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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Fatal Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 April 1894 · page 3

MRS. POLLARD, a young married woman, was killed at South Town yesterday afternoon through being thrown from a buggy. Mr. and Mrs…

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A Big Mine Accident. An Unexpected Explosion

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 May 1894 · page 2

AN accident, which was fortunately not attended with very serious results, occurred yesterday afternoon in one of Baxter and Saddler's open cuts on the…

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Disaster on the Danube. Collapse of a Landing Stage. Two Hundred Persons Drowned. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 2

An appalling river disaster is reported from Galatz, an important port on the Lower Danube, in Roumania. It appears that a large number of…

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A Goldfields Mystery. An Expectant Bridegroom Found Shot. Murder or Accident or Suicide? [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 2

A profound sensation was produced at Eaglehawk yesterday by a mysterious tragedy surrounded by some peculiarly distressing circumstances…

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Buggy Accident. a Sensational Experience

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 May 1894 · page 4

ON Sunday, April 29, a buggy accident, resulting in the death of Mrs. bollard, occurred at South Town; and at the same place yesterday—just a week…

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The Bass' Straits Collision. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 May 1894 · page 2

The Marine Board has found that the collision between the steamer Koonoowarra and the ship Titania in Bass' Straits on April 15 was caused…

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Buggy Accident. a Sensational Experience

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 May 1894 · page 1

ON Sunday, April 29, a buggy accident, resulting in the death of Mrs. Pollard, occurred at South Town; and at the same place yesterday—just a week…

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Serious Mine Accident. Two Killed, One Critical. [By Telkgbaph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 May 1894 · page 2

A telegram from Orange reports another very serious mining accident near there. Three men, named respectively Beckford, Samuel Roberts,…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, May 12, 1894. Mining Accidents

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 2

A GOOD deal of space in the altogether unnecessarily burdened annual mining reports of the several colonies is devoted to a Catalogue of the accidents…

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Fatal Football Accident. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 May 1894 · page 3

Alexander Stuart, 21, a fine young man and a general favorite, was playing as emergency in a football match at Cheltenham on Saturday afternoon…

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Horrible Accidents. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 2

George Patterson, aged 11, residing with his parents at Woollahra, was playing about a hoisting crane, when his left arm got caught in the cog…

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3rd EDITION. Miner Office, 7 p.m. Serious Buggy Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 4

While Mrs. Crawley and Mrs. Hayward and two children were driving from Razorback to Picton the pony bolted. Mrs. Crawley was killed and…

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Fatal Mine Accident. Death of Charles Ryder

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 2

CHARLES RYDER, and elderly man, who met with an accident in Beaglehole's cutting on Block 11 several weeks, ago, died yesterday. I had been found…

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The Orange Mine Accident. The Inquest. by Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 2

The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two brothers Roberts, who were killed last week in the Wentworth Proprietary mine, near Orange, by the…

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The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Serious Buggy Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 May 1894 · page 1

While Mrs. Crawley and Mrs. Hayward and two children were driving from Razorback to Picton the pony bolted. Mrs. Crawley was killed and…

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Accident at Tarrawingee. An Italian Seriously Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 May 1894 · page 4

A serious accident occurred at the Tarrawingee quarries early this morn[?] to an Italian named Pietro Ferrari. It appears that Ferrari was working…

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Fearful Railway Accident. Three Hundred Killed. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 May 1894 · page 2

A brief cablegram from Panama states that a fearful accident has occurred on the railway line at San Salvador…

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Accident at Tarrawingee. An Italian Seriously Injured

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 May 1894 · page 1

A serious accident occurred at the Tarrawingee quarries early this morn[?] to an Italian named Pietro Ferrari. It appears that Ferrari was working…

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Fatality at Port Pirie. Two Lads Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 May 1894 · page 3

A distressing [?]ing accident occurred in the Port Pirie Creek on Saturday evening, resulting in the drowning of two lads B[?] and Vicher…

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3rd EDITION. Miner Office, 7 p.n. [?] Railway Accident. [By C[?].] London, Mondy Evening

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 May 1894 · page 4

A horrible railway accident has occurred in Scotland. Four young men [?] [?] [?], when the driver of an approaching train…

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