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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
331 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 17
Frederick Wood, aged 31, of Woolloomooloo, fell in a waterhole yesterday. At the inquest this morning a verdict of adsidental drowning was returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning Samuel McClintock, a porter, was knocked down by a train at Petersham. The wheels passed over him, completely severing his head from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles Robinson, who fired a revolver at Mrs. Dixon at Footscray last night, was before the local court to-day on a charge of doing grievious bodily harm,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at Glen Innes this morning on the body of William Kinnaird, engaged on bridge work. The chain used to raise the monkey broke,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The woman Dixon, who was shot by a sailor, is growing feeble in the hospital, and is now considered in danger of her life…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named Percival Cochrane was killed at the Pioneer Hydraulic Sluicing Claim, Mitta Mitta, N.S.W., by a fall of earth yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Galvan, an elderly man, was drowned in attempting to cross a creak at Yerrong, near Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway collision occurred this morning. The train from Mordiallac was entering into Prince's Bridge station when a train of empty carriages, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It has been found now that five persons have been injured in the railway accident this morning at Prince's Bridge. Henry Heymanson, aged 30, is suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY afternoon a lamentable accident occurred at the North Junction mine, by which a promising boy of 12 years; named John George Armitt, lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ferry from the mainland, on which the Queen was crossing to Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, was partly submerged by the premature lowering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MIDDLE-AGED man, named John Craig, was seriously if not fatally injured at the Proprietary mine this afternoon. He was working at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Pike was killed at Botany yesterday by falling from a cart. Lynette Termode, 15 months old, was drowned in a tub of water at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joshua Hall, aged 60, was caught in the belting at the Fyansford Starch Mills on Saturday night and smashed to death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A harrowing gun accident occurred at Amaroo, near Molong, this morning. Walter Wilson, a farmer, who was out shooting hares, got through a fence and pulled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miss Thomas, of Barringhup, on Thursday night, opened the door of her father's house, and was struck in the face by a shot fired from the gun of a rabbiter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Adamson, aged 26, of Yarraville, met with serious injuries at the local sugar mill on Saturday by falling down the well of a lift in a similar manner to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saunder's Coffee Palace at the Bluff, a two-storied building, was destroyed by fire last night, and the inmates narrowly escaped. Two ladies (Mrs. Sutton and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →T. Old, 40 years of age, working at Koch's Pioneer mine, Sandhurst, yesterday, was fixing ladders and stages in the shaft, and fell with tho ladder. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Bartlett was drowned in the Murrumbidgee near Glendee yesterday through the rapid rising of the flood waters…
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