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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
331 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 17
Two serious street accidents occurred yesterday, by which a mah 60 years of age was killed and a boy 14 years of age seriously injured through being knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During a fire on board the steamer Elderslie, near Freemantle, Miss Low, a passenger was very seriously—it is believed fatally—injured in her efforts to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM DAVEY narrowly escaped losing his life last night whilst engaged in "firing" at the Proprietary mine One of three shots exploded unexpectedly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A wharf at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has collapsed, and 100 people were immersed and many drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the inquest held to-day on the bodies of Mr. Jas. Cowan, M.P., and Mr. Mark Bullimore, the viotims of the railway accident last evening. The Crown Solicitor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was held yesterday on Henry Hughes, who was found dead on Sunday at Port Adelaide, having evidently fallen from a window. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway fatality occurred last evening, resulting in the death of Mr. James Cowan, member for Yatala in the Assembly and a well-known bussiness man and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the recent railway fatality, by which Mr. James Cowan, M.P., and Mr. Mark Bullimore were killed, was concluded to-day, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The late Mr. James Cowan was eulogised all round in Parliament last night, and on the motion of the Premier it was decided not to sit to-day so that members might…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Sloane, aged 50, was killed at Spencer-street yesterday. A barrow, in which bricks were being hauled to a lofty building, fell on his head and smashed his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne express to Sydney was delayed some hours yesterday by the passanger car, mail van, and milk van leaving the rails at Thirlmere, near Picton. No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stephen Bee, engaged in the Britannia United mine, Ballarat, was this morning killed by a fall of earth. At Mount Pleasant, Mary Blackmore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Buttler, an engineer and surveyor, was killed on the Penshurst railway yesterday, in attempting to pass from the engine to the truck while the train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A farmer named James Drury, of Tenterfield, was driving home on Saturday with his wife, when the horse bolted and the occupants were thrown. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A miner named Thomas Westhead, 26 years of age, met his death in the Shenandoah mine, Golden Square, Sandhurst, on Saturday night. He was working with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Martin Ryan, aged 50, fell into the fire at Lilydale on Saturday night, while slightly inebriated, and sustained such fearful injuries that no hope of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning the body of a woman, which was subsequently identified as that of Mary Boshin, was found floating in the river Torrens, near the weir. An…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alexander Thompson and Norton, two yoong men have been thrown from a boggy at Wagga, the former sustaining concussion of the brain and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram from Lake Cudgellico this morning states that Mr. George Frew, a well-known stock agent, was out driving yesterday with his two sons, aged 7 and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the inquest on the body of Westhead, the miner killed at the Shenandoah mine, Sandhurst, the evidence showed that the manager gave instructions to the…
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