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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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A Frightful Accident. Phaeton Collides with Train. Father and Daughter Killed. Others Seriously Injured. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

William Palmer, of Newtown, was yesterday driving a pair of ponies in a phacton from North Shore, Geelong, with his five…

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A Sydney Tragedy. Man Accidentally Killed by a Friend. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 2

Thomas Barrott (40), a tailer at Surry Hills, was drinking with a friend named John Leahy, when they quarrelled. The latter pushed…

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Accidentally Shot. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

[?]son (13) was yesterday [?] pea rifle at Gunning. [?] the weapon when it [?]…

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Visiting Politician's Accident. Mr. Keir Hardie Progressing Favorably. Wellington

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. (British Labor leader), who met with an accident and had a rib broken, is reported to be progressing favorably towards rocovery…

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Serious Buggy Accident. a Child Drowned. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 4

A buggy containing Mr. Cody, his wife, and two children (Ada, aged 7 years, and Marie, aged 18 months), yesterday backed into the river near…

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Maori Footballer Drowned. Wellington

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 5

John Tairaroa, a member of the first New Zealand team of footballers visiting Australia, was drowned at Otage yesterday…

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A Motor-car Fatality. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 8

An inquest was opened to-day on the body of Doris Hanson (5), who was run over and, killed at Sandringham at 7.30 last night by a motor-car owned…

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The Pea Rifle Fatality. the Inquest

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 8

An inquest was held this morning at the Courthouse, before Mr. M'Kensey, S.M., concerning the death of Wililam Edward Humphries, aged 12 years, who was shot on…

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Victoria. a Seaman Drowned. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 8

Firmin Gaudion (23), a seaman, was drowned at Port Melbourne last night while endeavoring to get aboard the French mail vessel by climbing hand…

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A Jockey-injured. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 8

Patrick Ren, the rider of Swallow, at the B[?]ga races, was seriously injured, the horse falling on him. R[?] received word recently that he had been…

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Sporting. an Injured Jockey. Perth

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 4

Kent, the jockey whose skull was fractured through a fall from Gerardy on the W.A.T.C. course on "Wednesday, is improving, though his condition is…

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Pea Rifle Accident. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 5

Richard Whale (19) was shot in the abdomen yesterday at Goulburn with a pea rifle…

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Motor Car Fatality. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 8

Edward O'Hagan (66) was found lying on the road near Penshurst at 2 o'clock this morning. O'Hagan had been run over by a motor car occupied by Messrs…

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Drowned in a River. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

Albert Dawking, employed at the Cooma post office, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee yesterday…

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A Motorist's Accident. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. Tryon, whilst driving a 60-horsepower Napier car over the Brooklands course yesterday at the rate of 85 miles an hour, burst the tyre of the…

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Proprietary Fatality. the Inquiry on Conniskey

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 January 1908 · page 4

The acting coroner (Mr. M'Kensey, S.M.) hold an inquest (without a jury) at the Courthouse to-day into the death of James, Conniskey, who was…

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A Drowning Fatality. Melbourne, Monday[?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 4

Frank Cornell (13), of Surrey Hills, whilst bathing [?]t Frankston yesterday with other boys, got out of his depth and was drowned…

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The Dromana Fatality. Melbourne, Monday[?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 4

The body of Gladys R[?]isbeck, who was drowned at Dromana in a boating accident on Friday, was found yesterday flouting in the South Channel undisfigured…

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A Mining Fatality. Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

Thomas Elder was killed at the Great Boulder mine yesterday. Elder was working on the r[?]due elevator when the fly wheel broke and in[?]ted such injuries on…

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Fatality at Sea. Man Falls Overboard. And is Drowned. Perth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 2

When the N. D. L. S. Gne[?]ssenan reached Fremantle' yesterday afternoon fron the Eastern States Commander Boalte reported a sad fatality to have…

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