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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
77 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 4
The floods in Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, are spreading devastation over the country for miles round. The scenes are described as simply awful. The crowds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dead body of a fisherman named Johns has been found floating in the harbour at Port Stephens…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another serious railway accident occurred last night, resulting in two young women being very badly injured, and several other passengers, being bruised,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The west mail train to Sydney yesterday afternoon collided with a stationary engine at Penrith, smashing the engine and partly telescoping the carriages. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious disaster happened to-day at Armagh, in Ireland. A large Sunday school was having its annual picnic, the children and friends being conveyed down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of the recent continuous rains a great portion of Victoria, especially in the north and north-west, is flooded. A large amount of damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In regard to the railway disaster, by which on Wednesday 100 children were killed at Armagh, in Ireland the driver, the guard, and fireman of the train have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. J. McGrath, a well-known farmer and hotelkeeper at Katunga, has been drowned in a peculiar manner. He fell into a drainage channel in the main street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edward Russell, a young man, 25 years of age, employed by the Railway Department on the line between Murchison and Rushworth, while removing flood debris,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seventy-four deaths have actually taken place through the railway accident at Armagh. Whole families were killed by the disaster. The Queen has sent a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A train which was retuning, full of passengers, from the Auckland races on Saturday afternoon, dashed into a van attached to another train, thus severely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The large warehouse in the occupancy of Moran and Cato, grocers, of Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another horrible fatality has occurred on the railway line hear North Melbourne. Lillias Smellit, aged 30, the wife of a tea merchant of Queen-street, who has for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A nonsuit was entered yesterday afternoon in the action brought by Alexander Bryce against William Noller, a contractor, to recover £1000 damages for injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious shipping disaster occurred in the Bay last night, resulting in the sinking of the fine ship Cape Verde. It appears that the ship Iolanthe, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another railway accident occurred during Sunday at the Ballarat West station, when some empty trucks which were being shunted ran into the Ballarat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No steps have yet been taken to raise, the ship Cape Verde, which was sunk in Hobson's Bay on Sunday night by a collision with the ship Iolanthe. Amongst…
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