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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Collision Between Ketches. The Fleetwing Sunk. The Crew Rescued. [By Telegraph.] Adelide, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1893 · page 4

A collision has occurred in the Gulf, just off the Port Adelaide lighthouse, between the incoming ketch Fleetwing and the outgoing ketch Dalrymple…

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The Proprietary Accident. The Cause of the Death. Williams Struck by a Plumb-bob

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1893 · page 4

FURTHER particulars are to hand concerning the aceident which occurred at M'Culloch's new shaft on the Proprietary mine at noon to-day,…

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Fatal Accident at the Proprietary. Killed by a Fall

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 April 1893 · page 3

Shortly after noon to-day information was sent to the Broken Hill Proprietary office that a fatal accident had occurred on the property…

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Three Girls Drowned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 2

THE Melbourne Age of Saturday gives the following additional particulars of the distressing accident which occurred at Brunswick on Friday by which…

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The Taradale Fatality. Mrs. Boundy Dying. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 3

The body of Mr. Boundy, who was burned to death at Taradale oa Saturday, night through the bursting of a kerosene lamp, was buried yesterday…

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Collision Between Ketches. The Fleetwing Sunk. The Crew Rescued. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 4

A collision has occurred io the Gulf, just off the Port Adelaide lighthouse, between the incoming ketch Fleetwing and the outgoing ketch Dalrymple…

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The Proprietary Accident. The Inquest on W. Williams. (Continued from Second Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 4

SERGEANT ROBERTSON gave evidence, and produced two pieces of iron and several pieces of twine; the pieces of iron weighed 24lb.; they were of about…

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The Proprietary Accident. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 2

THE particulars gathered by Sergeant Robertson in connection with the fatal accident which occurred yesterday at the Proprietary mine having…

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The Proprietary Accident. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 April 1893 · page 4

MR. A. N. BARNETT, Coroner, opened an inquest at the Courthouse this afternoon upon the body of William John Kipper Williams, who met…

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A Drover Drowned

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 April 1893 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT sends the Wilcannia Grazier the following:—"On Saturday last a report was received by the local police to the effect that a saddle and…

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Collision at Newcastle. The Steamtug Castor Sunk. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 April 1893 · page 4

As Howard Smith's steamer Time, from Sydney, was coming up the harbor at Newcastle to-day, she came into collision with the Government silt…

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An Infant Burned. The Mother Terribly Injured. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 April 1893 · page 2

A four-roomed house at Kingston, in the Ballarat district, occupied by Michael Dalton, a farm laborer, and his family, has been burned to the…

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Train Collision. [By Telegraph.] Perth, Wednesday Night

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 2

Scanty particulars are to hand of an accident which occurred to-day on Canning and Co.'s private railway line. An up train to the timber mills…

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2nd EDITION Miner Office, 4.30 p.m. the Proprietary Accident. Continuation of the Inquest

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 4

Is the courthouse this morning the inquest upon the body of William John Ripper Williams, who met his death on Monday last at the…

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Accident at Block 11

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 May 1893 · page 2

WHILST a trucker named William Penno, aged 19, was at work this morning at Block 11 a truck on which a "spider" was hanging ran into him…

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The Proprietary Accident. Continuation of the Inquest. (Continued from First Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 May 1893 · page 4

ON the Coroner's Court res[?] after lunc[?]eon, Thomas Clarke was called. He had assisted Garrick and " Greenwood in…

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The Proprietary Accident. The Inquest. The Coroner's Summing Up. Verdict of " Gross Negligence."

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 May 1893 · page 3

THE inquest on the body of the miner Williams was continued this evening. O'Sullivan, boss of the sailor gang,…

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The Proprietary Accident. Continuation of the Inquest. The Foreman Carpenter Under Examination

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 May 1893 · page 3

IN the jury room at the courthouse to-day, before Mr. A. N. Barnett, Coroner, the inquest on the body of William J. R. Williams, who met his…

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The Proprietary Accident. (Continued from First Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 May 1893 · page 4

ON the Coroner's Court resuming after luncheon, Thomas Clarke was called. He had assisted Garrick and "Greenwood" in…

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Great Fire in Melbourne. Moore's Timber Yard Destroyed. £30,000 Damage Done. A Fireman Injured. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 May 1893 · page 3

One of the largest fires that have taken place A in Melbourne for some years past broke out at a few minutes before 8 o'clock last evening in Moore's…

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