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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1890

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More Boating Accidents

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 3

Four deaths from boating accidents on Sunday, have been reported from Perth (W.A.)…

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Fatal Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

A girl named Roberts, daughter of a milk vendor, was killed at Parramatta yesterday through the boiling of a horse she was driving…

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More Drowning Cases

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 2

Five more drowning cases were reported yesterday…

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The Other Colonies. a Young Girl Drowned

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 2

On Monday evening (the Melbourne Telegraph reports) Miss Charlotte Nelson, daughter of a Custom-house officer, was drowned at the Kerford-road jetty, Albert…

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By Telegraph. Fatal Accident at Grenfell. Sydney, Thursday, 6. 5 p.m

National Advocate · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 3

A buy, aged 11 years, the son of a farmer named Brown, was killed last night at Grenfell through a horse bolting with a trolly. The vehicle passed over his body, crushing it in a…

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Waggon Accident at Raglan

National Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 2

At eight o'clock yesterday morning, a very painful accident happened to a man, well known by the only name of "Jack," at Mr. George Matthew's farm Raglan. It seems…

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Terrible Mining Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

A terrible accident occurred at Lazarus Company's mine, Sandhurst, through a charge hanging fire. James Hoyle was killed and several other men were seriously…

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Another Boy Drowned

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 2

The body of a boy named Fitzgerald, who had been missing from his home since Tuesday, was found floating in the New-castle Harbour to-day…

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Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 2

A railway accident occurred at Sydney Settlement, Nebraski Territory, when the train caught fire and the whole of the Australian mails on transit were burned…

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By Telegraph. Shocking Burning Accident Sydney, Wednesday night

National Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 3

It is reported from Port Lincoln. Adelaide, that two little children, named King, aged two and three years respectively, were burned to death yesterday, under peculiarly painful…

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Frightful Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 3

A farmer named Keeham at Lancefield (Vic), was caught in a threshing machine yesterday, and his leg was torn completely off…

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City and Suburban. Serious Accident

National Advocate · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 3

A very sad accident, attended with serious results, occurred in Bathurst on Saturday morning. The wife of Mr. Thomas Bayley, farmer of George's Plains, was driving along…

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By Cable. Electric Wire Accident. London

National Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 3

A terrible example of the danger nf electric wires is reported from New York. It appears that a runaway horse attached to a vehicle made along a street of Newburgh, and was…

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Nasty Accident with a Thrasher

National Advocate · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 3

George Smith, of H[?]mewood, near Yass, while working at a trashing machine this morning, after oiling the cog-wheels, went to turn the machine round, when by some means…

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Fatal Accident on the Road. Mr. John Thompson Killed

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 2

News was brought into town early this morning that Mr. John F. Thompson, son of Mr. J. Thompson, Court House keeper, had been found dead on the…

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Drowned

National Advocate · Monday 27 January 1890 · page 3

A lad named Carr was drowned at Pit's Feradale Colliery last night…

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Fatal Accident. Mr. J. F. Thompson Killed

National Advocate · Monday 27 January 1890 · page 3

Early on Saturday morning it was reported in Bathurst that Mr. John Fletcher Thompson, son of our respected Court-house-keeper, Mr. J. Thompson, had met a terrible death on the…

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The Fatal Accident on the Peel Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 27 January 1890 · page 2

The following is the evidence taken at the inquest held by Mr. W. A. Steele, coroner, at Mr. O'Donnell's residence, Jack White's Flat, near Peel, on Saturday,…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 3

A labourer, named William Fleming, while crossing the railway line at Eveleigh , this morning, was knocked down by the train. The body was fearfully mangled…

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Saved From Drowning by a Prisoner

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 3

Matthew Langtree, a prisoner under remand at Rockhampton, saved the lives of two persons from drowning; one of them was the constable by whom he was…

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