Street Accidents. 206 Persons Killed. In the Metropolis
Figures issued by the Government Statistician (Mr. Waites) yesterday indicate the heavy loss of life that is occurring through street accidents…
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Battalions of Dead Toll of Street Accidents Britain's Record How Children Suffer London
NEARLY 10,000 children, of school age only, are injured--many of them fatally--every year in London, About 50,000 people of all ages are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Vehicles Cause 157 DEATHS Over 8000 Involved in Accidents Escape Injury Official Record
One hundred and fifty-seven of the 200 fatal accidents in Sydney last year were caused by motor vehicles. During the same period…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Accidents. Three Persons Injured. Car and Cycle Collide
Three people who were riding on a motor cycle and side car were seriously injured last night, when a motor car came into collision with the cycle, throwing it off the roadway…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Commendation's Narrow Escape Fell into Ditch: Saved from Drowning
Mr. W. H. Gaisford nearly lost Commendation a few days ago. Since he returned from Australia, the gelding has been running out in a paddock on his owner's station, and the other day he was discovered at feeding time lying on his back in a ditch, and unable to rise. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured by Motors Several Mishaps
Edward Farrugla, 14. of Silver St., Marrickville, a Pacific Cable Co. messenger was knocked down by a motor lorry in Day Street, City. yesderday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jump Prom Train Girl Badly Injured
WHEN Peggy Williams, 14. of Lindfield-avenue, Lindfield, jumped from a train at Chatswood to-day, she was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country News Sheep Drowned Fences Washed Away West Wyalong
Additional information has been received regarding the floods at Yalgogrin North district. At the Old Caroon homestead, where the Thompson…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →175 Are Injured Munich Ceremony Grandstand Collapses Munich
WHEN a carnival stand collapsed here to-day. 175 people were injured. A crowd of 100.000 had gathered to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Law Report. Full Court. (Before Sir Phillp Street, C.J., Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice Ferguson.) a Greengrocer Injured. Hammer v Hoffnung and Co., Ltd
The defendants in an action tried before Mr. Justice James and a jury in September last appealed from a verdict of the jury awarding £552 damages for alleged negligence…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Accident on Trawler
While the trawler Beryl was at a distant fishing ground on Monday afternoon, John Smith. 35. of 11 Boroma Street. Five Dock, had his right arm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dentist injured
William McQueen, aged 65, dentist, of Glebe-road, Glebe, was knocked down by a motor cycle at the corner of Bathurst and Castlereagh streets, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two Drowned Toowoomba
A young man, Thos. Ronald Norris, of Stanmore, Ranger's Bridge, was swimming across the billabong at Dalby in company with another young…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Third Inquiry Tahiti-greycliffe Collision
The Superintendent of the State Navigation Department, Captain J. E. Morris, will preside at an inquiry, under pilotage regulations, into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Child Drowned. Fell Into Waterhole
While temporarily out of his mother's sight Harold Brown, a toddler, 19 months old, made his way to a waterhole about 50 yards from his home at Quarry-road, Dundas, yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rector's Motor in P'matta Fatality
"I WAS coming from springwood to attend a wedding at parramatta. A boy ran from behind a stationary car and before I had time to pull up my car…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Electrician Injured. Grasps Live Wire
Bernard Bulcock (32), au electrician of Flower-street, Maro[?], was in a desperat[?] plight yesterday when [?]e accidentally graspe[?] a live electric wire whilst working almost a[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Jump From Train. Girl Badly Injured
In a frantic effort to avoid being late for school, Poggy Williams, 13, of Lindfield-avenue, [?]dfield, sprang from a train at the Chatswood railway station yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Launch on Fire. Man Almost Drowned. Courageous Rescue
When the motor launch from which they were fishing in the harbour on the western side of Garden Island [?] fire at 7.30 o'clock last night, the flames drove the two…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Boy Drowned. at Stockton Beach. in Strong'undertow. Newcastle
Stockton Beach was the scene of another drowning this afternoon when William Keith Wallace, 7 years of age, was carried out by the strong undertow which sweeps the…
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