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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

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Dreadful Colliery Accident

The Burrowa News · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred in the Shropshire coalfield on Sept. 11, by which 11 lives have been lost. At six in the morning the pit's company assembled on the bank to descend to work in…

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Ten Marines Drowned. (From the London papers.)

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 November 1875 · page 4

A FATAL accident, attended with the loss of ton lives, occurred at Plymouth on Thursday, September 9. A large boat laden with Royal Marines was returning from a…

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Loss of the S. S. PACIFIC. — Two Hundred Persons Drowned. (From the San Francisco Chronicle, November 9.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 6

THE American ship Messenger, Captain F. G. Gilkey, arrived nine days from San Francisco at Port Townsend, and reports picking up a part of the pilot-house twenty miles south of Cape Flattery,…

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