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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1872

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

Fatal Mining Accident

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Wednesday 5 June 1872 · page 2

ON yesterday L. S. Donaldson, Esq,, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry (in the absence of the coroner) concerning the death of a miner named Thomas Field, then lying dead in the Hospital…

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Remarkable Crimes and Accidents

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 June 1872 · page 3

A MAN named John Kearus has been shot in the [?] Parkm Dublin. The [?]tiant was a [?]sugar who fired while K arne' back was [?]urued, and escaped. No cause for the outrage…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 2

ON Thursday T. A. Browne, Esp, P.M. and Coroner, held an inquiry - at Lowe’s paddock upon the body of Bryan Tonkin Richards who last unfortunately met his death on the previous…

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Fatal Accident — Inquest

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1872 · page 2

YESTERDAY (Friday) J. W. Lees, Esq., P.M., Corones, held an inquest on the boday of a miner named Edward Williams, who was killed by falling down the Caledonian shaft on Thursday…

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Drowning Op Ax Aeronaut

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 August 1872 · page 2

NASHVILLE, 29th MAy.—Professor Atkin, who was attached to the circus which exhibited at Decatur, Alabama, on Monday, ascended with a hot-air ballon during the afternoon, when the…

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Fatal Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 August 1872 · page 3

A FATAL, accident happened on the Yarra, at Richmond, on Sunday. A man whose name could bot be ascertained, with a young woman, took a boat from…

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Rail Board Accident in Canada. (From the New York [?] June 26th)

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 3

MR. Robert [?] Roddy, who was on the train during. who accident on the Grand Trunk Railway, makes the following statement of the horrible [?] :…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 September 1872 · page 5

WE are indebted to the editor of the Kyneion Guardian for the following particulars of the late fatal accident on the Melbourne and Mount Alexander line :—…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1872 · page 3

At thirteen minutes past 8 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd October a terrible accident happened on the Caledonian Railway, at Kirtlebridge Station, about seventeen miles north of…

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