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Accidents, 1892

12 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Accident

Katoomba Times · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 2

LAST Tuesday night a man named Mainbridge met with a very serious accident at the Mines, Katoomba South, where he was employed as a sbale miner. He was tipping a skip over, when somehow…

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The Easby in Collision Again

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 March 1892 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- The steam collier Easby, which some time since ran down the steamer Gambier, was a party to another collision in the Yarra on Saturday morning just…

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The Injured

Katoomba Times · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

W. H. Symonds, Sydney; Henry Gilmore, Condoblin; John Richan[?]s, Milthorne; John O'Shea, William Thomas, Bathurst; W. Wybunl, who had charge of the mail van : Thomas Wilbow,…

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Arrival of the Dead and Injured at Bathurst

Katoomba Times · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

About 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning simultaneously with the arrival of the day train from the west, a train arrived from the scene of the accident, in which were the passengers. Nine dead, 14 injured…

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Appalling Railway Disaster. Nine People Killed. Several Injured. Western Mail Train Wrecked

Katoomba Times · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

LAST Tuesday night the through mail train to Bourke passed safely over the Blue Mountains, containing many passengers for whom many friends were [?]ssiously waiting to welcome at stations…

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Railway Accident at Lawson

Katoomba Times · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 2

AN accident happened to a goods train down from Penrith to Bathurst at about 20 minutes past 10 on Saturday night, near Lawson, through the breaking of the axle of the trailing wheels of the front bogie…

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Railway Accident at Glenbrook

Katoomba Times · Friday 27 May 1892 · page 2

AN accident happen at Glenbrook on Thursday afternoon, May 19. A gang of men were engaged running tracks along a decline into the deviation tunnel, when the brake refused to act. The result…

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Serious Railway Accident

Katoomba Times · Friday 30 September 1892 · page 4

AN accident occurred to the northern mail train on Saturday night near Carlingford which narrowly escaped proving a fatal disaster. The mishap took place at about 11 o'clock at a…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Katoomba Times · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 2

A TEBRIBLE discovery was made at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night by Daniel Thickey, a painter at the Kogarah railway station, the body of a young woman being found lying fearfully mangled close…

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Sad Fatality

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 2

A SAD ending of Prince of Wales' birthday was the accident at Katoomba, by which William Tyrrell, otherwise known as "Dummy," met his death. Tyrrell and his employer, Mr. J. Bettles, for…

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An Injured Innocent

Katoomba Times · Friday 2 December 1892 · page 2

THE case of John Hurley, ex-M.P., accused and acquitted of conspiracy in connection with the Australian Banking Company, may be that of any other N.S.W. citizen charged with a criminal…

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Railway Accident near springwood

Katoomba Times · Friday 2 December 1892 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident, fortunately unattended by loss of life, happened near Springwood on Wednesday night to a cattle train, which was on its way to Sydney. The train was proceeding on a down…

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