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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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The Queenscliff accident, which occurred during the Kitchener manoeuvres yesterday morning, and resulted in 13 men being injured, has been the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At 6.30 on Saturday morning a railway accident occurred at Claremont, midway between Fremantle and Perth, whereby 10 goods trucks became…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William D. Goodsir (32) was sailing in a yacht in the Harbor on Saturday afternoon in company with two friends. He stood up to attend to a part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Swinton, 11, was drowned in the river at Footscray on Saturday. His two companions witnessed the tragedy, but were afraid to seek…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Czarina, 1046 tons, belonging to the Southern Pacific Trading Company, was wrecked yesterday at Cook's Bay during a violent storm…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Louis Lyons (25), a hairdresser, was caught in the undertow while surfbathing on the Newcastle beach yesterday afternoon, and drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday the ketches Bronzewing (78 tons) and Napperby (70 tons), both outward bound from Port Ade laide, the former for Mount Dutton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Twcowoomba on Saturday Lily Hanrahan, 3, was playing close to Munro's timber tramline, when an engine approached unnoticed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The most disastrous floods ever experienced in the north have occurred in the Tamworth district. The town itself is extensively…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charles Tyers (18) was about to fire on a rabbit. It ran close to him, and he lifted his gun to strike it with the butt. The charge exploded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the collision between the Napperby and Bronzewing off Largs Bay on Saturday, Captain Blanch, master of the Bronzewing, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. W. N. Dove, S.M., this morning opened a coronial inquiry into the circnmscances of the death of James Henry Martin, who was killed in a lift…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Mard, aged 20, was bailing out a boat at Freshwater Bay. Claremont, yesterday, when he fell overboard, and was drowned. Mard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sad fatality occurred at the North mine this afternoon shortly before 1 o'clock, when a young man named H. Martin was killed in a lift accident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Howard Nutall, aged 38, an oiler employed at the Great Fingall mine, was fatally injured on Friday night as the result of the blowing out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Kerr, ex-M.L.A. (Aayor of Buninyong), whlist driving yesterday, met with an accident. The horse, bolted, and Mr. Kerr was thrown cut of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hillias Smith, the member of the Bendigo contingent of Light Horse, who was injured at the encampment at Seymour by a kick from a horse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A peculiar accident happened to Mr. Hugh Johrst[?] jun., at Miavip (Vic[?]. He [?] an indelible leadp[?]l, which full [?] or his hand. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Shill, whilst working a battery at the Champion mine, Castlemaine, dropped sodium into a tub of water, causing an explosion. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As far as can be ascertained, the country between Queensland and inverell, and as far west as Walgett, has been inundated…
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