It wasn’t only working on the mines that was a dangerous occupation but working on the wood lines, was also marred with frequent accidents. This article is about a well know wood cutter “Ilija Radunovich’ who was killed in a terrible accident at Lakewood. Ilija ws a married man of 45yrs whose wife, Kece, and […]
An Eerie Premonition – Michael Madden
I had been researching the accidental death of this miner because of an entry I found in the Annual Report from the Department of Mines for 1897 which stated, that a miner called ‘John Madden’ had been killed in an accident on the Goongarrie GM. As this name was not one I had listed I […]
The Exchange Hotel Broad Arrow:
Following on from the recent article on the hotels of Broad Arrow I received an email from an OFH reader, John Hanley. His Gt Grandfather James Hanley owned and ran the Exchange Hotel and his family is fortunate in that the original cash book from the hotel has been preserved and passed down through the […]
A Strange Coincidence
Just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and checked all the ‘Mine Accidents’. There have in the past only been […]
Black Flag – ghost towns
BLACK FLAG:- R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for $48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December, the following year, there […]
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