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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1874

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

Another Fatal Accident in Byers and Holtermann’s Mine

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 14 July 1874 · page 2

At about one o’clock p.m. on Thursday the [?] intelligence was received in town than another miner had been killed in [?] and Hotelmann's mine. In this…

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Drowning of Commander Gowlland, R.n., and One O F His Boat’s Crew

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 18 August 1874 · page 3

IT is again our painful duty to record another of those sad and fatal occurrences which but too frequently take place in the harbour. It has often happened that accidents on the…

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Frightful Accident on the Great Northern Line. a Man Nearly Cut in Halves

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 22 August 1874 · page 4

ANOTHER of those dreadful accidents which, we regret to say, are becoming common on the Great Northern Line in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, occurred shortly…

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Shocking Mining Accident at Ballarat. Two Lives Lost

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 1 September 1874 · page 4

A MELANCHOLY an fatal accident occurred at the No. 1 shaft of the Prince of Wales Company, Cobblers, on Monday evening. It appears the two men were engaged in…

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Happy Accidents

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 4

WHEN little Miss Hewett fell into the Thames from the window of her father’s house on London Bridge, the accident was a happy one for the plucky apprentice who…

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Sad Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the morning of the 8th inst., on the road between the Limekilns and Franklinford, near Castlemaine, by which a fine boy, aged 11 years,…

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Disastrous Railway Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 22 October 1874 · page 3

One of the most destructive railway accidents ever known in South Wales happened on the August 14,at Burgood station ,on the Rhymney Railway. A mineral train of…

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Dreadful Railway Accident Upwards of Mighty Persons Killed and Injured

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 2

THE entire chapter of railway accidents to which additions have of late years been frightfully numerous, has no parallel to this Great Eastern Railway collision near…

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Fatal Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 15 December 1874 · page 2

THE Homer [?] Rsq., held an inquest at the Belmore Hotel, yesterday, on view of the body of Robert Robins. a [?] then and their dying dead…

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