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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Terrible Railway Fatality. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 2

Elward Both, a railway ganger on duty at Axedale, was yesterday afternoon knocke down by an excursion train and terribly injured, the clothes…

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Fatality in Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 1

Within a couple of hundred yards from the spot where F orence Horton was murdered on Saturday evening another fatality occurred this…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Cebar Miner Killed. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 2

George Rathgeber a miner, was killed in the Cobar gold mines yesterday by a fall of rock, He leaves a widow and family…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

A trolly accident occurred on the railway line at Gosford yesterday afternoon, when Alfred Gardiner (65) received a fractured skull and died…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Injured at Cricket, SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 2

Thomas M'Evoy (17), a resident of Waterloo, was wicket keeping in a cricket match on Saturday afternoon when a batsman struck him on the…

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Accidents and Fatalities

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident (reports the Grazier) [?]ppened the other day to Mr. H[?]r[?]d Murphy, propri[?]or of the line of mail coaches running to…

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Cycling Fatality. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 2

Last evening a led named B[?]gar Mu[?]ller died from injuries received in a bicycle accident at Campbelltown…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Serious Buggy Mishap. Member of Parliament Injured. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 2

Mr. R. T. Donaldson, M.L.A. for Tamut, was driving with his wife to the Tumberumba Show yesterday when his horse bolted and came in…

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A Blasting Accident. MELBOUNRE, Thursday

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 2

Samuel Da[?]ziel, a resident of Costerfield, was working at the Waranga Basin works, blasting and mullocking, when a charge of dynamite exploded…

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Collision in Mid-ocean

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 4

ADVICES from England by mail state that the barque inverlyon, which left Port P[?] for Ant[?] on October 15, was sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean. She was in collision…

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Accidents and Fatalities. Suicide of a Bank Manager. [By Telegraph.] Perth

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 2

An inquest was held at Mount M[?]olm yesterday on the body W. Armstrong, manager of the local branch of the Western Australian Bank. A…

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Collision in Mid-ocean

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 4

ADVICES from England by mail state that the barque Inverlyon, which left Port P[?] for Antwerp on October 15, was sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean. She win in collision…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Bitten by a Bulldog. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

John Morti[?]s was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from loss of blood. He was bitten in the face, near the month, by a bulldog. The dog…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph] Burned to Death. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 March 1904 · page 2

Mrs. I[?]bella S[?]rt, employed ashousekeeper to W. Ca[?]s, a resident of Dale-street, Port Adelaide, was discovered in her room on Saturday[?]…

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Frederick Kidman Drowned. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

Frederick Kidman, a brother of C. N Kidman, the "Cattle King," was drowned while attempting to swim a flooded creek near the Fitzroy River,…

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A Steamer Ashore. a Seaman Drowned. Passenger Missing. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 4

The steamer Araw[?] upon arrival at Cooktown on Friday, reported that the steamer [?] o' Gowries had been blown ashore in a gale and was…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall from a Cab. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

Mrs. Kennedy, aged 70 years, living Fremantle, fell from a cab yesterdaday and died from injuries and shook…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph. a Farmer's Suicide. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 2

Estelle Dye, a well-known farmer to the Corowa district, has committed suicide by hanging. George Gess, a sanitary man…

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Barrier Miner. Wednesday, March 16, 1904. the Miners' Accident Fund

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 2

THE Miners' Accident Relief Fund represents the most notable achievement in State industrial assurance yet recorded in Australia. In some…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Drivind Mish[?]ps. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 2

A farmer named H. Cowwarr was driving yesterday over a level crossing across the railway line at T[?]n when a train sm[?]shed into…

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