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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 12 of 18
As the result of the recent heavy rains the midland country is in flood. The waters have risen above all the high-water marks of 1884, when a similar flood was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighteen picnickers were killed and 80 injured in a railway collision near Chicago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Joseph Quilty, 60 years of age, whilst attending to the points at the North Melbourne railway station on Saturday was knocked down and run over by a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a train full of pasengers w[?] coming down a hill yesterday at[?] smart pace it struck a [?]d machine with fearful force. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The management of the British Broken Hill Proprietary shows no inclination to allow the council to proceed without strong protest with the construction of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision occurred on the Government railway on Saturday evening. A race train was standing at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Miller asked, seeing that [?]twarmers were now provided on the Broken Hill express, why they were [?] placed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Re the British Company's objection to the gazetted road. The position of this road was determined by the late Minister for Mines, Mr. Fegan, and the municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elizabeth Davidson (25), single, a visitor from Adelaide, was knocked down by a train at North Sydney yesterday. Her legs were amputated, and, though taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking railway accident, paused by the washing away of a culvert [?] the Midland Junction [?]hittering Brook railway line, occurred early yesterday, by which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the S.A. Railway Commissioners forwarded a bylaw which reduced the railway rates for ore on the Broken Hill line he thought it desirable to place on record the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Arthur Griffith, the solidarity Labor candidate for Sturt, addressed a very largely attended meeting at the Federal Hall, Railway Town, last night. Mr. G. Muir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The boys, Lionel Blythen (13) and George Lawson (11), who walked to Melbourne from Ballarat, were formally brought before the City Court on Friday, and discharged,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]A man[?]whose name is unknown, was knocked down by a train in the city on Saturday night and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dunlop road late from Goulburn to Sydney, a distance of 131 1/2 miles came off an Saturday last, and resulted as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A locomotive, and three railway cars [?] through a bridge in Colorado and 80 persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 8 o'clock this morning an elderly man named George Barnett, a watchman at tho British mine, met with a nasty accident. He was crossing the bridge near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the weekly meeting of the above society in the rooms, Gypsum-street, there was a large gathering of members. In the ahsence of the president, Mr. Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The North Melbourne Road Bicycle Championship (25 miles) was run this afternoon, and resulted:—J. Arnst (New Zealand), 1; Goo, 2; Auger, 3. The winner's time was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A public meeting was held last night in the Gypsum-street Church schoolroom. Railway Town, to consider ways and means in connection with the erection of a…
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