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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

12 stories in Illawarra's papers

MISCELLANEOUS. The Recent Railway Accident in Scotland

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1880 · page 4

THE Goulburn Herald remarks as follows in reference to the late railway accident in Scotland: — "Many years ago the directors of the North British Railway Company…

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Accidental Death at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 February 1880 · page 2

It is with feelings of deep regret that I record the sudden and sad and of Mr. Matthew Matthewson, of this place, which took place on Saturday night last. On the evening stated, deceased, who…

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The Late Fatal Accident at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1880 · page 2

An inquest touching the death of Henry Whitoth, at the Bulli Colliery, on Tuesday last, was instituted on the following day by the Coroner for the district (Mr. E. F. Smith), Messrs. C…

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Terrible Colliery Accident in Staffordshire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 March 1880 · page 4

On Jnuuany 21st, shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning, an appealing colliery explosion occurred at the Fair Lady pit of the Crewe Coal and Iron Company, at Leyeett,…

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Extraordinary Brain Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1880 · page 4

In a late, article on Popular Science, the eminent Mr. Proctor says:— The boy John M'Evoy, whose remarkable case I partly described in my last…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1880 · page 4

On Thursday morning, 8th instant, William M'Arthur, son of Mr. John M'Arthur, of the Greenhills Iron Stores, met with an accident of such a…

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Fatal Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1880 · page 2

IT is our nod duty to chronicle one of the most melancholy accidents that over happened in the district. By it Dr. William Tarrant, a gentleman who had by…

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Appalling Railway Accident in California

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1880 · page 2

AN appalling calamity happened on the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which 16 persons were killed and forty others badly wounded…

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A Terrible Collision and Loss of 50 Lives

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1880 · page 4

On the night of June 11, the steamboats Stonington and Narragansett came in collision of Long Island Sound, near the Connecticut River, and the Narragansett took…

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Coach Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1880 · page 2

A coach accident, occasioning serious results, occured on the Bulli Mountain on Friday afternoon last. Mr. Waterworth's coach from Camphelltown on that day had on hand, in…

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Melancholy Death by Drowning

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 November 1880 · page 2

A correspondent, writing from Bulli yesterday, says:—Our usually quiet township was thrown into a state of excitement and sympathy early on Saturday morning last, by a report that Mr. J. J…

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Shellharbour. Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 10 December 1880 · page 2

PILOT Hay, Shellharbour, accompanied by Captain Baxter, while out fishing about a mile and a-half of the harbour in a small boat on Monday last, had a narrow escape…

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