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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1870

7 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Coach Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 8

THE Tamworth Examiner reports that early on Thursday morning last an accident occurred to the mail from Armidale, the result of which was some; what serious. It Appears that the coach, driven by…

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Dreadful Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 6

DR. [?] DUCKLE coroner, held an inquest on Wednesday at the Quarry Paddock Farm, on the body of John Norris, who was killed the preceding day by being drawn into a…

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Fatal Accident at Milton

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 7

A shocking accident occurred at Milton on Wednesday last (says the Shoalhaven News), resulting in the death of a young man, named Charles Windley, a sawyer. The decessed had been…

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Dreadful Paraffin Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 6

A DREADFUL paraffin accident occurred at a place called Rughanishmore, near Cleggan, Connemara. About twenty person assembled at the house of a man named Heffernan for…

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Melancholy Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 4

QUITE a painful sensation was erected in Cooma on Thursday afternoon by the intelligence that one of Mr. J. J. Mawson's children had been drowned in a well attached to his premises. The child was…

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Death by Drowning

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 8

A CASE of death by drowning occurred in Queanbeyan on Monday evening, May 28, just after dark. The deceased was an elderly woman, named Ann Searles, wife of a laboring roan named John Searles…

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Little Factory Girl That Really Was Thirteen. an Accident of Yorkshire Life

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 4

"HALLO, little woman!—don't be in such a hurry; you are not thirteen, think?" "Yes, I am, sir," she replied dropping…

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