Name

Date

District

Name Of Mine

Remarks

Source

Craig, Harry

10 Jul 1895

Croydon

Iguana Spare Ground

Injured. Explosion of blasting materials. (Contusions to left arm and side)

1896/4/147

Craig, Harry

25 Feb 1899

Croydon

Jubilee Consols

Injured. Carried over the tip by the truck through neglecting to close the door. (Bruised)

1900/2/258

Craig, Henry

26 Feb 1892

Croydon

No.1 W. Iguana Block

Injured. Returned too soon to shot supposed to have missed fire when it exploded and caught him. (Cut on forehead and hand)

1893/3/661

Craig, Stewart

11 Nov 1893

Eidsvold

East Mount Rose

Injured. Fall of shovel down shaft. (Wounded Hand)

1894/3/933

Craigh, Joseph

10 Aug 1889

Etheridge

Speiro No. 1 W

Killed. Rope broke in shaft, bucket fell on sufferer. (Fractured skull)

1890/3/354

Crane, Alfred

13 Feb 1889

Etheridge

Cumberland 266

Injured. Collision with empty truck. (Broken ribs)

1890/3/353

Crawford, Alex

26 Sep 1898

Mount Morgan C.D.

Mt. Morgan Mine

Injured. Fell from bucket. (Slight shock)

1899/3/421

Crawford, Alexander

6 Aug 1894

Crocodile (Rockhampton)

True Blue

Injured. Employed taking out the last bit from a stope when the ground fell in closing up the exit for a time. (Shock to system)

1895/3/573

Crawford, Lancelot

6 Dec 1893

Paradise

An old claim

Injured. Fell down shaft. (Shock)

1894/3/933

Creaney, James

25 Nov 1893

Gympie

Jones' Caledonia

Injured. Let go the windlass handle. (Scalp wound)

1894/3/933

Creed, Henry

12 Jul 1898

Charters Towers

Phoebe

Killed. Preparing fuse, it is supposed that he was closing the detonator on the fuse with his teeth.

1899/3/420

Crewe, Frederick C.

18 Nov 1890

Charters Towers

New Grace Darling

Injured. Accidental explosion of dynamite from boring in a hole from which a charge had just been fired. (Injury to eyes and wounds on head)

1891/4/342

Cribb, James

29 May 1900

Gympie

No. 1 North Victory

Injured. Truck not fastened in cage and was caught at top of chamber throwing some stone off. (Flesh wounds)

1901/4/465

Crien, M.

2 Nov 1882

Gympie

No. 1 North Phoenix

Injured. Fell from ladder. (Severe injuries to head)

1883/1/531

Crogan, Pat

24 Oct 1886

Gympie

Phoenix Golden Pile

Injured. Chain broke; let bucket fall down shaft. (Slight bruises)

1887/3/931

Crompton, James

30 Nov 1898

Etheridge

International No 5 West

Injured. Explosion of dynamite. (Wounds on back)

1899/3/421

Crooks, James

11 Jul 1896

Charters Towers

Mills United

Injured. Fell from a stage in the shaft. (Injury to knee joint)

1897/4/130

Crosbie, Alexander

28 Mar 1891

Ravenswood

Grass Hutt

Injured. Fell from truck in underlie. (Contusions only)

1892/4/316

Crossley, H.

10 Sep 1895

Gympie

1 N. Phoenix Mill

Injured. Fall of loose stone. (Slight scalp wound)

1896/4/148

Crow, James

21 Jan 1900

Charters Towers

Kelly's Queen Block

Injured. A log got away from top of underlie in which men were at work retimbering. Striking the debris it caused it to strike the men. (Fracture of left arm)

1901/4/463

Cruikshank, David

27 Jul 1888

Eidsvold

No. 1 South Policeman

Injured. Fall of earth. (Bruised)

1889/3/538

Cruikshank, James

6 Sep 1889

Glastonbury

United Glastonbury

Injured. Fall of rock. (Broken leg and other injury)

1890/3/354

Cuffe, Geo.

21 Apr 1900

Gympie

Columbia Consolidated

Injured. Water-bucket in its ascent dislodged small piece of centering which struck sufferer. (Blow on shoulder)

1901/4/464

Cullen, Bernard

4 Jul 1891

Charters Towers

Day Dawn P.C.

Injured. Stone falling down a pass. (Incised wound)

1892/4/317

Culpas, J.

13 Dec 1894

Charters Towers

No.1 West Victoria

Injured. Fall of rock. (Lacerated chest)

1895/3/575

Cunninghame, William

3 Mar 1892

Mary River

Torlooma Creek

Killed. Deadly gas was in the underlie shaft and a fire bucket was sent down to dispel it. The sufferer was affected by the gas and fell on the fire bucket burning himself, he died from the effects of the poison and the burns. (Gas poisoned and burnt)

1893/3/661

Curley, Dan

15 Oct 1898

Gympie

Great Eastern and Orient Tribute

Injured. Fall of rock. (Fracture of forearm bruised loins and scalp)

1899/3/421

Curnow, Richard

3 Nov 1887

Etheridge

Cumberland P.C.

Injured. Fall of rock from hanging wall. (Bruises)

1888/3/472

Curran, John

27 Feb 1895

Croydon

No. 7 Golden Gate

Killed. Fall of rock. Died following day in hospital. (Severely crushed; fatal)

1896/4/146

Currie, Jack

3 Oct 1894

Gympie

No. 2 Great Eastern

Injured. Fall of Mullock (Right shoulder cut)

1895/3/574

Currie, John

13 Jul 1896

Charters Towers

Queen Central

Injured. Sufferer was sinking in the shaft and had sent a bucket away which collided with the sides and partly tilted over throwing out some stones, one of which caught his knee. (Lacerated wound on knee)

1897/4/130

Curry, Thomas

1 Sep 1896

Charters Towers

Queen Central

Killed. Fell from the bucket when leaving the shots in the bottom of the shaft and confusing signals were afterwards given, but eventually went up hanging to the bottom of the bucket and fell. (Crushed fatally)

1897/4/130

Curtis, Dan.

24 Aug 1896

Gympie

No. 1 North Phoenix

Injured. Fall of rock whilst working off a shot in the footwall. The stulls above and the mullock came away with the loosened rock and caught the sufferers, one of whom was manager. (Bruised)

1897/4/130

Curtis, James

22 Aug 1891

Charters Towers

Mills United Freehold

Injured. Jammed between trucks. (Loss of top joint of finger)

1892/4/318

Curtis, James

6 Jan 1897

Gympie

Phoenix P.C.

Injured. Piece of steele flying from drill. (Eye injury)

1898/3/125

Cuthbertson, -

25 Feb 1897

Ipswich

Tivoli

Injured. Moving skips near shaft, caught against the wall. (Hand injured)

1898/3/125

Cuthbertson, Matthew

4 Feb 1893

Ipswich

Eclipse

Killed. During the heavy floods which prevailed in the early part of the year this man was drowned by the inundation of the mine, the roof having fallen in under the pressure of the flood water on the surface. (Drowned)

1894/3/931