Drowned in Floods Visitor to Grafton Sydney Resident?
Superintendent Walker (Grafton) telegraphed to-day to the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mitchell) regarding the body of a man who was…
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Gun Went Off Shocking Fatality Girl Shot Dead Cairns
OWING, it is believed to having tripped on stairs at her residence Lillian Martin, is, was found dead to-day with part of her head blown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rifle Range Fatality R.A.N. Gunner Struck by Breech-bolt
HOBART, Friday.--Gunner J. R. Trevis, of H.M.A.S. Sydney, lost his life as the result of an accident on the rifle range at Sandy Bay to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man Drowned Washed Out of Saddle Wife Is Ill Forbes
A man named Stanley Stephenson, 25, while attempting to cross tho river on horseback at Wandary Station, near Forbes, yesterday, was washed out of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parachute Saves Flier After Aerial Collision 1000-Ft. Drop Wires Break His Fall Lands Unhurt
That a collision between planes thousands of feel in the air may not now mean certain death for the fliers concerned, Was proved in England yesterday when an R.A.F. officer landed unhurt by means of a parachute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Line Repaired Gangs Work Throughout Night Man Drowned Sea of Water Creeping Higher in Grafton
Large sections of the railway service of the State were disorganised, and at places completely halted by the floods, which have caused further washaways. Three hundred men, working without a stop all day yesterday and throughout the night until midday to-day, enabled the line at Illabo to be sufficiently repaired to allow the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mortale Accidente Automobilistico Brisbane, 7 Febbraio
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narrow Escape From Drowning
While riding on our bikes, my friend and I last Sunday were going down "Run-a-Water Hill," two very steep hills with a river in between (Goulburn). While going down the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Constable Drowned Conditions at Lismore LISMORE
The first fatality reported on the North Coast was the death of Constable Alpin, who was drowned while crossing a flooded creek at Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ferry Disaster 20 Believed Drowned San Francisco
Upwards of a score of persons are believed to have been drowned when the ferry steamer Peralta seemed to dip her bow, washing the people into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision Injures Girl
Josephine Wilson, 16. of Delhi Street. North Ryde, was injured when a sidecar outfit in which she was seated collided with a car at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →50 Swept Off Ferry 20 Drowned Many Injured 2000 in Panic S. Francisco Disaster San Francisco
TWENTY passengers are believed to have been drowned in San Francisco Bay, when the ferry boat Peralta, which was overcrowded at the bow, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl Injured at Rydalmere
A motor car and a motor cycle came into collision in Victoria-road, Rydalmere, yesterday afternoon, when a girl, Josephine Wilson, aged l8 years, of Delhi-road, North Ryde,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Man and Wife Drowned Kyogle
It is reported that a man named Smith and his wife have been drowned in Grady's Creek. The level country is covered for miles, and several bridges are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death Roll List of Victims Drowned
Constable Laurance Alpin, drowned in O' Grady's Creek, Grafton. Stanley Stephenson, drowned near Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Station Hand Drowned in Forbes District. Forbes
Another case of drowning was recorded here yesterday, when Stanley Stephenson (25), a station hand at Wandary Station, was washed from his saddle when attempting to cross the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fear of Ridicule Kept Boys Silent Life Saver Drowned
ALTHOUGH they thought they saw the body of a man lying in the water at Clovelly, two schoolboys did not mentions the fact to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Navvy Drowned Struck by Wall of Water Harden
The flood which washed away the railway line at Marrina on Saturday night drowned one of the navvies working on the repairs to the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Workers Swept Away Two Believed Drowned Junee
From 5 p.m. on Saturday expressed passed through here from Sydney at intervals of about 20 minutes, all being 30 hours late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Washed From Bridge Man Drowned at Bundarra Armidale
A man named Holmes, aged 53, was drowned at Bundarra yesterday morning. Holmes, who was a gardener on Leura station, was crossing a…
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