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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accidents in Harvest

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 August 1891 · page 7

Accidents in the harvest-field are, like too many other " accidents," entirely misnamed. " A Lincolnshire rector," painfully impressed with this fact, asks how long the workers in the harvest-field are to be…

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Fearful Burning Fatality at Hay

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 2

A shocking fatality is reported from Hay. It appears that a small three-roomed tenement in which a family named Brown resided caught fire…

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Fearful Railway Accident London

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 4

A Californian freight train consisting of twenty two cars and an engine, became derailed on a coastal bluff and was plunged into the Pacific Ocean…

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News by Wire. Twenty Persons Insane Owing to a Railway Accident. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 4

Twenty of the passengers who were injured in the late railway accident in Paris have become hopelessly insane…

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Dreadful Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 3

A dreadful accident occurred last week at Tallygaroopna, Victoria, to a young man named James Sandilant. Sandilant,…

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Railway Accidents

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 5

A dreadful accident occurred at Murrumburrah on Friday last by which two men met their deaths, and a third is in a critical condition. From…

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Serious Sulky Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 3

On Wednesday last as the Rev. J. Foley was driving in a sulkey to Camden Haven, accompanied by a little boy…

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The Easby-gambier Collision. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 September 1891 · page 4

The captain of the Easby attributes the collision to the helm of the Gambier being ported. He stated that if the Gambier had kept on her…

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Supposed Case of Drowning on the Upper Manning

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 September 1891 · page 4

On Sunday last Mr. G.S. Hill, who lives near the Bungay Crossing, on on the Upper Manning, heard a dog barking furiously on the river bank,…

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Accident to the S.S. Namoi. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 September 1891 · page 5

The steamer Namoi struck in the Hunter River yesterday, and is unable to proceed…

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Accident to Mr. S. Bond

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 September 1891 · page 4

Whilst riding out last evening with Mr. Moses our worthy Mayor met with a somewhat unpleasant accident. It would appear from what we have been…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 October 1891 · page 4

A pasenger train on Wednesday, running from Fassifern to Newcastle, left the rails; the engine and tender capsized, the fireman being killed…

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The Easby-gambier Collision. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 4

The Victorian Marine Board has found that the Easby-Gambier collision was due to the Easby not keeping to starboard, and to both…

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Accidents

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 13 October 1891 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson, of Dark water, narrowly escaped a serious accident last week. It appears that on returning home from a drive in the…

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Two Boys Drowned. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 October 1891 · page 4

Two boys were drowned yesterday in an artificial lagoon at Singleton…

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Accident to Mr. H. C. L. Anderson

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 October 1891 · page 4

Sydney papers report an accident to Mr. H. C. L. Anderson, the Director of Agriculture. It would appear that Mr. Anderson was driving out on…

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Accident to a Police Magistrate. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 October 1891 · page 4

A police magistrate named Robinson was injured in a coach accident near Grenfell, and his condition is regarded as serious…

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Remarkable Accidents

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

A SAULT Sainto Marie (Michigan) telegram says :—A large eagle attacked the babe of an Indian near this place on September 4. The mother saw the attack, and beat the…

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Collision Near the Richmond River. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 2

On Sunday night the steamer Eurimbla ran down a Lismore schooner off the Richmond River, nearly cutting her in two. The captain's wife,…

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Collision near the Richmond River

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 November 1891 · page 3

The steamer Eurimbla, while on a voyage from Sydney to Brisbane, and when about eight miles off the Richmond…

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