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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 4

Maud Gardner, aged 12 years, residing with her parents at Corowa, was preparing her father's meal when her dress ignited. She rushed outside and was terribly burned, so…

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Zinc Works Fatality. The Inquest. Peculiar Medical Evidence

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 4

MR. MAITLAND, P.M., this afternoon held an inquest at the Courthouse into the death of Ralph G. Maunsell (not Alfred Mansell), who was fatally injured at the Zinc works late on…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 2

Fred Googin, a miner working at Wyalong, has been killed by a fall of earth. MELBOURNE, Saturday. Henry Armstrong, aged 30 years, was…

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Four Youths Drowned. WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 February 1900 · page 2

Six youths were yachting in the harbor on Saturday afternoon when their boat upset, and Herbert Whittem, Montague Whittem, Henry Thane, and John Thane were drowned, Burton…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Shocking Boating Fatality. Upset in Sydney Harbor. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 February 1900 · page 2

A heavy north-east wind caused a choppy sea in Sydney Harbor yesterday, and led to a shocking boating fatality. Five persons, consisting of Mr. Ralph Leigh and his wife,…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

A bush worker named John Stevens has been found dead near Cunnamulla of thirst and exposure. PERTH, Wednesday…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Two Miners Kllied. KALGOORLIE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 2

Two miners, Davies and Uren, working in the Lake View Boulder Junction mine, were, in company with a mate, descending the shaft in a caze yesterday, with a quantity of…

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Accidents and Fatalities [By Telegraph.] Suicide of a Club Secretary. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 2

Mr. Cadell, secretary of the weld Club, Perth, was found dead yesterday in the Perth Park with a bullet wound in his head, apparently self-inflicted. Deceased left a lotter…

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Serious Equestrian Accident

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4

WILLIAM FERGUSON, 18, a hairdresser, met with a serious accident this morning. He waa ont at White Lead, training a hores belonging to his brother-in-law,…

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Serious Equestrian Accident

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 4

WILLIAM FERGUSON, 18, a hairdresser, met with a serious accident this morning. He was out at White Lead, training a horse belonging to his brother-in-law,…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fall of Earth. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 2

Near Armidale, on Thursday, five men, Boness, Northey, Wilder, Devilia, and Donoghue, were working in a mine shaft together at the 80ft. level. A…

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Drowned while Bathing. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 February 1900 · page 2

Constable Scannell, aged 44, was drowned, in the baths at South Melbourne yesterday…

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A Mysterious Accident. A Shift Boss Killed

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 2

A shift boss named Henry Wheare, employed at the Junction mine, met his death in an unaccountable way shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. The knocked-line in the shaft…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 2

Kate Fox, a resident of Geelong, was burnt to death yesterday. While cooking, her flannelette wrapper caught alight. ADELAIDE, Tuesday…

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The Junction Fatality. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 February 1900 · page 4

AN inquest was held at the courthouse this afternoon by Mr. Maitland, P.M., into the death of Henry Wheare, who was killed at the Junction mine early this morning. Mr…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatal Results of an Error. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 February 1900 · page 2

Mark Wright, a resident of Young, accidentally mixed some arsenic in lieu of carbonate of soda with a drink of lemonjuice and water and drank it. He soon…

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Found Drowned. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1900 · page 2

Harry Miscall, an old identity of Thargomindah, has been found drowned in the river…

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Drowned at a Picnic. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1900 · page 2

At a Wesleyan Sunday-school picnic at Beltana yesterday, a boy named Bradley went away from his companions for a bathe in the river and was drowned. The only…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegrtaph.] a Miner Killed. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 February 1900 · page 2

Wilfred Collins, a miner, accidentally fell down a shaft in a mine at Tuena and was killed…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Gored by a Bull. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 2

Mrs. Evans, aged 70, has been gored to death by a bull at Broadwater…

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