Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Hugh Brocker, a police pensioner, who took a prominent part in the capture ot the Kelly gang, suicided at Wallan yesterday by blowing his brains out…
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Accidents, 1900
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Drowned in a Mine. MELBOURNE
A fatal accident occurred at the M'Evoy mine, Eldorado, on Saturday. The water burst in, and Thomas Dunstan ordered the men up, while he and another tried to effect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fell Down a Shaft. MELBOURNE
Thomas Hefford fell down a shaft on the Victorian Estate, Maryborough, on Saturday and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Burnt to Death. ADELAIDE, Monday Evening
Matilda Tozer, aged 13, living at Clarendon, was working in a house on Saturday, when her clothes caught fire. She rushed into the garden, and before the flame could…
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The Sydney Morning Herald prints this as being from the North American's London correspondent:—In spite of the strict censorship, a private letter from Charles Hoby,…
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A Cooktown telegram says that the body of James Wilson, an immigrant by the Duke of Norfolk, has been found floating in the breakwater…
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JUST at the change of shifts of Friday afternoon (says the Eldorado correspondent of the Argus) residents were surprised to hear that another accident had occurred at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Watching the Contingent. SYDNEY
James Pennent, aged 10, while watching the Bushmen's Contingent procession yesterday, was kicked on the head by one of the contingent horses. He was taken to the…
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EDWARD WALKER, a [?]omberman employed at Block 14 mine, met with an accident of a slight but painful nature a bout 11 o'clock this morning. The pump underground…
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THE coach that left Broken Hill last Saturday for Milparinka had an exciting time between Cobham and the latter place. First one of the wheels came off; but fortunately this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parthian's Accident. MELBOURNE, Friday Afternoon
Parthian was out on the track to-day, but was given merely walking exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatal Mine Accident. SYDNEY, Monday
A miner named James Boach, who has been, working at Stockton, was killed on Saturday by a fall of coal. The accident was caused by the removal of a sprag, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By TELEGRAPH.]. Four Children Burned to Death. AUCKLAND
A fire has occurred at Balclutha, Involving tragical loss ot life. Four children were in the house of. farmer named James Christie when the Hames broke out; and, their exit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fatal Collision with a Calf. MELBOURNE
Thomas Kilpatrick, aged 40, a jockey, of Daylesford, was schooling a horse yesterday, when it collided with a calf. Kilpatrick was thrown and killed…
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Late yesterday afternoon a trucker named Nicholas Omasko sustained serious inju[?] at Block 14. Omasko was working at the 100ft. level, and while trying to lift a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Eatco by Dogs. MELBOURNE
John Thorpe, an old man, has been found dead at Maryborough, and his body had been partly eaten by dogs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fossicker Smothered. MELBOURNE, Thusday
Samuel Tanpan, of Maryborough, was smothered by a fall of earth in a surface; working ia which he was fossicking in that district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] An Awful Death. Father and Son Smothered In Chaff. ADELAIDE
Farther particulars have been received of the death of Mr. Charles Forster, proprietor of the Knfield Chaff Mills, recorded last evening. It appears that: Forster was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Pec[?]liar Brownig Fatality. SYDNEY
Mabel Allen, a baby of 18 montas, was playing with a candlestick while her mother was attending to her ho[?]hold duties. The little one let the candlestick fall into a…
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Mrs. Thomas Mannell, residing with her husband at Sofala, took down a gun to shoot a bird. The cap snapped, and so another cap was procured; and it was only just put…
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