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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Terrible Train Accident. Five Passengers Killed. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 3

A SHOCKING train accident has occurred in Hazetin a borough of Pennyslvania, United States. An electric car by some means became…

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Sensation Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 1

Louisa Callagban, otherwise Madame Bernard, an advertising palmist and phronologist, has been committed for trial at Batburst on a charge of…

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Fatal Accident at Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 11

A fine young man named Henry Badoir, eighteen years of age, a Ron of the late Christian Badoir, of Mitchell's Flat, was billed at Singleton on Saturday night last by at fall from his horse…

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Fatal Boating Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 7

A boating accident involving the loss of four have occurred in Botany Bay on Thursday shortly before midnight. A party of six men from Waterloo went for an evening's fishing, and when…

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Sensation Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 1

By the collapse of a hotel which was in course of building at Nijni, Novgorod, Russia, 30 workman were buried. Thirteen of the number were…

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Gun Accident Near Tamworth. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 2

A TERTBLE gun accident occurred about 15 miles from Tamworth this morning. A young man, named Edward Alderton, was out shooting…

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Sensation Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 1

George Marshall, publican, of Coalville (Vic), deliberately swallowed a handful of strychnine enough to kill over a score of men, and then drank a…

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A Shocking Accident in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1895 · page 4

An accident occurred on Friday evening in No. 1 section at the Hobson's Buy main sewer, which is under about the centre of the River Yarra, and in Mr. A. J. Robb's contract at Spottiswoode. The…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 1

A serious accident happened, to the Cornish express in England on Monday. The train ran off the line while travelling round a curve at Backman,…

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Accident to Jockeys. One Fatal Result. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 2

WILLIAM POWER, a jockey, died in the Parramatta Hospital last night from concussion of the brain received through being thrown while riding…

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Fatal Gun Accident. Did not Know It was Loaded. [By Telegraph] Brisbane

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 2

A YOUTH named King, son of a railway stationmaster residing near Brisbane was cleaning his gnu and forgot it was loaded. He put tue muzzle into…

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Shocking Accident—Six Men Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 13

An accident occurred on Friday evening in No. 1 section at tho Hobson's Bay main sewer, which under about the centre of the River Tarra, and in Mr. A. J. Robb's contract at Spottiawoode. The…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 1

A shocking burning accident occurred at Durham (V.) on Thursday. A woman named Mary M'Kean. who was subject to fits.fell into a…

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Terrible Fatality at Parkcs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 13

A terrible fatality occurred at Parkes at 3 a.m. on Saturday last. A sevenroomed house just outside the town, occupied by the widow and tho family of the late J. C. Quinn, of McGee and…

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A Racing Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 2

A JOCKEY named James Moulden has met with a terrible accident on the Parkes racecourse. His horse bolted and he was thrown head fist against a…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 1

News has just been received of the extraordinary conduct of a crowd of spectators at a funeral at Canning Town, England. Recently a…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 1

John Coulten, the missing paymaster belonging to H.M.S. Mildura, who effected his escape from the vessel under sensational circumstances a…

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Sensation Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 May 1895 · page 1

Three miners named Sutherland, Cameron, and Crowarty were drowned by the capsizing of a boat between coal Island and Paysegur Point,…

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Sensation Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 May 1895 · page 1

Jabes Spencer Balfour, the abscond[?] direter of the Liberator group of [?] who was arrested in the Argentime afer protracted endeavors…

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A Strange Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1895 · page 3

A sad accident occurred at Alexandria last night, when two men named John Miller and Benjamin Bunyan lost their lives. Miller was engineer at Munroe's boiling down works, and Banyan was his…

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