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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1873

11 stories in Illawarra's papers

Drowned in a Flood

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1873 · page 4

THE Herald's Mudgee correspondent records loss of life from the flooding of Cunninghamo Creek, on Friday, 12th instant :—At the time the torrent came…

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Railway Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1873 · page 3

A SINGULAR railway accident occurred at Kolvedon, a station on the Great Eastern Railway, the other day. The cause of the accident was owing to one of the metals in…

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Collision Between French and German Troops

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1873 · page 4

AN unpleasant collision, the result of discreditable blundering of some one in the versnilles War-offices, has occurred at Chaions, between the German troops in…

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Fatal Accidents at the Newcastle Col[?]ieries

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1873 · page 4

TUESDAY last says the Newcastle Chronicle, was a day [?]raught with accidents at two of our coal mines, both of which ended fatally. The first occurred…

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Fearful Collision

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 13 May 1873 · page 3

On the 1st March, the greatest excitement prevailed in Liverpool on the receipt of a despatch, to the direct that a three-masted screw steamer, with a blacd funnel with a white band, had…

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Fearful Collision

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 15 May 1873 · page 3

ON the 1st March the greatest excitement prevailed in Liverpool on the receipt of a dispatch to the effect that a three-masted screw steamer, with a black funnel with a…

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Fatal Accident to Dr. Sedgwick

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1873 · page 4

A magisterial inquiry was held at the Courthouse, Grenfell, on Monday, the 30th ultimo, before Mr R. M. Vaughan, J.P., touching the death of Mr. Henry Sedgwick, physician and…

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Collision with a Swordfish

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1873 · page 4

This morning we were invited to inspect in the Mazagon Dock the bottom of the David Aughterson. The ship has been stripped of her metal sheathing. On the port side, right on the…

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Collision with a Swordfish

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1873 · page 4

This morning we were invited to inspect in the Mazag[?]n Duck the bottom of the David Augh[?]rscu. The ship had been stripped of her metal sheathing. On…

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News by the Suez Mail. the Fatal Accident to the Son of the Princess Alice

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1873 · page 4

ON May 30 her Majesty received a telegram from Darmstadt, informing her of the death of Prince Frederick William of Hesse, the second son of the Prince Louis…

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Terrible Accident in America. Dixon, Ill., May 4

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1873 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred here this afternoon. The rite of baptism was being administered to a number of recent converts to one of the Baptist churches here,…

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