Mine Accidents
At about noon to-day a carpenter named N. J. Marrow, employed on the North mine, was working on the De Bavay plant when a chisel slipped and…
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Accidents, 1907
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Mine Accidents
The ambulance was called at an early hour this morning to Block 12 where it was found that a miner named. Herbert Sandy had received several…
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Alfred Lockwood, employed at the Wallaroo smelters, while engaged in shunting yesterday, was knocked down, and the wheel of a truck passed over…
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Patrick Warren (18) and John Brown (15) were drowned while bathing in a waterhole at Enfield yesterday…
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George Burrell, underground manager at the Pelaw Main colliery, was on Saturday crushed to death between skips…
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A telegram from Kapunda states that a lad named Herman Mattn[?]r was drowned in a dam on W. Vogell's farm at Allendale on Sunday. He was living…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. a Coaching Fatality. Brisbane
Yesterday the horses attached to the Longreach couch shied at Ernestina and capsized the vehicle. The [?]ooach fell on a boy, Daniel Eyre, a son of the…
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A miner named John Ledgerwood, working between the 500 and 600 levels of Block 10 mine, was injured by a fall of earth last night. Some earth…
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A telegram from Kapunda states that a lad named Herman Mattner was drowned in a dam on W. Vogell's farm at Allendale on Sunday. He was living…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extraordinary Accident. Part of a Stage Gives Way. Horses Precipitated 30ft. and Killed. Narrow Escape Of Riders. Perth
An accident unique in the history of the Australian stage occurred last night. "The Favorite," which William Anderson's Company is playing…
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Mrs. Bridget Drew, aged 70, and her granddaughter, aged 7 months, were burnt to death at Warrnambool yesterday. The child's mother, Mrs…
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A collision occurred in the harbor yesterday between the steamers Kurraba and Northumbria. The latter's bulwarks and skylights were smashed…
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J. Brown, of the firm of Brown and Jolly, builders, of Lismore, was drowned at Brunswick Heads yesterday. He was in a small punt, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality to a Councillor. Sydney
Councillor Kennedy, of Crockwell, was killed yesterday by falling under a dray loaded with wood…
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While driving a pair of horses in a buggy yesterday Mrs. Carse, wife of a schoolmaster, was thrown out and died from fracture of the skull…
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While J. Vallence and L. Stevens were returning from a duck shooting expedition at Kerang yesterday Vallence's gun went off while he was…
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The battleships Commonwealth and Albemarle collided 150 miles north of Lisbon yesterday. They are being taken to Gibraltar for repairs. The…
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An electric lamp cleaner yesterday came in contact with a live wire. The resultant shock caused him to fall upon a pile of tram rail[?] that was on the…
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A miner named Chris. Bowman, working on the 300ft. level of Block 14 last night, slipped and fell whilst attempting to lift a piece of 10 x 10…
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The battleship Commonwealth, which collided with the Allendale shipped hundreds of tons of water, and the necessary repairs to the vessel will…
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