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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
193 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 10
Eveleigh Tunnel, a few miles out of the city, was yesterday evening the scene of a terrible railway collision, resulting in the death of the enginedriver, Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from M'Lean, in the Grafton district, states that a fearful accident occurred at a Ross's wharf and store, at Fainter's Island, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT might have been a very serious accident occurred at Block 10 last night, but fortunately no one was badly injured. It appears that two parties of men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A navvy named P. Sinclair has been killed by the northern mail train at Adamstown. He is supposed to have been going to the camp when he was run over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whilst Moulton, of pill, protection, and lightning calculation fame, was addressing an audience at Balmain last night, a number of larrikins tilted up the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Little hope is held out here of the safety of the missing steamer Taramung. The discovery of a quantity of wreckage belonging to the missing vessel on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of a terrible railway collision has just been received from New York. Two goods trains, while travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident happened at the West Sydney nomination this afternoon The deck of the hustings collapsed, 60 persons being precipitated to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the collapse of a bridge over the Basle, in Switzerland, a train was precipitated into the river below. Sixty passengers were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A railway collision, attended with fatal results, has occurred on the Lough Swilly railway, near Londonderry, Ireland, between an empty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The storm which has been raging off and on for the last three days is unabated. In and about the city rain has been falling in torrents, and the lowlying suburbs are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loyal and holiday-loving Adelaide yesterday gave itself up to the celebration of the anniversary of the Queen's accession. Besides a military review, the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Particulars have just been received of a serious railway collision which has occurred at Chatham. On the train which was smashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAN named Thomas Stone was brought to the Broken Hill Hospital on Tuesday night last by a mate named Frank Davis, and on examination he was found to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN reference to the gunshot accident which happened to Thomas Stone at Cuthro Station reported in last night's MINER, Dr. Bartley states that there is little or no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous railway collision has occurred at Ravenna, in the state of Ohio, on the Lake Erie railway. A passenger train collided with a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →H.M.S. Cordelia, of the Australian fleet, arrived in Port Jackson this morning, bringing news of a terrible disaster. Four months ago the Cordelia left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident happened in the stopes from Brodribb's shaft, Proprietary mine, this morning to a man named C. Chapple, from the effect of which it is not expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision occurred in the English Channel on Monday between the steamers Dunholme and Kinloch. One was sunk, and fifteen of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, has cabled to Lord Charles Scott, the Admiral on the Australian station, directing an…
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