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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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Kahanmoku, the famous Hawaiian swimmer, who made a name for himself at the Olympic sports, lost a finger and was nearly drowned yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A dynamite explosion destroyed a copper works at Eluabethpol. Six men were killed by the explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday afternoon, in the presence of hundreds of people, a girl was drowned off the beach at Hampton (Victoria). Mrs. O'Leary, a widow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Charles Warburton, a farmer residing in the Bunbury district, was riding through the bush when he collided with a tree. He was picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A complete block in the trame over the range to the Darling Downs occurred yesterday as the result of a sensational accident. Two miles beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kahanmoku, the famous Hawaiian swimmer, who made a name for himself at the Olympic sports, lost a finger and was nearly drowned yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident occurred at the South mine this morning, in which a miner named Jack O'Regan, a married man, was injured by a fill of ground at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A 12-year-old son of Mr. Tim Brodie, of Green Gully, near Sofala. met with a fatal accident last Tuesday. He was out mustering sheep, and had with him…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two men were drowned in the bay near St.'Kilda on Saturday evening. Four officers of the Federal Statistician's office, J. Coffey, Richmond,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fatal motor accident occurred some time after 11 o'clock on Sunday night at Aspendale. A motor car going towards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nobari, an aviator, was aeroplaning at the Turin aerodrome when he fell 100ft. and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ambulance was called to the Zinc Corporation works at 6.30 o'clock yesterday evening to, convey to the Hospital Mr. W. Hammond, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body found on the beach at Manly on Tuesday, has been identified as that of G. Stetsel. 51, fireman, a native of Southampton, who lately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A number of persons climbed on the roof of a building to watch the Sunderland-Manchester Cup tie at Sunderland. The building collapsed, and 15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A train, conveying Prince Eitel Frederick of Prussia, the German Emperor's second son, collided with a train of petroleum tanks, which became on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A motor car, containing five people, crashed into a telegraph post on the Toorok-road, South Yarra, yesterday morning. The car was wrecked, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. Edden (Minister for Mines) stated yesterday that the amendment to the Miners' Accident Relief Act, passed last session, will come into force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious accident resulting in the destruction of nearly the whole of the top storey of Matthew Goode and Co."s premises in Stephens-place occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensational motor smash occurred at Upper Macedon on Tuesday night owing to A mishap with the' steering gear of a motor-car in which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By an occident which, in the ordinary course, would have been of a trif[?]ing nature, a fisherman named Honans was either drowned or suffocated under…
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