Drowned Stock Difficult Rescue Work in Queensland
Following torrential rain in the Bowen district, Queensland, Pellican Creek overflowed its banks, and many cattle and horses were drowned…
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Father and Son Drowned in River. Brisbane
Joseph William Byrne, s, was walking along the footway of the Fitzroy Bridge, Rockhampton, to-night, accompanied by his parents, when he stumbled and fell into the river. His…
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BROOME (W.A.), Thursday.--During a heavy thunderstorm this afternoon several nurse-girls with babies in perambulators, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Falls Ninety Feet But Not Seriously Injured
Although he fell about 90 feet from the top of a new silo to the bottom, Valentine Smith, 25, of Tebbutt-street, Leichhardt, was not seriously injured yesterday. He was working…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Accidents of the Week. Boy Falls From Train
While attempting to alight from an electric train at Arncliffe Railway Station last night, at about 6 o'clock, Charles Bridge, aged 16½ years, of Hirst…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--In a desperate attempt to avoid a collision with a train at the Corio level-crossing last night, Robert Souter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. News in Brief Motor Fatality
Muriel Helen Fishwick (17), of Roseville, was killed when a motor car in which she was a passenger overturned near Kiama at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning in Creek on S. Coast May Be Burwood Man Wollongong
Walking along the bank of Mullet Creek, near Brownsville, to-day, Norman, Clark discovered the body of a man floating on the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Amazing Train Accident Near the Strathfield Railway Station Late Yesterday Afternoon
Of the 600 passengers travelling by this Liverpool-bound train, only one was injured when points near the station were fouled. Two sections of the train ran on to parallel sets of lines, and the carriage shown above was dragged over the permanent way between them. This picture shows the acute angle at which a carriage came to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Carriage Leaves Rails. Dragged Between Divided Train. Thrilling Accident at Strathfield
One of the most remarkable railway accidents in the history of the State occurred at Strathfield yesterday evening, when, through fouling the points, an electric train divided into two sections and the carriage which linked them was dragged 150 yards along the permanent way. Only one of the…
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When two curs collided in Ramsgate Avenue, Ramsgate, yesterday. Mrs. A. Pemberton, wife of the proprietor of the Ramsgate Baths…
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Two drivers had miraculous escapes from death to-day in a collision between a motor car and motor lorry in Oxford-street near Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Accidents. Collision on Murwillumbahroad. Tweed Heads
When two motor cars collided on the Murwillumbah-road, near Boyd's Bay, five persons were injured. Mr. W. Bailey was driving Mr. W. Skinner's car, with four…
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Ernest Nutt, 20, Press photographer, residing at Irrora-street, Croydon, slipped from a rock and fell into 40 feet of water in Lake Parramatta yesterday…
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Olga Whiteman, 9 years, was swimming in the Macquarie River at Bathurst this afternoon, when she got out of her depth and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Family Tragedy. Man Dead, Wife Injured. BRISBANE
A message from Townsville states that at Hermit Park early this morning, Norman Hearn, after attacking his wife by striking her on the head with a hammer, committed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three Car Deaths; Man and Youth Wollongong & Victoria Five Injured Melbourne
Two deaths occurred in motor accidents to-day. One victim was a youth of 17 and the other a man of 38…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suicide's Buoy to Mark Fatal Spot an Amazing Tragedy Tied Bottle to His Leg As Float Drowned in Dam Body Weighted with Iron
One of the most astounding suicides on record occurred yesterday in a dam six miles from Junee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Casualties. Woodchopping Accident
Within a few seconds of commencing a wood-chopping contest at Liverpool on Saturday, James Bourke, 40, who resides at 36 Sir John Young's-crescent, East Sydney, cut off…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wire Causes Accident. Temora
Mr. W. H. Byrnes, a prominent auctioneer, was watch ng horses being yarded, and was standing with his hand on a fence, when [?] of the horses crashed into the fence ab[?]…
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