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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
1,298 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 65
Six persons were killed and 100 others injured in a collision between the steamers New York and Central Batavia at New York yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ambulance at 5.30 o'clock this morning received a call to the South mine, where a miner named D. Pratt sustained a dislocated shoulder through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the inquiry concerning the Hawes railway accident, the coroner's jury yesterday roturned a verdict that the victims of the disaster had met their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The death occurred on Saturday of Frederick Alfred Brooks (65), of Queenstown. Deceased was admitted to the Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A pussonger train collided with a ballast train at Paris yesterday, and set it on fire. Two drivers and a stoker were killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young man named Smith, the son of the caretaker of the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, was out bathing on Sunday, when he was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serions blasting accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at the 31-mile camp, on the third section of the railway, 12 miles from Gloucester…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fatal accident occurred at the railway works between Fassivern and Awaba, yesterday morning, a railway guard named Frederick Herbert, being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several men went for a bathe in a spot above the weir at Moe yesterday. A railway navvy named Barney Reid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With regard to the drowning, of the man Daniels at Vivonne Bay, deceased with two other men was fishing on the rocks, when a high wave dashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel Harold Weaver (13), the son of Samuel Weaver, of Hermidale, near Nyngan, was drowned in 7ft. of water in Jordan Creek, Bathurst, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The two men most seriously injured are now progressing favorably. Mr. Bodkin, organiser for the railway workers is [?] town making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrific explosion, resulting in the death of a sewer miner, occurred in a sewer shaft at Fernhill yesterday. Alfred Warner (40), a married man,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A lad named Rollinson died at Biggenden, Queensland, on Sunday night, as is supposed from snake bite. J. Sommerville was driving at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ambulance received a call to the Central mine this afternoon, where a platelayer named T. Humphries sustained a ricked back through lifting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The infant son of James Parker, of Pingelly, aged 15 months, was kicked in the face by a draught horse yesterday. The child's nose, lips, and chin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A miner named Edward Taylor was at work in a stope over the 200ft. level at the South Blocks yesterday morning, when a slab of ore "blistered"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Mor[?] residents, Miss Susan Pearce (54) and Mrs. Boydell, a relative, arrived at the Sydney railway station this morning. Miss Pearce was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Out of the crew of 30 of the German submarine U3, which was sunk at Heikendorf Bay on Monday 27 were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the inquest at Gawler yesterday on the body of Miss May, of Wallaroo, who was killed at Linwood Bridge on Wednesday evening through a…
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