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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Blasting Accident. Two Municipal Employees Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 May 1893 · page 4

A VERY serious accident happened at about 2 o'clock this afternoon at the works which are proceeding in Mica-street, where municipal employees are…

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Fatality at Kars. An Overseer Shoots Himself

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 May 1893 · page 4

VERY meagre particulars were received by the Coroner today of a fatality on Kars station, which is within the boundaries of Mr. Barnett's district…

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The Blasting Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 May 1893 · page 4

THE corporation laborers, Griffin and Pascoe, who were injured by a blasting explosion this afternoon, are progressing favorably, their hurts…

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A Buggy Accident. Mr. Ashcroft Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 May 1893 · page 4

MR. ASHCROFT, electrician at the Proprietary mine, met with an accident this morning. He was driving to the mines, when one of the…

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Blasting Accident. Two Municipal Employees Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 May 1893 · page 1

A VERY serious accident happened at about 2 o'clock this afternoon at the works which are proceeding in Micastreet, where municipal employees are…

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Fatality at Kars. An Overseer Shoots Himself

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 May 1893 · page 1

VERY meagre particulars were received by the Coroner to-day of a fatality on Kars station, which is within the boundaries of Mr. Barnett's district…

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The Blasting Accident

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 May 1893 · page 1

THE corporation laborers, Griffin and Pascoe, who were injured by a blasting explosion this afternoon, are progressing favorably, their hurts…

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A Buggy Accident. Mr. Ashcroft Injured

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 May 1893 · page 1

MR. ASHCROFT, electrician at the Proprietary mine, met with an accident this morning. He was driving to the mines, when one of the…

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The Fatality at Kars. Died by His Own Hand

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 May 1893 · page 2

MR. G. A. MILLS, J.P., conducted a magisterial inquiry at Kars station yesterday into the death of a man named Robert Disher. The evidence…

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Scene in the Assembly. Mr. Grahame in Collision with the Chair. Warm Language Used. "I'll Shoot You To-morrow." [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 May 1893 · page 4

As previously telegraphed, the Assembly continued sitting till a late hour this morning, discussing the estimates of the Department of Mines…

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The Kars Fatality

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 May 1893 · page 2

THE witness Lycurgus Underdown, in giving evidence at the inquest on the body of the man Disher, who shot himself at Kars station on Monday, stated…

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Scene in the Assembly. Mr. Grahame in Collision with the Chair. Warm Language Used. "I'll Shoot You To-morrow." [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 May 1893 · page 1

As previously telegraphed, the Assembly continued sitting till a late hour this morning, discussing the estimates of the Department of Mines…

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Accident on a Warship. Four Men Barned. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 May 1893 · page 4

Whilst the gunboat Lizard, one of the vessels of the Australian squadron, was on a voyage from Sydney [?] Melbourne, completed to-day, a serious…

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Accident on a Warship. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 1

Whilst the gunboat Lizard, one of the vessels of the Australian squadron, was on a voyage from Sydney to Melbourne, completed to-day, a serious…

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3rd EDITION Miner Office, 7 p.m. Marine Disaster. Two Steamers in Collision. One of them Sunk. 24 Lives Lost. [By Cable.] London, Sunday Night

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 May 1893 · page 4

News has just been received of a terrible marine collision in the English Channel, resulting in serious loss of life…

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Collision of Locomotives

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 May 1893 · page 3

DURING last night two locomotive engines collided in or near the railway yards at Cockburn, and considerable damage was thereby done to them,…

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The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Marine Disaster. Two Steamers in Collision. One of them Sunk. 24 Lives Lost. [By Cable.] London, Sunday Night

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 May 1893 · page 1

News has just been received of a terrible marine collision in the English Channel, resulting in serious loss of life…

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Fearful Cage Accident. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 May 1893 · page 2

As a cage containing ten miners was ascending in a mine in Michigan, U. S. A., something gave way and the cage dropped with frightful rapidity a…

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The Cockburn Collision

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 May 1893 · page 2

THE Advertiser's correspondent at Cockburn furnishes the following additional particulars of the locomotive collision which happened there on…

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A Mine Accident. Two Men Injured. Buried by a Fall of Earth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 May 1893 · page 2

AT about 9.30 o'clock this morning an accident occurred at the south end of Baxter's open cutting on the Proprietary mine, resulting in two workmen…

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