Driver Often to Blame R.a.c.a. View on Road Accidents
THE opinion that the average driver Is very often more to blame for road accidents than the pedestrian or the condition of the highway is…
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Girl Drowned
[?]aisy Woods (18), of Collins Street, Alexandria, was drowned when swimming in the municipal baths at Brighton-on-le-Sands last Sunday. The girl went…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Collision
Prank Letherburrow (72), of Rocky Point Road, Kogarah, received a fractured right leg, and his brother, Arthur, cuts on the right arm, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duke of Windsor. Car in Collision. Vienna, Jan. 21
The Duke of Windsor's car collided with another car on an icy road between Enzcsfeld Castle and Vienna. The Duke, although slightly shaken, took the wheel himself for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fell From The Tight-Wire Circus Man Injured
THE hot weather is believed to have been responsible for an accident to a tight-wire performer, Albert Perry, 28, at Perry Bros.' Circus, at the corner of Riley and Goulburn Streets, City, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Junk Strikes Rock. 300 Panic-stricken Chinese Drowned. Canton, Jan. 21
Panic-stricken passengers jumped into swirling waters and were drown[?] when a crowded junk struck a submerged rock in a dense fog while negotiating the treacherous…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Four Injured in Smash Passenger Burned By Exhaust GOSFORD
Four people were injured to-day when a sedan car went over an embankment 18 miles on the Sydney side of Gosford. on the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →30,000 Homeless in Floods Train Derailed And 12 Injured New York
At least 30,000 persons are estimated to be homeless in five States because of the floods. More rains are forecast for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Test Men May Not Play for Victoria Injured Hands Keep Rigg And Fleetwood-Smith From Nets
VICTORIA'S team for the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales, which will start at Sydney Cricket Ground at 11 a.m. today, will not be selected until this morning. Two of the Test players in the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Accident at Circus
Signor and Signora Roberdilla were giving a display on a tight wire at Perry Brothers' circus in Goulburn-street, East Sydney, last night, when Signor Roberdilla turned a…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Two More “Death Plank ” Accidents
SYDNEY, Jan. 20. — Emmett Junge, of Balmain, and Albert Dingle, of South Kensington, both slipped from tramway “death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Found Dead by Mother Youth's Accident With Rifle
Joseph Frederick Best, 18, was found dead in his bedroom this afternoon by his mother, at Conjevoi-road, Mosman…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accident or Foul Play? Woman's Clothing Near-Beach
Police investigating the discovery of a woman's clothing at Bronte Beach early to-day fear either foul play or an accident…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Unusual Accident
Arthur Hamilton (14), of Niblick Street, Arncliffe, was injured in an unusual manner on the Cook’s River bridge last Friday night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Horses Injured at Rosehill
Three horses had to receive veterinary attention at Rosehill to-day. Goorka received a kick on the hock. Alan Verde had one of his heels torn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane in Sea; Pilot Drowned London
The boisterous weather conditions responsible for heavy loss of life in shipping disasters in the North Sea continue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clothing Found at Beach Woman May Have Been Drowned
The possibility that the owner of the woman's clothing found at Bronte Beach yesterday may have been drowned is being investigated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Plane Crashes. Caught in Ships Rigging. Pilot Drowned. London, Jan. 22
Seven lifeboats and 30 trawlers vainly searched the Irish Sea from Liverpool for an aeroplane which crashed in a gale while en route to Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Don Bradman Latest on Growing List of Injured Cricketers May Not Be Fit In Time To Play For Australia
DON BRAD MAN is the latest recruit to the ever-growing army of cricket casualties. In Adelaide yesterday he strained a muscle in his…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Barmaid's Drop To Death Accidental Fall From "Commodore" Roof-garden
"THERE is no evidence that this was a case of suicide and I think it is more the other way," remarked the City Coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) when he last week held an inquiry into the death of Miss Olive Maude…
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