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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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At the Spring Gully mine, Castlemaine, yesterday, three men, James Brown, William Morse, and Robert Scott, were sinking a shaft at the 400ft, level, and were boring into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B. [?]lencovitch, employed at Broken Hill Proprietary [?]ters at Port Pirie, while wheeling a barrow of coke to the heaps, did not notice an engine whistle, with the result…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Golden Horeshoe mine, Kalgoorlie, yesterday, Richard Carrier and Henry South were engaged at the 400ft. level, drilling, when an explosion occurred, Injuring both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A party of pleasure[?]seekers to Sellick's Hill beach were returning [?] [?] last evening, and Mrs. J. Rowley and Mr. W. Haskett took a short cut to the road. The night being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of members of the South Mine Sick Fund was held last night at the Criterion Hotel to consider the bearing of the Miners' Accident Relief Act upon the fund[?] There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alfred Avery, 46, living with his wife and family at Petersham, was found dead on the floor of Bladon's chemist shop, Balmain, yesterday. Decens[?]d was manager for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A remarkable discovery has been made at Laur[?], the body of a man in an advanced stage of decomposition having been found under a bridge in one of the most public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albert Davies was suff[?]icated yesterday by foul air in the Royal George mine, Cullenbone, near Mudgee. The mine had not been worked for some time, and the manager…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several lads were searching for stray hors[?] at Indooroopilly late on Saturday, when two of them, John Hillsd[?] n (13) and Frederick Billsdon (10) su[?]ded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A youth named Hurtle Jones was ramming a charge in a muzzle-loading gun at Coromandel Valley, when the charge exploded, blowing off three of his fingers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Trembull, woodcarter, of Eldorado, was riding on top of a load of wood, when his shaft horse suddenly fell and he (Trembull) was thrown heavily to the ground. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young miner named M'Donald had an alarming experience in Block 11 last night. He stepped on to the covering of a chut[?] and his foot apparently caused the lath on which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Patrick Kelly, underground boss at the Clarence United mine, Bendigo, was badly hurt yesterday by a fall of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 1 o'clock this morning Thomas Carter, a trucker, was fatally injured by a fall of earth at the British mine, and died soon after being admitted to the Hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Piesse, H.P., was mounting a horse when the saddle turned owing to a loose girth and his foot caught in the stirrups and he was [?]ged some distance. He escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Colonial Sugar Reflning Works, Pyrmont, yesterday, William Davidson, 45, was assisting to move a heavy piece of fron by means of a crane, and had raised it several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Marlin Gitson, a student at St. Andreis College, Sydney University, in. company with a friend, Was last Saturday out shooting on the Biogera River, Bundaberg…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.) this afternoon held an inquest into the death of Thomas Carter, who was killed at the British mine this morning. Mr. J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrible railway accident has occurred on the New York, Chicago, and Lake Erie railway. One of the fastest trains on the service was derailed through a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Richard Polley (15) and Charles Atwell (15), residing on the North Shore, were fishing at Balmoral beach yesterday when Polley was attacked by a fit and fell into 3ft…
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