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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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The Wallaroo Explosion. Condition of the Injured. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 2

The three men, Sandow, Pretty, and Alkins, injured by the recent explosion on board the H.M.S. Wallaroo, continue in hospital…

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Accidents and Fatalities [By Telegraph.] Discovered in a Dream. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 2

An inquest was held at the Rookwood Asyium yesterday on the body of an inmate named Neil Mashteson, 41, who was found dead in a waterhole in a…

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Drowned in the River Onkaparinga. [By Telegraph.] A[?], Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon a Mr. Stacey with a friend and his three sons went fiehing in the Onkaparinga River. One of the boys got his hook caught…

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Accidents and Fatalities Sydney

Western Grazier · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

George Rates, a fattier, and his son, were overtaken by the Brisbane mail train, while returning home on a tricycle. The son threw himself [?]…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fosticker's Fate. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

Thomas Ge[?]des, a fossicker, 55 years of age, was wi[?] his neph[?]w working at Magpie, near Ballarat, when an embankment 16th above them give…

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Accident at the Central

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

A miner named Jamen M'Cab[?] was yesterday evening working at the Central mine in the 700[?], level when a fall of ground took place, atriking him on…

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Accidents and Fatalities [By Telegraph.] Accident to a Miner. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

Charles Thompson, a young married man, was yesterday evening working underground in the Hector mine, Rockhampton, when a bucket containing…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Four Miners Injured. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

At the Junction Reefs gold mine, Ca[?]oar, yesterday, two holes had been loaded with dynamite and the usual fuse applied and lighted. The men working in the mine…

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Third Test Match[?] Accident to F[?]ster. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

While as p[?] at the n[?] on the Oval to-day, [?] E Fo[?]ter, one of the E[?]glishmen, [?]eceived a blow with a [?] which [?] his thumb, but it is…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegrpah.] Boy's Practical Joking. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 2

Some Cobar boys yesterday took spraga out of three railway waggons standing on the Capper Mine Company's aiding, and left them run down…

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Fisherman Drowned SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 2

While a [?]bing party was on George's River yesterday a boy namsd F[?]ed Wray went in for a swim and got beyond his depth. Samuel Bebb, a…

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Four Woman Drowned. AUCKLAND

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 2

The nisce of a Mrs. Thomson while bathing at Rive[?]on, in the South Island, on Saturday got out of her d[?]pth Mrs. Thomson, Mrs. Fisher,…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Street TRagedy. MELBOURNE, Saturday Night

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 2

G[?]ge B[?]ker municipal contractor at Por[?] Melbourne, was found [?] consious in the street there about 3 0'clock this morning and he died some…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Acid in Mistake for Wine. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 2

Francis M'Donald, of near Clare, sat with a sick friend all the other night. Early in the morning he took a drink of what he thought was colonial wine,…

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Telegraphic News Drowning Accidents Sydney

Western Grazier · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 3

While a party of youths were [?] in George's River yesterday, Alfred Wray, aged of [?], get beyond his depth, and a man named Bibb, who…

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Underground Railway Accident. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 2

Another [?]ident occurred in the Pa[?] undergronnd railway yeaterday, near Belleville station, A number of passengers were Injured…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall Over a Bridge. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 2

Francis R. [?]ffle, laborer, 22 years of age, was found under the Campa[?] River bridge at Elmore yesterday with his [?]eck broken. He is supposed to…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fail of Stone. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 2

Walter Battles was yesterday working in the Pioneer mine, Bright, preparing for blooking out stone in some old drives. His mates had…

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Accidents and Fatalities. Fall into a River. BOURKE

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

The steamer Florence Annie, which has arrived here from Wilcannia, had on board Alexander Falls, an old-age pentioner, who met with an accident…

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Accidents Will Happen

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 3

IN the best regulated families, in the best fitted factories, and in every walk of life, accidents will happen in spite of all precautions. Hence, if…

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