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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:— "The latest reports show that the German attacks at the Hindenburg line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At C[?]erondon on tuesday a fatal accident occurred at the Mount Malvern silver and lead mine, Oliver Powell, of Clarendon, being the victim…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A telegraphic message received in Broken Hill from Pooncarie, to-day reports the sinking of the steamer Alfred in the Darling River, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The passenger, train bound from Sydney to Melbourne rah into a goods train when about 14 miles from Wodonga yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday G. Groves, aged 18 years, was engaging in the destruction of foxes on the outskirts of Corona station, 36 miles from Umberumberka…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty persons were killed and hundreds injured, and many houses were wrecked, by the explosion on May 7 at the Mitsubishi munition plant,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Darcy Pink, a well known jockey and one of the best riders in the west of New South Wales, was fatally injured while riding at Tottenham, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon H. Poole, employed on the Junetion North Mine, while driving a locomotive, had four fingers and thumb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. R. Allan, the manager of Lenard's Pictureland, to-day received word from the military authorities that Private J. Cruickshank, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday ex-Stoker R. F. Gordon, while engaged in wood-cutting on the returned soldiers' wood area in the vicinity of Box Tank, cut his left foot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A French naval vessel, the Colbert, was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean Sea on April 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Swedish steamers while on the voyage from England to Swedish ports were torpedoed and sunk by German submarines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A French naval vessel the Colbert, was torpedoed, and sunk by en enemy submarine in the Mediterranean Sea on April 30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Figures in the report of the board administering the Miners' Accident Relief Fund show that in the 16 years of the fund's existence the amount paid in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With her flag at half-mast, a Brit ish liner reappeared at a United States port, after having sailed recently with a hospital unit for the war zone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents are common to every household, and it is necessary to be ready for such emergencies. A bottle of D[?] Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment and a roll of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While Albert Smith (32), living at Redfern and employed as a fitter in the interlocking branch of the Railway Department, was engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shooting accident occurred at Dowlingville yesterday. The 18-year-old son of Mr. J. S. Harding, of Belair, and a companion were going shooting,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This afternoon a motor car smash occurred at the corner of Oxide and Thomas streets. Mr. Andrewartha, with five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirty persons were killed and fifty injured and heavy damage to property ocasioned by a tornado which swept the Sedgwick and Harvey counties in…
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