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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidentally Shot. Sydney
Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4
[?]son (13) was yesterday [?] pea rifle at Gunning. [?] the weapon when it [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →