Murder on an English Railway. a Lady Injured
A REMARKABLE murder on January 17 was committed on the South-Western railway. The victim was Mr. William Pearson, a gentleman farmer, of No. 1…
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Accidents, 1901
622 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 32
The Lazarus Mine Accident
THE Age, reporting the explosion in the Lazarus mine, Be[?]digo, already mentioned in our telegram[?] said: The Lazarus mine at New Ch[?]m was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Railway F[?]ttler Killed. SYDNEY
John Colman, a fettler, residing at the T[?]ranville railway gate, near Scone, the other day obtained a day's leave to visit Sydney on private business. He returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proclamation Day in Adelaide. The Imperial Troops. An Immense Crowd and a Hot Day. A Balloon Accident. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
The weather was very warm for the Proclamation of the King demonstration yesterday, being 99 degrees in the shade and 160 degrees in the sun…
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A [?]. W. weeks ago Messrs. F. A. Braddock and B. C. Wiltshire, local treasurer and secretary respectively of the Junction mine committee, wrote to the inspector of mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Yesterday afternoon a man named James Connolly, of Brunswick, Victoria, [?] beside a tree in Hindmarsh square and shot himself in the head. He was taken to the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nearly an Accident. LONDON, Friday
An electric tram running along a Berlin street,yeeterday nearly collided with a carriage occupied by the German Emperor and Empress…
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[?], 17, whilst [?] at the Curl Curl Lagoon, near Manly, yesterday, was washed off the rocks and drowned…
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Owing to the capsizing of a boat in Bantry Bay, seven bluejackets from H.M.S. Resolution were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Monday, March 4, 1901. Miners' Accident Relief
[?] the Miners' Accident Relief Act a committee has to be appointed for every [?]. At every pay the mine[?] makes a deduction from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Gun Accident. a Boy Accidentally Shot
A SHOCKING accident, surrounded by peculiarly painful circumstance, happened at Purnamoota yesterday morning, resulting in the death of Reginald Walter Hall, 15, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Burning Accident. ADELAIDE
Maggic [?], aged 15, employed at the Woolsued Hotel, Bordertown, went into a washhouse to light a fire on Saturday, and while there her clothes [?] ignited. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By [?] A Fatal Assault. SYDNEY
William Cally (or Sulley), [?], living in Newtowa-road, who was 83 brutally a[?]saulted near his reside[?]ce on Thursday night, expired in the hospital on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Accident Relief Fund. to the Editor
SIR,—The correspondence between the Junction [?] accident relief committee and the secretary of the fund in Sydney reveals a state of things which should be altered…
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The body of a half-caste [?]ed David Brown was found in the river at Balranald. The deceased had been drinking with two whites, Collins and O'Neil, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Purnamoota Shooting Fatality. Magisterial Inquiry
MR. MAITLAND, P.M., this afternoon held a magisterial inquiry at the conrth [?]as into the death ot Regin[?]ld' Walter Hall, who died yesterday afternoon from the effects of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Sewer Accident. Four Men Overcome by Gas. One Dies Going to the Hospital. [By Tllegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon
James btevens, plasterer, mar[?]ied,residing at North Sydney; [?], Onallis, residing, at Weston-io[?]d, Balmain; Michael Conbeady, single, Resiging at the Imperial Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By TELEGRAPH.] Mistaken for a Rabbit. An Old Fossicker's Sad End. SYDNEY
At Lewis Ponds, near Orange, William Rusden, 62, a miner, was on Saturday evening fossicking near the bank ft a creek while (another elderly man, Caleb Cundy, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident on the Proprietary. Engine and Trucks Leave the Line
AN engine and portion of a train of laden' trucks were derailed on the Proprietary railway line, between the culvert and Block 10, this morning. The engine turned over on its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disaster on a 'Frisco Steamer. Five Men Killed and Five Injured[?] [By Telegraph.] Auckland
The steamer Ventura arrived yesterday. The Ventura's run from Philadelphia to Sa[?] Francisco was 14 hours longer tha[?]. Sonoma's, owing to the bursting of a…
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