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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
361 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 19
Brief particulars of a terrible gunpower explcsion at Butte, in the northwestern State of Montana, U. S. A., are just to hand. The gunpowder was stored ia railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A bathing accident occurred at the beach at Narrabeen yesterday. John Montagu Folkhard, of Gladesville, and Harry Thom, of Balmain, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel Blakely, a miner, employed at the Coal Creek mine, Korrumburra, Gippsland, was killed by a fall of stone "yesterday. Another miner named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Cafe, a resident of Muewellbrook, was handling a revolver, when it exploded, killing a boy named Purvis Brindle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Walsh, driver of. Cobb's coach between Omeo and Bairnsdale was killed yesterday. While going down a steep hill the brate refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A number of residents of Wairoa had camped at the Aratapu coastal lagoon, where they were holiday making. A number of them were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN M'GUIRE a yonug man, was killed in Messrs, Baxier and Saddler's open cut at 5.15 p.m through a large rock failing on him. He was working evertime…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North German Lloyd steamer Elba, bound from Bremen to New York came into collision with a fishing smack in the North Sea. Two hundred were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further details of the terrible disaster to the North-German Lloyd steamer Elbe, a brief account of which was cabled last evening are now to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest into the circumstances attending the death of the man John M'Guire, who was killed in Baxter and Saddler's open cut on the Proprietary mine on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquest into the circumstances attending the death of the man John M'Guire, who was killed in Bax[?]er and Saddler's open cut on the Proprietary mine on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AN accident which caused considerable damage, and might have had much more serious consequences, occurred on the open cut workings at Block ll, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Rockhampton yesterday James Russell, an apprentice at the Fitzroy Foundry, was oiling the lubricators of the shafting, which had been neglected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LBONARD, the six-year-old son of Mr. E. W. Stuchbury, a prominent friendly society man, was drowned on Saturday in a dam near Neileon's slaughtering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Coroner, Sir. T. H Wilkinson, held a magisterial inquiry at the courthouse this afternoon into the death of JLeobard Mtuchbury, a lad of 6 years, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ax accident which caused considerable damage, and might have had much more serions consequences, occurred on the open cut workings at Block ll, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Coroner, Mr. T. H Wilkinson, held a magisterial irquiry at the courthouse this afternoon into t he death of Leoaard [?] a lad of 6 years, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An explosion of a boiler has occurred at Goodall Brothers boiling-down establiahment, Gunnedah. Grundy, the engineer, was scalded in the face and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An explosion of a boiler has occurred at Goodall Brothers' boiling-down establishment, G[?]dah. Grundy, the engineer, was scalded in the face and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another serious explosion has occurred at the new harbor works at Fremantle. A new explosive called "Tipo," the invention of Mr. M'Ardill,…
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