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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Accident to Mr D. BUCHTMANN Detained at the Sydney Hospital

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 October 1892 · page 3

We regret to have to chronicle that on Tuesday last Mr D. Buchtmann, whilst on a short visit to Sydney, met with an unfortunate mishap which…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 1

An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue last Tuesday on the body of a recently born female infant that was found floating in the water…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1892 · page 1

An Adelaide telegram gives particulars of the murder of W.S Scott, of Willeroo station, by blacks, near Port Darwin. Scott left Willeroo…

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Sensation. Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 1

Last Tuesday night a strange accident happened at the Kogarah Railway Station, when a young girl named Lilian Beatrice Bond, aged 19 years,…

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Serious Buggy Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 3

Twa men named J. Killan and W. S[?]huster were driving in a buggy along the Glebe Point road this morning when the horse became frightened by a train,…

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Accident at the N.S.W. Rifle Meeting. a Rifleman Scores on his Foot

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 1

At the New South Wales Rifle Association matches on Tuesday last what is described as the first accident which has occurred at a rifle association meeting in this colony…

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Sensation. Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 October 1892 · page 1

The man Thomas Neill, believed to be an American medical practitioner, was put upon his trial at London on Friday lust for the murder of Matilda…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 October 1892 · page 1

George Edward Blackmore, late council clerk at Paddington, who is already under committal for trial, has been arrested on two further charges…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 1

The mysterious disappearance of the twin brothers, James and "William Wilson, from their residence, Canning-street Cariton (Victoria), has…

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The Nundah Accident Fund

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 November 1892 · page 2

At a meeting hold last, Tuesday night, the committee of the Benevolent Asylnm discuased the question as to whether, the contractors for the…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 1

The editor and publisher of Morning, a new London paper, has been heavily fined for publishing comments upon a society slander case when still…

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Railway Accident in England. Eight Killed; Eleven Injured. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 4

NEWS has just reached London to the effect that a terrible railway disaster has taken place in Yorkshire. The Scottish express, while travelling to London, came into…

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A Family Killed by a Paraffin Lamp Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 November 1892 · page 1

A terrible accident, involving the death of an entire family, occurred at a cottage recently in Grove-lane, Smethwick, near Birmingham. The…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 November 1892 · page 1

A man named James Murphy was drowned in the river at Maclean on Saturday night through a collision between his boat and a steamer…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1892 · page 1

Two thousand Socialists held a meeting at Ghent, Belgium, on Tuesday, in favor of universal suffrage. The proceedings culminated in a [?]ot…

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A Dozen Tourists Drowned

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1892 · page 2

Twelve tourists have been drowned while attempting to land at Jaffa, in Palestine, the boat being upset in the surf…

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Alarming Colliery Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1892 · page 1

On October 1st an alarming colliery accident was reported from Pontypridd. About 500 miners had descended the shaft, of Pensh Colliery to work, when the…

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Exciting Accident at Niagara

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1892 · page 1

One of the most exciting accidents that has ever been recorded in the anuals of the Falls took place on the 24th September. An excursion party from Toronto,…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 November 1892 · page 1

Shortly before 9 o'clock last Saturday morning an accident happened on the railway line near Eveleigh, which resulted in a junior clerk named W…

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Startling Railway Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1892 · page 7

One of the most extraordinary accidents ever known took place on Sept. 22, on the Barrow and Furness Railway, near Ulverston. An engine was swallowed up in a sort of artificial earthquake…

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