Drowning Fatality in New Zealand. Three Victims. WELLINGTON
Hazlewood, a sailmaker, accompanied by two girls, Wilson, aged 7, and Craig, 14, went out boating at Wellington. The boat was capsized and all were drowned…
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Accidents, 1897
873 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 44
Collision Between Tram and Van. A Picnic Party Upset. MELBOURNE
There was a serious accident last night on the St. Kilda-road. A van, driven by Robert M'Guinness and containing a picnic party consisting of ten adults and nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident to Lord Marcus Beresford. LONDON
Lord Marcos Beresford was riding in a stag hunt at Gatwick, when his horse struck a fence and turned a somersault, falling on Lord Beresford, who sustained serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Accident. SYDNEY
Charles Ocklan, an elderly widower with two children, has been cut to pieces on a suburban railway. Ocklan was a carpenter by trade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Stationmaster's Suicide. SYDNEY
W. Odds, a married man with two children, employed as railway stationmaster at Lire, near Mudgee, has committed suicide by shooting. It is believed he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Found Hanged. SYDNEY
The body of an elderly unknown man has been found hanging from a tree at Neutral Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord William Beresford's Accident. LONDON
Lord William Beresford, who sustained a serious accident in the hunting field at Gatwick, is improving. It was found that the pelvis was fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The St. Kilda Road Accident. MELBOURNE
Miss Ellen Ardley, who was injured by the shaft of a van while she was seated on a dummy tramcar on the St. Kilda line, on New Year's night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Mining Accident. SYDNEY
John Tweddel, miner, of the Sunlight mine, Hillgrove, has been injured by a fall of earth. The latest report to hand is to the effect that his condition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Bitten by a Tiger Snake. SYDNEY
A lad named M'Pnerson, residing at Lithgow, was thrice bitten on the hand by a tiger snake. His wrist was bound tightly, stopping the circulation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trucks and Train in Collision. Narrow Escape from a Fearful Accident. MELBOURNE
Last night a train of tracks at the Newport sheds, while being shunted, crashed into a passenger train that was coming in from Geelong laden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Accident at Homba
Near Momba on Saturday afternoon last, C. Wakefield, son of Mr. S. R. Wakefield, of Adelaide, was out shooting with his schoolmate, when his companion in lowering the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Death from a Christmas Spree. BRISBANE
Paddy Fox, an old identity, has died from delirium tremens, consequent on a protracted Christmas spree…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to Mr. Henry Chaplin. LONDON
Mr. Henry Chaplin, President of the Local Government Board, has met with a serious accident. While out hunting at Trentham Hall he was thrown from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Death in the Bush. SYDNEY
The body of John Sands, who has been missing for some time in the Cobar district, has been found in the bush. He apparently died from thirst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found Drowned at Middle Harbor. SYDNEY
F. Goldrick, aged 32, residing with his father at Lewisham until the 5th instant, went to the Inebriates' Home at Echo Farm, Middle Harbor, but the same day he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at the Proprietary
BETWEEN 1 and 2 o'clock to-day a miner named Viant, working at the Proprietary, leant over one of the shafts to speak to some one below, when the cage came down and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Serious Effect of Throwing Stones. SYDNEY
A laborer named James Glynn sustained a very serious and painful injury to the eye while walking in the Domain last night. He was struck in the eye by a lump of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fatality at the Proprietary. The Inquest
AN inquest was held this afternoon on the body of Edward Degenhard[?], who met his death in the Proprietary mine lst night. The Coroner (Mr. Makinson, P.M.)presided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Injured by a Fall of Ore. SYDNEY
A telegram from Peak Hill states that a miner named Thomas Finn was working in the Myalls United Company's mine, when a quantity of ore fell from the hanging-wall…
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