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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
569 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 29
William Stevens, a fisherman at Coff's Harbor, prepa[?]ed a plag of dynamite to catch fish. Thinking that the fuse was not burning, he kept the plug in his hand. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Manuel, jun., was killed at the South mine this morning. He was working at the back of the 700ft. lovel, when a stone fell from the stope and hit him on the back of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Irvine, 3½, formerly a resident of Albury, was knocked down by an electric trem yesterday and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The five-year-old child of Mr. W. A. March, farmer, of Wokurna, while lying in a field where her father was burning stump, met with an accident which has ended fatally. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fred Dein, in company with two other men, were working yesterday at the 120ft. level In the Solitary mine, Wattle Flat, Bathurst, when the mine was suddenly flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM MANUEL, jun, a trucker at the South mine, met his death to-day with shocking suddenness, as already briefly reported. Deceased was working at the 700ft. level stopes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A goods train collided with another yesterday in a railway tunned at Philadelphia, U. S. A. Four of the oil cars ia the train exploded and did much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man named M'Lary, aged 40, a Mexican miner, engaged at the [?]anide works, Temora, while drinking heavily, drank a solution from the vat. Though medical aid was summoned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J P) opened an inquest at the courthouse this morning into the death of William Benjemin Manuel who was killed yesterday by a rel[?]g stone in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A party of young men were out opossum shooting at Bermagui, when a gun suddenly went off, the contants entering the body of Duncan Mowatt, who died in a few hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two natives croping the Kalpara Harbor to attend a Maori marringa have been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to two boats coming into collision daring a fute on a lake at Ronciglione, in Central Italy, 35 children were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Michael Kelly, 52, was killed by a fall of earth in a mine on the Tara Hall reif, Inglewood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Nolan, aged 21, a son of Stephen Nolan, ot Second-street, [?]den, has died as the result of an accident on the largs Bay line. He was working in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TRUCKER employed at the Junction North mine, whose name is John Lukas was removed to the Hospital in the ambulance this afternoon suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Duncan M'Kinnon, a squatter residing [?] Brungle, near Gandagal, while conv[?]ing with a drover the other day, fell dead of beart disease. Deceased leaves a blind widow,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →E. P. Pole, aged 25, fell in the pit under the flywheel in the padding plant at the Broken Hill Proprietary works at Port Pirie yesterday. He had both legs broken, and also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Shute, aged 9 years, living at Leichhardt, white returning home from school was amusing himself, in company with other boys, in jumping on and off trams in motton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Archibald Wiseman, 28, a clerk employed in a city warehouse, was returning home to Redfern on a late crowded tram on Saturday night when he fell off the footboard between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SENSATIONAL collision between bicycle and buggy occurred about 1 o'clock this afternoon at the intersection of Argent and Sulphide streets. Dr. Bartley was d[?]iving down…
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