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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Wreck at Sydney Heads. The Captain Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 January 1895 · page 4

The schooner Emma Matilda, laden with maiza from the Hawkesbury, was wrecked off North Head, Sydney, this morning. There was a heavy sea on with…

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The Proprietary Accident

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 January 1895 · page 4

THE Inquest on the body of John Olds, who was killed in Messrs. Baxter and Saddler's open cut on the Big mine on Saturday, was resumed in the courthouse…

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Terrible Fire Fatality. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 2

Eight of the workwomen have been burned to death by a fire in a city laundry…

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Wreck at Sydney Heads. The Captain Drowned. by Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 1

The schooner Emms Matilda, Isden with maizs from the Hawkasbury, was wrecked off North Head, Sydney, this morning. There was a heavy sea on with…

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The Bursting of a Gun. One Killed, Two Injured. [By Tblegraph.] Auckland

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 2

By the bursting of an old fire-pound gun, which has been lying for many years at Westport, and which was being fired to celebrate the advent of…

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3rd EDITION Minor office 6.30 p.m. Latest Cable News. The Terrible Fire Fatality. LONDON, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 4

Further details concerning the fire in a city laundry, in which eight workwomen were burned to death, show that the fire broke out in the workrooms. The flames…

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Accidents at Cockburn

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 2

Our Cockburn correspondent wrote yesterday:—Whilst training at the course on Monday last one of the riders, Mr. P. Kreuss, got a nastys…

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The Proprietary Accident

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1895 · page 1

THE Inquest on the body of John Olds, who was killed in Mesers. Baxter and Saddler's open cut on the Big mine on Saturday, was resumed in the courthouse…

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Latest Cable News. The Terrible Fire Fatality. LONDON, Wednesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 January 1895 · page 1

Further details concerning the fire in a city laundry, in which eight workwomen were burned to death, show that the fire broke out in the workrooms. The flames…

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Accident to Mr. Player

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 January 1895 · page 2

Mr. W. J. PLAYER, the popular member of the firm of Messrs Player and Stubington, butchers,met with a painful injury to his leg yesterday…

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Mining Accident

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1895 · page 4

A MINER named George Miller, residing in Chlorids-street, was injured underground in the Proprietary mine this afternoon. A rock came away and struck…

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A Channel Collision. LONDON, Sunday Evening

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1895 · page 4

The barque Primavera, which departed for Hobart on the 5th inatant,has been in collision in the English Channel with the steamer Pearl. The latter foundered, but…

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Mining Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1895 · page 1

A MINER named George Miller, residing in Chloride-street, was injured underground in the Proprietary mine this afternoon. A rock came away and struck…

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A Channel Collision. LONDON, Sunday Evening

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1895 · page 1

Th[?] [?]arque Primavera, which departed for Hobart on the 5th instant, has been in collision in the English Channel with the steamer Pearl. The latter foundered, but…

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Horrible Blasting Accident. a Man's Skull Blown Off. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1895 · page 2

A frightful accident occurred at Bendigo yesterday afternoon. William Beaton and Thomas John Franklin had charged a hole at the New Red,…

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Horrible Railway Accident. Two Men Killed. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1895 · page 4

A frightful accident occurred to-day at Jolimont. James O'Halloran, aged 60, and John Smith, aged 33, both married gangers, were screwing a bolt on the…

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Horrible Railway Accident. Two Men Killed. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 1

A frightful accident occurred to-day at Jolimont. James O'Halloran, aged 60, and John Smith, aged 33, both married gangers, were screwing a bolt on the…

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Machinery Fatality. a Man Horribly Mangled. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 4

Edward. Fi[?]zgerald, carpenter, employed at Way and Works yards, Glanville, met with a terrible death yesterday. He had ascended the ladder to accomplish…

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Machinery Fatality. a Man Horribly Mangled. [By Telegraph] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 January 1895 · page 1

Edward Fitzgerald, carpenter, employed at Way and Works yards, Glanville, met with a terrible death yesterday. He bad ascended the ladder to accomplish…

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2nd EDITION Minor Office 1.30 p.m. Terrible Gunpowder Explosion. Twenty-five Killed. One 'Hundred Injured. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 January 1895 · page 4

Brief particulars of a terrible gunpower explodion at Butte, in the northwestern State of Montana, U. S. A., are just to hand…

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