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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
193 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 10
A fatal accident Happened yesterday at Eden to a little girl named Maxwell. She was outside playing when a boy riding past started the farm horses, one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man, named Patrick Neagle, was killed in the tunnel of the South Brisbane Railway last evening. A great fall of rock took place, and Neaglo was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the performance at Harmston's Wild West Show, while Texas Jack was giving an exhibition of rifle shooting, a bullet missed the mark and struck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A remarkable panic occurred in the Sandhurst Theatre on Saturday night. A terrible doststorm swept over the city, and the dust penetrated the theatre in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sailor, employed on the steamer Federal, got his foot caught in a wire hawser on the vessel at Geelong on Saturday, and a sudden jerk of the rope cut…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Court of Marine Inquiry has given its decision in the case with reference to the collision between the Elingamite and Despatch, by which a man was crushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A lad named Cox, the son of a farmer at Chiltern, was killed instantly yesterday through a dray upsetting and falling on his neck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wm. Dean, a young man of Creswick, was playing in front of his house with his children, and while trying some gymnastic exercise on the limb of a tree he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST night Mr. Tite, manager of the Tarrawingee quarries, came into town and reported that an accident had happened to a man named Warren, employed there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As Constable May was crossing from one platform to another at Granville at 11 o'clock last night, be fell into a pit on the line and broke his leg. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE man reported injured at Tarrawingee quarries in Saturday's issue was brought into town last night by Mr. O'Donnell, secretary of the Smelter branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A party of five young ladies went out boating on Monday on the Shoalhaven River. The boat was capsized, and the occupants attempted to swim to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision has occurred in the English channel between the British Peer, 1428 tons, and the steamer Roxburgh Castle, 1225 tons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—My attention having been called to a report in your paper of March 11 re above, I think it my duty to reply thereto, to deny the statement, and likewise to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In connection with the sinking on Tuesday evening the steamer Utopia, bound with immigrants from England to New York, after colliding with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—We often hear of the aims of the A.M.A., and of the immense service it renders to the individual miner and pickman in protecting him from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The letter of Messrs. Tite, Hamilton, and Felts in this evening's MINER is. doubtless, satisfactory as far as it goes, but it would have been much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible accident occurred at the Caulfield railway station on Saturday evening, consequent on the usual mad rush for seats in the railway trains after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As president of the Smelter and Surface Employes' branch of the A.M.A., I feel it my duty to reply to the letter which appeared in your papar of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—While Mr. Sturcke may well be congratulated on the lucidity and moderation of tone characterising his letter in this evening's MINER, I submit that he…
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