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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1867

20 stories in Illawarra's papers

Accident From Drowning

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1867 · page 2

ACCIDENT FROM DROWNING.—A boy, twelve years of age, named Alfred Swinnon, who had been residing with Mr. Myles, Burton-street, was drowned whilst…

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Fatal Boat Accident at Madras

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 February 1867 · page 3

Colonel Temple, the president of the Municipal Commission, Captain Hope, aide-de-camp to H. E. the Governor, and the two Misses M'Iver, daughters of M. John M'Iver, the secretary and manager of the…

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BOOLONG. Fatal Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 March 1867 · page 2

It is my Bad duty to have to record the death of a young man in the employ of David Berry, Esq., of Coolangatta. It appears the deceased, in company with others, were out in search of cattle, and that…

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Fatal Ice Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 March 1867 · page 4

The change, as by magic, from high spirits, healthy exercise, and hearty enjoyment, to disaster, and death, was too horrible, too crushing for the mind to take in at once. It was not till the…

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Great Flood in the Moraya District. Three Men Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 April 1867 · page 4

Sad and serious is the change in this district's prospects from this day week, and short, was the time for the accomplishment of the dreadful suits—three persons drowned—crops and fencing…

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Accidental Death

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1867 · page 2

On Wednesday last, T.M. Richards, Esq., Coroner for the district of Shoalhaven, and a jury of seven, held an inquest, at the house of Mrs Isaacs, Terrara, touching the death of Patrick Searson, who died in…

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Narrow Escape from drowning by Mr George Hewlett

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 May 1867 · page 2

Great excitement was occasioned at an early hour yesterday morning by a report that Mr George Hewlett the local manager of the E, S. &. A. Chartered Bank, had met with his death by drowning while…

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BOOLONG. Gun Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1867 · page 2

One of those unforseen accidents which too frequently occur through the careless use of firearms befell a young lad of some ten or eleven years old. It appears, from what I can glean, that a son of Mr…

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Select Poetry. Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 May 1867 · page 4

A rush of the rain-swollen river, A twirl of the treachorous tide— A girl, wish a sigh and a shiver, Peers over the dark water-side;…

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Poetry. Drowned

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1867 · page 4

A rush of the rain-swollen river, A twirl of the treacherous tide— A girl, with a sigh and a shiver Poers over the dark water-side:…

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Dest[?]oods. [?]Ss of Life and Great [?]Uction of Property. Richmond. a Mother and Ten Children Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 June 1867 · page 4

Through a young man, who rode over on horsehack from Richmond to Penrith, we learn that great havoc had been caused on Richmond Bottoms, the flat between Richmond town and…

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District News. Bulli. Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 July 1867 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon an accident of a painful nature happened to a man named Charles Elsey, employed on the jetty works. It appears that Elsey with two or three more men were in the act of…

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Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boasts at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Reeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago at Newcastle. Expected Floods to the South

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 August 1867 · page 2

Scarcely have the effects of late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On Sunday last, about…

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Restoring the Apparently Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 August 1867 · page 4

We have recently had several deaths from drowning in our district, and other cases which nearly proved fatal on several of those occasions, I was struck with the want of knowledge…

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Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 August 1867 · page 4

The leading principles of the following directions for restoration of the apparently dead from drowning are founded on those of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R…

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District News. Bulli. Fatal Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1867 · page 2

On Sunday, about 10 o'clock in the morning a sad accident by burning happened to a little boy belonging to a party named James Brown. It appears that Mr Brown, mother of the deceased, went for water…

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Shocking Accident at the Zig Zag

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1867 · page 4

A correspondent states that, a few days ago, a number of men were engaged in blasting the overhanging rocks on No. 5 Contract, on the Zigzag, Lithgow Valley…

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Terrible Accident in Nevada

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 10 October 1867 · page 2

Nevada, July 27.—R.H. Farquhar, Country Clerk and Union candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court, was killed this morning in the Court-house by an explo[?]ion of…

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Fatal Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 November 1867 · page 3

The Araluen correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch states that a frightful and fatal accident occurred at Upper Araluen, to a young man of the name of John…

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Fatal Boat Accident in Sydney Harbour. Five Persons Drowned

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1867 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE by telegram from the Heads was received yesterday morning that a bout was capsized on Sunday evening off South Reef, and that five persons were drowned…

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