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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents
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John Boggins (30), second officer of the steamer Bendigo, fell 15 feet over a cliff at Killarney yesterday afternoon when the limb of a tree broke and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coroner found that Jessie Dunbar, whose body was recovered from the River Yarra died from drowning, but there was no evidence to show with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henry Zeikle, an elderly man, was drowned yesterday while trying to cross the Herbert River. His two companions managed to struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A large party of students from the Christian Brothers' College. Wollongong, was on Cambewarra Mountain yesterday when their car got out of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amos Avery, of Te Kulti, New Zealand, was sealing a coffin, when a blow lamp he was using exploded. He was unable to reach the stairs owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Crimlisk (48) stepped directly in front of an approaching engine at a level crossing near Malanda station. Instinctively she clutched the bars of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →W. Axleby was working on the slag dumps at the Central mine this morning when a Piece of 10 x 8 timber fell on his foot. He was taken in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Penrith district coroner resumed the inquiry to-day into the death of two women, Miss Annie Christina Haigh (36) of Fitzroy. Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry Farry (50), a resident of Ashfield, was run down by a train at Clyde railway station last night and frightfully injured. Both legs were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A painful accident, happened to the five-year-old son of Mr. O. Mercer to-day, near the railway reservoir. He was playing with other children, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Italian was killed and another seriously injured when a charge of gelignite exploded unexpectedly in a well they were sinking at South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible shipping disaster occurred just outside of Hong Kong this morning when the steamer Hsin Wah, from Shanghai, went on the rocks and sank in deep water. About 300 passengers and a crew of 100 were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight men who left the stranded Latvian steamer Volka in a lifeboat weer drowned when the boat overturned. The steam lifeboat. Hook of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "White, Star liner Majestic docked 15 hours late after encountering the worst storm for several years. It was hit by two big waves. One man was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two men had a narrow escape from death last evening while working in a tunnel at Batesford quarries. Geelong. They were Messrs. John D'Arey…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three persons, Robert Brown, Sylvia Brown and Marjorie Brown were injured when a motor car and motor cycle, and sidecar collided at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Bucharest message states that when the railway exports from Grajora broken axe an orange was to Balnia for a relief ain. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The body of Walter Kennaugh (7) was found floating in the old Brighton Baths at Marrickville to-day. Although the baths were fairly crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →J. M. Siggins, a member of the South Australian Colts' team, which will meet the West Australian Colts to-day, was struck inside the knee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →J. M. Siggins, a member of the South Australian Colts' team, which will meet the West Australian Colts to-day, was struck inside the knee…
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