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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Railway Accident in England. Excursion Trains Collide. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 August 1892 · page 2

A RAILWAY accident occurred yesterday at Epping, on the Great Eastern line, owing to a collision between two engines drawing exeursion trains…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 1

A Melbourne telegram states that tho trial of George Prato and Ann O'Brion, for the murder of a farmer, named Sampson Cornwall, near…

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Another Baloon Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 5

Three French aeronauts, MM. Besancon, Porlie, and De Meyer ascended from Havre on July 11; at ten o'clock signals of distress were noticed six or seven miles out at sea,…

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Fatal Bicycle Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 3

On July 13th Dr. George Danford Thomas held an inquest at the West London Hospital concerning the death of Alfred Ryde, aged 29 years. who…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 August 1892 · page 1

At Hobart on Friday last a jockey named William Cantwell was found in the Inveresx Park gagged, strapped and tied. He asserts that three men…

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News by Cable. London, Monday. Railway Collision

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 August 1892 · page 2

Two express trains, one of them being the Ostend express, collided at Brussels, in Belgium. Two persons were killed and 30 injured…

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A Horrible Fatality. Crushed to Death. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 August 1892 · page 3

A SHOCKING accident occurred at Circular Quay to-day. A boiler was being hoisted from the hold of the vessel Gulf of Taranto to the Balmain…

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Wreck on the Victorian Coast. The Loss of the Newfield. Nine of the Crow Drowned

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 August 1892 · page 3

Monday last we received a special from our Sydney correspondent, [?]uncing that the barque Newfield, [?] from Sharpness to Brisbano,…

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Death by Drowning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1892 · page 3

"To prevent any person from interfering with my design I jumped into the river late one afternoon. No one appeared to be about at the time. When I struck the water I immediately sank,…

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It Was an Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 September 1892 · page 4

"I UNDERSTAND," remarked the polite reporter to the close-mouthed manager of a western railroad noted for its poor time, "that there was an accident on your road…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 September 1892 · page 1

A telegram from Albury gives particulars of a remarkable case of alleged poisoning, at Darlinghurst point and the circumstances have led…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 September 1892 · page 1

An attempt was made on Tuesday night to break into the branch of the Loudon Chartered Bank, at the corner of Swanston and Little Bourke…

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Two Children Drowned. Sad Occurrence at Long Point

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 September 1892 · page 2

YESTERDAY the police received information of a melancholy occurrence by which two children were drowned in the river at Long Point, about six…

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The Fatal Accident at Thornley Colliery

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1892 · page 8

Yesterday afternoon, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, theinquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Patrick Cronin, miner, who met with an accident in the Thornley Colliery on Friday and…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 September 1892 · page 1

At Melbourne last Friday, Henry Bennett, Alex. Williams, and John Quinn, who were convicted of stealing two safes containing £842 from the…

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The Long Point Fatality. Searching for the Bodies

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 September 1892 · page 2

RELATIVE to the fatality by which two children were drowned at Long Point on Friday last, as reported in our last issue, we are informed that since the very…

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Gun Accident at Townhead

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 September 1892 · page 4

An accident of a very serious nature occurred last Saturday afternoon at Mr Fell's house, Townhead. It appears that the employes one the…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 1

Last Wednesday, about 3.35 p.m., the dead body of an old man named Jephson was found lying behind a tree near the Greta Public Park. The…

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The Drowning Fatality at Long Point. Recovery of one of the Bodies

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 September 1892 · page 4

ON Monday morning Mr W. Walker (coroner) held an inquest at the residence of Mr Joseph Yates, Long Pong, on the body of a little child…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 September 1892 · page 1

On Friday last No. 3 Jury Court in Sydney was thronged during the greater portion of the day, when the hearing of the action Tewkesbury v…

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