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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

124 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 7

The Accident to the Eurimbla

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1886 · page 4

The A.S.N. Company's steamer Eurimbla, bound from Gladstone to Sydney for repairs, arrived in Brisbane yesterday (says the Brisbane Courier of Saturday evening) after a…

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The Collision between the Birksgate and Barrabool

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 3

Judgments of the Full Court have been delivered (reports the Echo) on the cross appeals in the cases the A. S. N. Company v. Howard Smith and Company and Howard Smith and Company v. the…

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Railway Accident at Farley

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 4

In addition to the inconvonience and annoyance inseparable from travelling in railway trains owing to the frequent stoppages at stations and platforms along the lines, the lives and limbs of passengers…

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Fatal Accident. Spring Gart Capsized. Boy- Killed. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 September 1886 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon, Mrs stone, residing, in Buninyong, was returning from Dubbo with her two sons, aged twelve and three, when the spring cart…

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A Shocking Railway Accident in Victoria. (Argus, Sept. 13.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 4

A terrible railway accident happened at the Union-street level crossing, on the Coburg and Brunswick railway, on Saturday evening, resulting in the death of John Hocking, who resided in…

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An Appalling Yacht Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 8

" The most terrible accident on record to a yacht in American waters," says a correspondent of the London Standard, "occurred on Friday, July 30, off Sandyhook. The yacht Sarah Craig, of 25 tons,…

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Singular Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 8

Poor Mary Walsh went out from her humble home, No. 234, West Thirty-fifth-strect, on Friday afternoon, to deliver some clothes she had been washing. The direction she pursued took her…

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Dreadful Railway Accident. a Man Cut to Pieces

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 2

ASHOCKING accident, resulting in the instant death of a man, occurred near Canley Vale railway platform on Wednesday night between 9 and 10 o'clock. The name of the…

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A Millionaire Drowned

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1886 · page 8

The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Umbria left the Mersey on the 17th ult., and when within three days' steaming of New York a sad circumstance occurred—namely, the drowning of General James…

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Accident to Cardinal Manning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1886 · page 8

On Aug. 10 Cardinal Manning consecrated the Right Rev. Anthony Gaughran, O.M.I., as Bishop of Priene and Vicar Apostolic of the Orange Free State, in the Church of the English Martyrs,…

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A Shocking Railway Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1886 · page 7

A railway accident of a dreadful nature happened at the Ascotvale station on the Essendon line about 12 o'clock on Monday night, reports the Argus of Sept. 29. The victim was Mrs. Maxwell, who had…

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Sad Case off Drowning at Echuca

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1886 · page 3

A telegram from Echuca in the Melbourne Argus of Friday says:—A sad accident occurred last night, resulting in the death of a young lady named Josephine Lenne, aged about 21 years, and daughter of…

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Terrible Accident in Sheffield

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1886 · page 7

By the falling of a wall in Meadow-street, Sheffield, on Aug. 25, seven children-were killed and two others injured. The wall formed part of the boundary of the works of Messrs. Daniel Doncaster…

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A Year's Railway Accidents

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1886 · page 7

By a report of the Board of Trade upon the accidents which have occurred on railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1885, it appears that the total number of persons returned to the…

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Fatal Accident. Fall Down an Embankment. (By Telegraph,) Wallsend

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 October 1886 · page 2

MR SPENCER, Inspector of the Permanent Ways, while walking along the Railway line near Freshwater Creek, near Wallsend, yesterday, was startled…

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Remarkable Escape from Drowning. (Tamworth Observer.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 14

A miraculous escape from a watery grave occurred last Sunday at Menedebri, Somerton. The circumstances of the case are as follows:—It appears that Miss Annie Borthwick, a young lady belonging…

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Accident on the Northern Line

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 2

WHILST one of the special trains was returning from the Tenterfield opening to Newcastle on Wednesday night, an accident, which, might have been attended…

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Railway Accident. Miraculous Escape Another Sharp, Curve. Brisbane

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 October 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a special train, conveying a number of Brisbane volunteers, consisting of two companies of the Scottish Rifles and the head-quarters…

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Accident to the Jerry's Plains Mail Coach

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 October 1886 · page 2

THE mail coach to Jerry's Plains came to grief on Thursday morning last. It appears that the young fellow who had charge of the conveyance had occasion…

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Walgett. Melancholy Death by Drowning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 6

On Tuesday, 26th instant, Henry George Kenrick, Esq., the District Coroner, held an inquest at Thompson's Two Mile Warrambool Hotel, touching the death of James Fieldhouse, whose body was…

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