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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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Opinions differas to whether the towline of the troopship Manchester Port was cut or not. The police assert that it was not cut, but certain shipping officials declare that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The explosion reported last week as having occurred at the Government Arsenal at Pretoria was really at Bigbie's Foundry at Johannesburg, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible accident has occurred at the Paris Exhibition, Yesterday an unfinished bridge over a street intersecting the Exhibition buildings collapsed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A laborer named Wallace, living at Grey, town, fell under a train returning from the races yesterday. One leg was severed from the body and the other bally mangled. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Marine Board yesterday a preliminary inquiry was held into the accident to the transport Manchester Port. The board held that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The president of the Marine Board received a telegram to-day from Mr. F. Brimage, harbor master at Port [?]frie, advising him of a mishap which occurred there last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Rowe and Frel Crit[?]ber, miners, were injure l by an explosion in the Cobar gold mines on Thursday, and the latter has since died. Both the dead man's eyes were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Anent the position presented by the local A. M. A. to Mr. O'Sullivan at the Town Hall on Wednesday, I should like to make one or two remarks. First, as to appointing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DISTRESSING shooting accident happened this morning shortly before 11 o'clock in Chapple street. Margaret Maxwell Lake, a girl 13 years of age, was accidentally shot by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another lamentable chute accident happened this morning at the British mine. While working at the 200ft. level a miner named John Hendry fell down an open chute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miss M'Kay, of Garnet Hill, Coorparoo, and Miss Boyle were riding their bicycles from Edward-street, turning into Queen-street, city, when Miss M'Kay collided with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The boat lost in the Moreton Bay accident on Friday night has been found. Boucher, it seems, helped Hinslewood, the lame man, into the boat after it had capsized, lashing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The unfortunate man Hendry, who fell down a chute in the British mine yesterday morning, still lingers on in the Hospital, but no hopes are entertained of his recovery. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Orange, aged 60 years, left his farm at Beverley, in December with two horses and a dray, and was not beard of again. The body has now been found 45 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jan Hee, the captain's cabin boy on board the Sultan, went ashore at Geraldton on Saturday night and has not since been seen. It is feared that he has been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The little girl Margaret Lake, the unfortunate sufferer by the shooting accident in Chapple-street on Monday, continues to show signs of improvement in the Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sierra Nevada, a three-masted ship, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, with a cargo of general merebandise, principally spirits, and carrying a crew of 28, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gunnedah colliery—Cunnedah is on the Namoi River, 196 miles from Newcastle, west of Tam worth—caught fire yesterday. Mr. Watson, the manager of the colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a number of visitor to the Brighton races were returning yesterday evening by Say well's steam tramway, running between Lady Robinson's Beach and the Rockdale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Zingara Allard, an old woman, living alone in a cottage on Albury Flat, Albury, was found yesterday lying in frout of a fire quite dead. Nearly all her clothing had been…
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