when nearing Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the Day From the Four Quarters Misadventures. a Shocking Railway Fatality Near. Penrith. Two Boys Killed
A shocking railway fatality occurred near Pearith (N.S.W.) on Thursday last. There boys, named Jack Stanley Player, Gordon Player, and Mack…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Maize Cargo Lost. a Tweed River Accident
The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's drogher Cadgen Capsized at its moorings at Murwillumbah (N.S.W.) on Sunday night, and 300 bags of maize…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Singular Gun Accident. Fatal Attempt to Stop a Fight
A boy named Albert Corr, of Newcastle, was fatally shot on Saturday last. He, with a number of other boys, was camping at the lagoon near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidentally Shot
TUMBARUMBA, Tuesday.--John Ross (16) was accidentally shot with it pea-rifle on Friday. The bullet entered near the mouth, and came out at the back of the neck. Ross is in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Collided with Tram Motor Cyclist Injured
In Darling-street, near Montague-street, Balmain this morning, John Andrews, aged 20, a motor mechanic, of Addison-road, Marrickville, was…
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