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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
193 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 10
Ada Mountjoy, agod 14, and Annie Mountjoy, aged 15, cousins, and well-connected, residing at Geelong, before going to bed last night, in order to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another has been added to the long list of serious disasters which have recently occurred in the Bay, and at the entrance to it; but on this occasion the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible railway accident is reported as having ocurred last evening between Murrumburrah and Demondville Junction. Inspector Cornthwaite, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident happened at the Petersham railway station this morning. It appears that, at about 8 o'clock, two men, Frank Little and Frank Williams, engaged at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four men were out fishing in a small boat at Cunningham yesterday, when a gust of wind caused the boat to upset. There were four men in the boat, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the body of inspector Cornth waite, of the Railway Department, who was killed in the collision on Friday, was begun on Saturday at Murrumburrah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disasters never come singly, the people of Melbourne are now saying. Following up the Gambier catastrophe, which has plunged the whole city into gloom—in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible railway collision in Spain is reported from Madrid. Seventy persons were killed and 20 injured in the collision…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Fiji, of Liverpool, was wrecked yesterday morning near Port Campbell, a little east of Warrnambool. She is a vessel of 1375 tonsi and left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is very little fresh news concerning the wreck of the Fiji. The Warrnambool lifeboat has returned, having been unable to put out owing to the heavy sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fearful accident happened at the Hoffman Brick Company's works this afternoon. Charles Andrews was working in the face of a claypit tamping a 14lb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A collision is reported in the Atlantic between the Guion liner Arizona and a sailing vessel, the name of which has not been ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MOST distressing accident happened at the Proprietary mine this morning, at about 10.30 o'clock, which resulted in the death of a man named John Walker. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was commenced last evening at the Crystal Hotel, before the Coroner (Mr. R. B. Pell) and a jury, on the[?] body of John Walker, killed by the tramway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By an explosion at Forchies colliery in the Charleroi district of Belgium, 27 miners have been killed, and many others injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous railway collision between two workmen's trains occurred at Zelienopee, in Pennsylvania, yesterday, by which 10 men were killed and a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-four persons have been killed in a terrible railway collision which has oocurred at Burgos, in Spain. Mr. J. Seymour Lucas, the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BLOCK 14 mine has bean fortunately free from fatal accidents for a long period; and, indeed, accidents of any kind hare keen rare there. About 11 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. R. B. P[?]LL, coroner, held an inquest at Farmer's Hotel this forenoon on the body of Thomas Brown, who was killed yesterday in the stopes at Block 14 mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious railway accident occurred on Wednesday night at Teralba, near Newcastle, by which George Cockroft, a fireman, lost his life. An inquest was…
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