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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1849

4 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Dreadful Accident.—four Lives Lost

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 3

A FEARFUL accident occurred about mid-day, on Friday, at the Pennant Hills Quarry, by which four persons lost their lives, and a fifth was so seriously injured that serious apprehensions are entertained…

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Dreadful accident on the Caledonian Railway

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1849 · page 1

A dreadful accident occurred on the Caledonian Railway on Saturday night last by which five lives have been lost. The mail train left Carlisle for the north at 9. 16 p.m., and proceeded without…

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Dreadful Accident at Glasgow

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1849 · page 4

On Saturday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, one of the most fearful catastrophes that ever occurred in Scotland took place in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop-street, Glasgow. Shortly after…

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Original Poetry. Lines Addressed to —, and Left Where They Could Only Be Discovered by Accident

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 20 October 1849 · page 6

SHOULD thine eye, by chance directed. Rest upon this scrawl of mine, Mark the anguish unaffected, Which pervades each burning line…

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