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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
673 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 34
SHOHTLY after 1 o'clock this morning the British mine was the seene of the most serious mining disaster that has befallen Broken Hill since July 18, 1895, when nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two men, while walking, at; Shea's' Creek, observed a fishing line, and, thinking to set the line, hauled,it in, when, to their surprise it brought to the surface a boy's body,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The hulk Fortuna lying in Johnstone's Bay. with 600 tons of coal aboard, has foundered, The occupants of the hulk, comprising Julius Cæsar, the caretaker, an this wife and three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miss Robertson, who was terribly injured through a trap accident at Brewongle, is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Wood and H. Taylor were riding tandem on a bicycle at Port Pirle on Sunday, at the rate of 15 miles an hour, when, the frontaxle broke, Wood being thrown heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A middle-aged man has been admitted to the Glen Innes Hospital suffering from severe injuries and a fractured leg, caused in a peculiar way. Dreaming that he was,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE publication of yesterday's MINER was materially Interfered with owing to one of the main bolts of tho printing machine breaking. Though, the break was at once located, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT half-past 2 this afternoon (as briefly reported in the Second Edition) an accident occurred to a miner named A. Palmer, who was employed at Patterson's open cut as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOUT half-past 2 this afternoon (as briefly reported in the Second Edition) an accident occurred to a miner named A. Palmer, who was employed at Patterson's open cut as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An accident occurred yesterday at the ruins of the big fire at Craig, Williamson's. The contractor for the removal of the debris. Mr. Wadey, and a workman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE contractor injuredin the Block 11 open cut this morning was named T.Henderson, not Anderson, as printed in the First-Edition. The party of contractors with whom he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Neil Cleland, aged 40, unmarried, has been smothered by a fall of earth in the New Britannia claim, Ballarat East. He was putting in an upraise when the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sad drowning fatality occurred this afternoon two miles from Wilcannia in a billabong on the River Darling. Two sons of Mr. Walter Dell, a resident…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON inquiry at the Hospital this morning, it was ascertained that T. Henderson, the contractor, who was so severely injured in the Block 14 quarry on Friday, is slightly better,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John William Nixon, a resident of West Maitland, has been thrown from a cart and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last Mr. Coroner Brown held a magisterial inquiry at the Court House, touching the circumstances attending the deaths of Walter James Doll…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Christchurch reports a serious coach, accident, in which Mr. Gyles Turner, manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Melbourne who has been on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A boy named Lee was handing his brother a gun when the weapon, which was loaded, went off accidentally, and the latter was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN reply to some persons who brought under his notice that three women had lost their eyesight from the effects of lead-poisoning in the potteries district, Mr. Chamberlain has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Teepookana telegram reports that Mrs. J. O. Boyle sent a son, aged 7 years, to the river for water and the boy fell in. The mother, hearing his screams, attempted to…
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