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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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A telegram from Edithburgh reports the discovery of two more bodies, those of a white man and a Lascar, members of the crew of the wrecked steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great rain storm in the Morilda district yesterday drowned a number of cattle and sheep, besides washing big legs to the top of wire fences…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Turne[?] and J. Cairns, tributers at the New Argus mine, Bendigo, were injured yesterday evening by a fall of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning J Rossiter, a miner employed on the South mine, met with a rather painful accident. He was working at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry into the cause of the scaffolding accident at Norwood was continued yesterday, and further adjourned till Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Shaw, coal lumper at Williamstown, who wad injured six months ago whilst working at his calling, was recently found to, have dislocated his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →J. Vickery, a cyclist of repute at Petersburg, was training on a banked track last evening, when the forks of his machine broke while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Steve Minchell was riding his own horse Braeburn in a handicap race at Merrygoen on Saturday. when the animal caused the rider to collide with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While melting down an old metal pump on an open fire at his residence at Pyrmont on Saturday, Thomas Adams, 50 years of age, a second hand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While bathing in the surf at the northern end of Coogee on Suturday, juck Carlson (11), was washed beyond his depth. A girl named Laurine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious accident occurred at Medlow Bath yesterday. Mrs. and Miss Mackellar, tourists from England, were motoring from the Jenolan Caves,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sensational accident occurred yesterday to the Apollo Bay mail coach, which was being driven down Madden's Hill, when the brake broke. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred at a lodging-house at Manchester last night, nine persons being suffocated and many injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Acting Deputy Postmaster-General has received a telegram from the postmaster at Normanton stating that a fierce cyclonic storm from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A somewhat sensational accident occurred at the Australian wharf on Saturday when the steamer Riverina was leaving its berth. As the gangway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Greenhough (28) was shunting trucks at the new jetty at Wallaroo yesterday, when he fell, and his foot was caught in the points, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A pupil teacher at the Hay Public School, named Percy Nicol, was drowned while bathing in the Murrumbidgee yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ambulance received a call to the Central mine at about 1.50 this morning where Walter Smallacombe, a miner, working at the 1000ft. level,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon H. Smith, a married man, employed as a laborer on the Central mine, met with an accident of a rather…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A weatherboard house0 at Yulima (Victoria) was destroyed by fire last night. The occupants (Mr. and Mrs. James Lonn), an elderly couple, and…
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