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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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Robert Millett, aged 22, a Salvation Army bandsman, whilst attending an army encampment at Manly, accompanied some others to the ocean to bathe yesterday morning. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several cases of drowning occurred during the holidays in New Zealand. The victims include Mr. Tracy Hall, the operatic singer. During the recent hot spell a blacksmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS morning a boy named John Callaghan, aged 7 years, living at Railway Town, was trying his skill as a marksman on some hawks, which were flying, provokingly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Funck, whilst bathing from Balmoral Beach, in Middle Harbor, yesterday, fractured his spine and expired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Pringle, a miner, working on the Kohinoor mine, Parkes, whilst engaged baling into a sump at the 450ft. level yesterday, was seized with a fit and fell head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Patrick Daly, aged 70 years, a grazier at Emu Plains, Deniliquin, was found drowned in the Edwards River yesterday. Deceased's coat and hat were found on the river bank,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A buggy drawn by a bolting pair of horse's collided with the Bright coach yesterday. Thomas Sangster, an elderly passenger in the coach, was seriously injured and two ladies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named John Hill was crushed by a fall of earth at Bingara on Thursday. When found he was alive and helpless, covered by swarms of ants. He was taken to the Hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon a miner named George Bartholomew, employed at the Central mine, was working at the 500ft. level, when a stone fell down between the wall and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the voyage from England of the R.M.S. Himalaya, when the steamer was between Aden and Colombo, Christopher. Deering, the boatswain, who was last seen an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ambulance had to be requisitioned shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning to convey a young man named M. Banningham to his home at the corner of Mica and Iodide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the running of the January Handicap at the Newcastle Jockey Club's races on Thursday several horses fell, causing injury to both animals and jockeys. The Splendor—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alfred Martin Grabe, a boy, was drowned in a tank at Yorketown yesterday. An inquest was held and a verdict of accidental death recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A strange case of double death is reported from Delegate. Two men (one named Coote, aged 30, and the other named Hetherington, well up in years) were fosnd dead in bed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The body of a man has been found in the Urisino pastoral district, Paroo. A billycan lay alongside the body, with the words scratched on the bottom, "Perished for want…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest has been held on the body of the youngman Hunter, who died at Armidale in peculiar circumstances a day or two ago. A verdict was returned that he took the sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE hearing of the charges of manslaughter against Francis Symons and George Williams, in connection with the accident at the South Mine which caused the death of Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Tarasco, a dentist, was out in the country, near Bombalu, in company with several others. He was talking of gun accidents, and was saying how easily one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned inquest on the body of William Coxar, who was killed in the Long Tunnel Extended mine, Walhalla, win concluded to-day. A verdict of accidental death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE hearing of the charges of manslaughter against Francis Symons anti Gorge Williams, in connection with the accident at the South Mine which caused the death of Charles…
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