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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

25 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 2

The Fatal Alpine Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 4

The examination of the marks on the body of the Marquis Pallavicini and of the spot where it was discovered in the Austrian Alps places it beyond a doubt…

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Boat Accident at Dunbar—nine Lives Lost

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 4

A boat disaster, by which nine persons lost their lives, occurred at Dunbar. The boat, had only a short voyage to make across the bay—a distance of…

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Heroic Rescue from Drowning

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1886 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening last us two children of Captain Wilson's of Shellharbour, were playing on a neighbour's well, one of them, a little girl not quite four years old, fell in…

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Peculiar Case of Drowning

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 2

THE S. M. Herald reports a peculiar ease of drowning brought to light on Friday afternoon At about 400 p.m a man named John M'Donald saw what appeared…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Sydney, Thursday, 12.14 p.m. Fatal Collision Between the Keilawarra & Helen Nicol

Kiama Reporter · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 3

News has come to hand of a collision last night between the steamers Helen Nicol from Grafton, and the Keilawarra bound to Brisbane, in the vicinity of South Solitary…

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