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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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A tramcar which could accommodate about 70 people left the Burwood terminus yesterday afternoon fairly full. A little distance out there is a steep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While going to a case of death in the early hours of Saturday morning, the Rev. F. G. Rogers collided with a meat cart, and sustained a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two brothers named studdart and a companion named Thomas were drowned in Wolli Creek, near Arncliffe, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Frederick Hutchison, aged 26, employed on Bimbowie station, about 20 miles from Olary, S.A.[?] was riding a horse yesterday morning when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a cessation of underground operations at the South mine on Monday and Tuesday last, consequent on the death of Mr. J. A. Williams as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. R. Dorman and W. H. Bennetts, of Beryl-street, North Broken Hill, had an unenviable experience on Thursday afternoon after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. S. Kinnear, a trucker while working on the 800ft. level of the South mine this morning, was severely bruised about the body through a truck…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This morning Mr. Percy Buttfield, manager of the Crystal Foundry, met with a severe accident. He was riding a bicycle down Billygoat Hill in Argent,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On inquiry at the Hospital this afternoon it was learned that Mr. Percy Buttfield, who was severly injured this morning as the result of a bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A double bathing fatality occurred at Mount Victoria yesterday. Shortly after lunch Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Ellis, daughters of Mr. and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United States battleship Minnesota, 17,000 tons, has been sunk in a collision. The Minnesota, a pre-Dreadnought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Hannah Jane Giddon (43) went bathing in the Swan River, near Applecross, yesterday morning, and sank in deep water. She was taken out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recently reported death, arising out of the capsizing of a sulky in which he was travelling, of Mr. William Laurie, who is credited with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the result of an explosion which occurred at a house occupied by Mr. J. De Vualle, Solomontown, Port Pirie, on Monday, Miss Bertha Connelly, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rev. W. H. Robinson, Methodist Minister at Moonta (S.A.), has lost his youngest son, Eric, under tragic circumstances. He was dragged a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fight took place in Swanston-street, near Bourke-street, shortly after halfpast 6 o'clock on Saturday evening reports the Melbourne "Argus"), as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the result of a head-on collision between a motor car and a tram yesterday two persons, occupants of the motor car, lost their lives, and three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents are common to every household, and it is necessary to be ready for such emergencies. A bottle of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment sud…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Gerald Kempe, who met with an untimely end at Morgan, was (says the "Murray Pioneer," Renmark) a wellknown figure for many years in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday afternoon last week, a serious accident happened at Macarthur-street, Newiands, to Mr. J. H. Crougey, poultry farmer, of Victoria[?]…
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