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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Accident to the Yacht Shamrock Iii. Result of a Sudden Squall. Sir T. J. Lipton's Escape. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

The accident to Sir T. J. Lipton's yacht Shamrock III., built as challenger for the America Cup, was an exceedingly sensational one…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall Down a Shaft. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

Henry Vogel, a miner, employed in Kennedy shaft, Mount Perry Copper Proprietary, Bandaberg, fell down a shaft a distance of 200ft, on Saturday,…

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Three Persons Drowned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

The Adelaide Follce Department has received word, regarding the Port Elliston drowning disaster, that the bodies of Mr. Myers and the Misses…

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The South Fatality. The Inquest

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

THE coroner (Mr. T. Hall) held an inquest at the courthouse yesterday afternoon into the cir[?]nces of the death of Gustav G[?]bel, who was killed…

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Two Men Drowned. WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

The two men drowned from the Castle Holme yesterday, by the upsetting of the captain's gig, were Leonard Cross (second officer) and a…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Bolting Horses. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

Mr. J. M'Lerie, of the New South Wales Forest Department, was driving a pair of horses in a light vehicle into Gilgand[?] yesterday when the…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Found Drowned. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

An inquest on the body of the man Conway, late of Alb[?]marlo station, New South Wales, whose body was found in the Port River on Monday,…

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Injured by a Fall of Earth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

At 25 minutes past 9 o'clock last night the ambulance received a call from the Proprietary mine, where a serions accident had occurred. James Waldron,…

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Accidents and Fatalities, [By Telegraph] Run Over by a Train, ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 2

Ernest Roberts, a laborer, who had his feet so terribly crashed by a train at the Adelaide railway station yesterday morning, died in the hospltat last…

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Terrible Mining Fatality. Two Men Killed at Castlemaine. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 April 1903 · page 2

A dreadful accident occurred at Castlemaine last evening, David Harry Johns (31) and Robert Arthur Davey (29) were beating out a stope in…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Storekeeper Suicides. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 April 1903 · page 2

A. Disher, a storekeeper, residing at Bega, killed himself yesterday. After conversing with Major Bland, Disher entered his shop and shot himself with…

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A Fall of Earth. One Miner Killed, Another Injured. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 April 1903 · page 2

S. Mitchell and H. Price, Miner[?] working at the Fort B[?]urke gold mines, Cobar, were buried on Saturday by a fall of earth. The former, when…

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Accident at the Proprietary

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 April 1903 · page 2

An accident happened yesterday evening as the Proprietary mine to Clarence Henry E[?]ott, a trucker, working at the 300ft. level of Block…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Crushed by a Tree. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 April 1903 · page 2

A young man named [?]ames Bennett, engaged cu[?]ting piles near Deep Creek, on the Richmond River, did not return to camp at night and his…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Run Over by Trains. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 2

The death of F Brennan, M.A., [?]tor, who was run over by a train, and killed, at Yass yesterday morning, was the subject of an inquest…

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Mine Accident

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 1

AN accident occurred this afternoon at the P[?]oprfetary mine. A timberman named Harry Davis, working in Block 13, at the 400ft. level, fell down…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Blown Out to Sea. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 4

Charles and William Sheather, of Bulli, in company with Edward King and Issac Franklin, left Bulli for Sydney last week to purchase and take…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Mine Accidents in the West. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 May 1903 · page 2

Thomas Bath, president of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, Kalgoorlie, was overcome by fames in the Great Boulder Main Reef mine…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph] Unloading a Piano, SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

At Corowa yesterday David Grimmone, a carrier, with the assistance of a couple of other men, was unloading a piano from a lorry, when the piano…

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Serious Mining Accident, PERTH

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 2

A serious accident, involving a fatality, occurred at the Lake View Consols mine, Kalgoorile, to-day. A mines of stone, weighing, roughly, 10…

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