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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

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

Mining Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 4

last Saturday morning a serious accident occurred at the Lothair Company’s shaft Ballarat to a miner named Matthew Lollas had just come on the morning…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 16 February 1875 · page 3

It is an painful duty to chronicle one of the [?] Railway Master which has [?] in this country. On December, [?] express train found for…

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Fatal Railway Accident. (Hobart Town Mercury.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 April 1875 · page 2

Another fatal accident occurred on the main Line Railway, resulting in the death of Mr. Daniel Booker, inspector of the permanent way, and the slight injury of the…

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An Alarming Accident

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 6 May 1875 · page 2

An alarming accident happened at the Jerusalem Chamber, Cowper’s-court, on March 2 ,just between 2 and 3 o’clock, when most of the leading merchants of the city…

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Fatal Accident at Ponto

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 27 May 1875 · page 3

A distressing and fatal accident occurred on Wednesday last, the 12th instant, to a young man named Henry Staunton, in the employ of Mr. Stace, of Ponto Hill, The…

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Shocking Accident to a Young Lady

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 3 June 1875 · page 3

A shocking accident occurred in Paris on March 17, which has [?] the Rochchild and other [?] Jewish families into deep mourning…

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Dreadful and Fatal Accident to the Rev. James Pillars

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 5 August 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon Sydney was started by a report that the He v. James Pillar n Unitarian minister, of this city, had fallen off the rocks at South Head, and was killed…

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Fatal Accident at the Herald Office

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquest on. Wednesday morning, on the body of Mr. Thomas Doyle, foreman of the machine department of the HERALD office, who had met his death,…

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Dreadful Mining Accident Through Explosion. (From the Western Enemies.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 13 October 1875 · page 2

A MINING accident occurred yesterday afternoon in the winze of the Golden Point mine, at Luckuow, the particulors of which are simply horrible to relate. The victim of the…

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Arrival the English Mail Via Suez. Terrible Accident to an Excursion Train

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 4

ON August 28 a terrible collision occurred on the Midland Railway, at Kildwick Station, 16 miles north of Bradford, between the fast train from Scotland and as…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via San Francisco. Loss of the S. S. Pacific.—two Hundred Persons Drowned. (From the Sun Francisco Chronicle.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 15 December 1875 · page 2

THE American ship Messenger, reports picking up a part of the pilot-house, and Henry Jelley, the only survivor of the steamship Pacific, which sailed from Victoria, and…

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