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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Terrible Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 3 August 1891 · page 3

A railway guard named Guilfoyle slipped off a carriage on the York line of railway, Western Australia, and his head was completely severed from his body, which…

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Serious Blasting Accident. Near Tarana. a Man Badly Injured

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon a serious blasting accident occurred at the quarries between Locksley and Tarana. A middle-aged man in the employ of Messrs. Proudfoot…

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Sad End to a Fatality. Sydney, Thursday night

National Advocate · Friday 7 August 1891 · page 3

A sad case of drowning occurred at Moruya to-day. A little child of Mr. John Donovan's, while playing about the house was suddenly missed, and…

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Railway Collision

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 3

A serious railway accident is reported from Canada. Two passenger trains came into collision on the West Shore railway line, near Port Byron, and II persons…

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Terrible Murricanes. 140.000 Natives Drowned

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 3

From Zanzibar it is reported that 146,000 natives were drowned during the hurricane in April on Lake Victoria Nvanza…

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Terrible Railway Accident. London, August 5

National Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 4

A train, conveying Sunday school children, collided with another train at Lake Champlain, in Canada. 4 passengers were killed and 20 injured…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Crushed by a Fall of Stone

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 3

Last evening a miner named Joseph Rushton was brought into, the hospital from Sunny Corner, suffering terrible injuries caused by a fall of rock while…

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Another Fatal Collision

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 10 August 1891 · page 3

Two men have been killed and a number injured through a collision on the Pittsburg-Chicago railway line…

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Still Another Collision

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 10 August 1891 · page 3

At a railway collision at Darmstadt, Russian Finland, two persons were killed and 48 injured. Atmospheric disturbances prevented the railway officials from…

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Frightful Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 3

A shunter named Cummings fell between the carriages on the railway station at Maryborough and was killed. He head was completely severed from his body…

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Fatal Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 13 August 1891 · page 3

Two miners named Thompson and Aitken were killed, and one named Rice injured by the fall of a rock in the East Consol Mine, Broken Hill…

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Three Men Injured. Sydney, Thursday night

National Advocate · Friday 14 August 1891 · page 3

Three men were seriously injured by falling from buildings in the course of erection at Redfern…

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Found Drowned. Sydney, Friday night

National Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1891 · page 3

A body of a man, supposed to be that of the fireman missing from the steamer Gulf of Genoa, was found floating in the harbor this morning…

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Terrible Accident. London, August 13

National Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1891 · page 3

During a squall in New York Harbor the deck of a pleasure barge collapsed, causing the death of 14 persons aboard and the injury of 30 more…

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Drowning Cases

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 17 August 1891 · page 3

Three young man—Frank Hudson and the two sons of Captain Hopkins, have been drowned at Opotiki, New Zealand, through the capsizing of a boat…

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Collision in Switzerland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 3

Two passenger trains collided in Switzerland. Twelve persons were killed and many injured…

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Found Drowned. Sydney, Monday night

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 3

A body of a man, unknown, was found floating in the harbor this morning…

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Accident

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 2

Yesterday as a lad was driving a cart loaded with lucerne down Piper-street he dropped the reins, and leaning forward for them missed his balance with the result that…

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Another Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 3

A railway collision has occured in South" Wales, in which fifteen persons were injured, some of them fatally…

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A Terrible Railway Collision. London, August 17

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 3

The railway collision at Berne, in Switzerland, caused the death of 48 persons…

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