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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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More detailed news with regard to the Boer attack on Ladysmith last Saturday is now being received. The Standard correspondent at Frere…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TRUCKER named Murcutt, while handling a loaded truck underground at Block 10 to tiny, slipped, and the truck fell on him. Murcutt sustained severe bruises about the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frederick Schoeffen, bootmaker, living at Katoombi, accidentally shot himself in the leg on Thursday. The bullet was extracted, but gangrene set in and the leg had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The remains of an old man, about 80, have been found on the Mos[?]giel road, near Booligal. So far the unfortunate victim of drought and heat is unidentified. He has a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An extraordinary accident occurred at the refrigerating works of Bennett and Woolcocks, butchers, Collingwood, yesterday afternoon. The governing belt broke, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The house of a farmer named Vince was destroyed by fire at Wycheproof yesterday, Mrs. Vince, the wife, perishing in the flames. The husband, on returning home from work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Gill Millar, 51, who had his ribs broken by a fall at the new mill, Proprietary mine, yesterday afternoon, died from his injuries in the Hospital at 7.45 last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Leith Napier, who met with the accident yesterday, is still alive, and the doctors now say that unless unfavorable developments occur there are some hopes of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About mid-day to-day Dr. Leith Napier, who is surgeon-major attending the South Australian Contingent, rode from Adelaide to Brighton to join the camp. When…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. MAITLAND, P.M., this afternoon held an inquest at the Courthouse into the death of John Gill Miller, who was fatally injured at the Proprietary Company's new mill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Davis, a laborer, working at Cobar, was killed yesterday by a fall of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE ambulance was called out about 9 o'clock last night to an accident in Baxter and Saddler's open cut, Proprietary mine. A man named Patrick Ryan, while barring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Leith Napier is slightly improved in his condition to-day, and the doctors attending him are more hopeful than ever…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A DEPLORABLE accident happened about 1 o'clock this morning at the Freemasons' Hotel, whereby Mr. John Cameron Fraser, one of Broken Hill's most popular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A YOUNG enginedriver named Robert Jones, employed at the Block 10 mine, met with a shocking death about 3 o'clock this morning. The particulars supplied by Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Emily Vera Wust, 3 years of age, was burnt to death at Bendigo. Her clothes caught fire whilst she was playing with a Chinese lantern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held at the Courthouse this afternoon into the death of Robert S. Jones, who was killed at Block 10 this morning. A verdict of accidental death, no blame being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AT the Courthouse yesterday afternoon the coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.) held an inquest into the death of Robert Samuel Jones, enginedriver, who was killed at Block 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening James Taylor took a dose of strychnine in a house at Bowden, and though removed to the hospital he died soon after his arrival there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE San Francisco Chronicle of December 28 contains an account of a mining disaster as Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the previous day, by which it was feared about 30 men…
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