First Aid to the Injured
THREE excellent purposes were served at the Town Hall last night. In the first place n very large crowd was got together—the hall over flowed—to listen and witness a brief…
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Accidents, 1898
673 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 34
A Chief Engineer Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Friday Afternoon
Hugh Eagelsom, chief engineer of the British India steamer India, was missed from the vessel last night. His body was found floating in the port stream to-day, dressed…
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An accident has occurred at the Pyrmont sugar works owing to the collapee of an old retort, by which a man named Matthews was killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Suicide of a Town Clerk. AUCKLAND
Gibson, town clerk at Foxton, has committed suicide by cutting his throat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fall of Earth. Two Miners Killed. SYDNEY
George Kelly and Edward Trestrail, miners working in the Girilambone copper mine, have been killed there through a fall of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fatality in Adelaide. Six Children Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Tuesday Afternoon
Mr. Hammer, manager of the East End Market, has just telephoned to the city that six little children have been drowned in the creek near Hackney. One body has been…
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James Thomas Parnell, aged 35, a milkman, was drowned in the bay after attending church on Sunday. His body was found yesterday near Middle Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Catastrophe in the States. The Ohio Bursts its Banks. Two Hundred Persons Drowned. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Evening
A telegram from New York states that the Ohio river, swollen by the snow waters from the Alleghany Mountains, has burst its banks at Shawneetown, in…
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A miner named Michael Cain, while working in the Central mine early this morning, is supposed to have had a fit; at any rate, be fell down a chute a distance of 17ft. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Boys'Fight. One of the Combatants Killed. SYDNEY
A sad affair is reported from Narandern, resulting in the death of a boy named Albert Edmondson, who lived with his parents. Two boys—one of them Edmondson—met by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fatality in Adelaide. Six Children Drowned. [Br Telegraph.] Adelaide, Tuesday Alternoon
Mr. Hammer, manager of the East End Market, has just telephoned to the city that six little children have been drowned in the creek near Hackney. One body has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Catastrophe in the States. Two Hundred Persons Drowned. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Evening
A telegram from New York states that tho Ohio river, swollen by the snow waters from the Alleghany Mountains, has burst its banks at Shawneetown, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] An Unknown Dead. SYDNEY
An unknown man, while carrying some papers at the General Post Office yesterday evening, suddenly dropped dead…
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WHILST driving in a spring dray to Round Hill yesterday morning Mr. E. Conroy, wellKnown in Broken Hill, met with a serious accident. When he had gone about half the…
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WHILST driving in a spring dray to Round Hill yesterday morning Mr. E. Conroy, wellknown in Broken Hill, met with a serious accident. When be had gone about half the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents and Fatalities. Fell into the Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday
A man named James Reeves has been found lying across the fire in his hut, near Mudgee. His arms were charred and his face £0 burnt Rs to be quite unrecognisable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegram.] a Boat Capsized. Two Men Drowned. SYDNEY
Schmidt, an unmarried man, and Schultz a married man, were members of a party which went fishing off Botany on Thursday night. Somehow the boat capsized, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents in Mimic Warfare. MELBOURNE
The troops went into camp at Ballarat yesterday. Sergeant-Major Algie during the day was kecked by a horse and had his leg broken. Bugler Cohen also had a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Strange Accident. Dangers of Train Travelling. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The northern train timed to arrive in Sydney at 10 o'clock yesternight broke an axle near Hyde. The wheel attached to the axle pierced the bottom of the carriage and entangled the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
James Malone, aged 80, father-in-law of Mr. George Adams, of Tattersall's sweeps while visiting Mr. Adams' wife yesterday at Bulli, was crossing the railway, when a train…
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