Mine Accident
Another serious mine accident happened at about 2 p.m. to-day, this time at the Junction North mine. The vic tim is a miner named Charles Walters,…
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Accidents, 1908
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A Mining Fatality. Melbourne
A minor named Frank Johnson (58) was yesterday putting in timber at the 600ft. level of the Norman by North mine, Ballarat), when a ton of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mishap to a Train. Brisbane Express Derailed. Eleven Persons Injured. No Lives Lost. Sydney
The north-western mail train from Inverell at midnight on Wednesday had reached a spot three miles on the Sydney side of Blandford, when,…
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Matilda Jatho ([?]) was walking on the Port Melbourne Pier yesterday when she was run down by an engine. Her left leg was smashed. The woman…
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Miss Edith Gelder, of Knightsbridge, was riding a bicycle to Marryatville last night when Mr. F. Berry of Burnside was coming in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kalgoorlie Mining Fatality. Miner Losas His Footing. Kalgoorlie
A miner named Richard Ryan, aged 45, a single man, whilst working at the Boulder Perseverance mine in a pass on the 400ft. level, lost his…
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Matilda Jatho (65) was walking on the Port Melbourne Pier yesterday when she was run down by an engine. Her left leg was smashed. The woman…
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An accident occurred at about 3.20 this afternoon to E. Fitzsimmons, horse driver at the Proprietary mine. He was working on the 800ft. level i[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terribly Burnt. Accident to a Shearer. Sydney
Frank Tully, a shearer, aged 47, was camped near a burning log at Corowa, when his clothes caught fire, and the lower part of his body was so terribly…
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Two accidents, fortunately both of a minor nature, oocurred at the Proprietary mine last night. The first took place at about 6.30 on the 500ft. level…
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Furllior particulars of the accident on the 525ft. lovel at the Southe mine this morning show that while the victim, Thomas Wilson, and his mate Kelly…
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The coroner (Mr. T. Hall) this morning opened an inquiry into the death of Thomas Wilson who was killod in a stope of the South mine yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Annual Naval Regatta. Petty Officer Drowned. Leaves Wife and Two Children. Hobart
At the annual naval [?]o[?]t r[?]gatta yesterday a number of seamen were on the bulwarks of H.M.S. Challenger, when without any warning one ridge…
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At about 11.45 this morning W. Be[?]lken, a timherman working on the 1200ft. level. Block 12, Proprietary minc, was injured by an iron rail…
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Another mine accident occurred at about 2.4G this afternoon, tin's time in the North mine. A miner named Harry Christian was working on the 800ft…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Train Accident. Carriages Roll Down Embankment. Nobody Seriously Injured. [Reuter's Messages.] London
A passenger train travelling at a nigh speed on the Great Central Railway met with a remarkable accident at Wimbley. Part of the engine tender…
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The Commissioner of Police has received, a telegram from Morgan stating that David Rattray, a doekhand on the steamer Mannum, was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Severely Injured. Wellington
Two miners named Alfred Young and William Howes, employed at a mine at Waihi, were severely injured by an explosion of gelignite yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premature Explosion. In a Zeehan Mine. Two Men Injured. Hobart
Through a premature explosion at the Argent mine, Mount Zeehan, yesterday two miners, Don M'Villey and Thomas Evans, were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Painful Accident. Injuries Caused by Circular Saw Quickly Healed by Zam-buk Balm
No matter the cause or extent, o[?] your injury—whether it be the out o[?] a clean knife or the jag of a rusty nail—Zam-Buk is equally capable o[?]…
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