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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
1,195 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 12 of 60
A terrible, disaster (according to the Chicago correspondent of the "Daily Chroniclo" of January 21) occurred this afternoon at the new "crib" which is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The timber ship Arad broke adrift from her moorings on Sunday at Melton. While reshipping a boat which had been lowered to pick up the broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday the 6-year-old son of James Joyce, a coke burner, at North Ipswich, carried three dynamite detonators home in a match box, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonel Stanley, the Victorian Military Commandant, and a party of officers were returning on Monday in a motor car from Cape Schanck, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nothing but good can result in giving to the public some hint as to the various incidents in which Mrs. Kate Mackie, of No. 2 Stantey-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to the propeller becoming en[?] when starting his machine yesterday. Wilbur Wright (the American aeroplanist) was thrown to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W. M'Connell yesterday met with an injury at Goulburn in a peculiar manner. While after rabbits he placed the butt of his pen rifle on the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Both Captain Hansen and the Merchant Service Guild have petitioned in favor of the restoration of the certificate of Captain Hansen or for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →G. O. Smith, manager of Bundy Ulumbla station, was brought to Deniliquin by motor car yesterday, suffering from a fracture of the right arm,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two boys named Robert and Albert Sipponen, 18 and 16 years respectively, were the victims of attacks by a bull. On Tuesday evening Albert entered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. W. C. Brooker's 10-year-old son met with a serious tram accident at Hindmarsh yesterday. Both of his thighs were broken. The boy was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 11 o'clock yesterday morning Harry Walker, of Dunoon, and Cecil Chisholm, of Corndale, were fishing from a boat just inside the Brunswick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Yarwood and Thomas Arthur were yesterday working in stones at the 1045ft, level of the New Moon mine, Bendigo, when four sets of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arthur Williams, a wheat lumper, was sleeping on a stuck at Hopetoun last night. He fell off whilst asleep and was budly hurt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Pearson (36) was drowned in Darling Harbor on Saturday evening when attempting to recover his hat, which had blown into the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The coroner's inquest into the Batlow fatality, in which one boy accidentally shot his brother with a pea rifle, and then committed suicide,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two trains collided yesterday at Tonbridge (Kent), three persons being killed and twelve injured. The inspector [?] stopped the Margate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man whose name is not available, but who has been employed at the Pilliga scrub clearing works, was shot at West Narrabri on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. F. Schmidt, licensee of the Alma Hotel, was the victim of a trap accident yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the accident was without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edward Long (23) fell over a gap at the South Head, a distance of 70ft. on Saturday night, and escaped with a sprained ankle. About 9 o'clock…
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