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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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The Railway Fatality

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 August 1893 · page 1

THE Coroner (Mr. A. N. Barnett), who is absent at Purnamoota on business connected with the Warden's office, has telegraphed authority for the burial of…

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The Railway Fatality. Magisterial Inquiry

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 August 1893 · page 4

MR. A. N. BARNETT, Coroner, conducted a magisterial inquiry at the courthouse this afternoon into the circumstances connected with the…

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The Railway Fatality. Magisterial Inquiry

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 August 1893 · page 1

MR. A. N. BARNETT, Coroner, conducted a magisterial inquiry at the courthouse this afternoon into the circumstances connected with the…

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Sad Burning Fatality

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 August 1893 · page 2

A VERY sad accident which happened on Friday morning ended last evening in the death of Sylvina May ("Viney") Knight, the only child of Mr. A. S…

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3rd. EDITION Miner Office, 7 p.m. Shocking Rail Accident. Sixteen Killed, Fifty Injured. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 28 August 1893 · page 4

An excursion train was yesterday afternoon leaving the junction station at Long Island, United States, when it overtook and ran into a special. The…

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Railway Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 28 August 1893 · page 4

A GIRL named Hancock met with a painful accident yesterday afternoon at Acacia Siding through jumping from the Silverton excursion train whilst it…

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The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Shocking Rail Accident. Sixteen Killed, Fifty Injured. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 29 August 1893 · page 1

An excursion train was yesterday afternoon leaving the junction station at Long Island, United States, when it overtook and ran into a special. The…

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A River Collision. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 September 1893 · page 2

A collision occurred yesterday morning at daybreak between the steamer Maggie, towing a barge laden with 940 bales of wool, and bound…

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Railway Collision. Two Men Injured. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

A somewhat serious railway accident has happened near Kilmore Junction. The couplings between an engine and its trucks and passenger train broke…

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The Proprietary Accident. Death of Humphreys

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

As was feared, the accident which took place at the Proprietary mine this morning (as reported in the First Edition) resulted fatally. Humphreys…

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Accident at the Proprietart. Fatal Results Feared

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 3

EDWARD EDGAR HUMPHREYS, 17, met with a very serious accident this morning at the Proprietary mine. He was engaged in removing metal from…

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Death by Drowning

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 3

A SAD accident, resulting in the drowning of a child aged 3 years and 3 months, named Walter John Hill, occurred at the Bonanza dam, East…

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Railway Collision. Two Men Injured. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 1

A somewhat serious railway accident has happened near Kilmore Junction. The couplings between an engine and its trucks and passenger train broke…

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The Proprietary Accident. Death of Humphreys

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 1

As was feared, the accident which took place at the Proprietary mine this morning (as reported in the First Edition) resulted fatally. Humphreys…

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Death by Drowning

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 1

A SAD accident, resulting in the drowning of a child aged 3 years and 3 months, named Walter John Hill, occurred at the Bonanza dam, East…

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General Cable News. Railway Collision in America. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 2

A railway collision attended with fatal results bas occurred on the Chicago to Cincinatti line. A passenger train from the former town ran…

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Drowned in the Darling. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 September 1893 · page 4

Wool is beginning to go away in large quantities. The steamer Trafalgar and a barge left here yesterday for Echuca laden with 1011 bales…

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Accident at the Big Mine. Two Horses Killed

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 September 1893 · page 2

AT 10 o'clock this morning an accident occurred on the new railway bridge, on the Proprietary mine, which crosses the South road. Three horses had…

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Drowned in the Darling. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 September 1893 · page 1

Wool is beginning to go away in large quantities. The steamer. Trafalgar and a barge left here yesterday for Echuca laden with 1011 bales…

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The Proprietary Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 September 1893 · page 3

ON inquiry at the Hospital at 3 o'clock it was ascertained that the man Holland, who met with an accident at the Proprietary mine this morning (as…

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