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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

19 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Sad Death by Drowning

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1880 · page 3

GREAT regret was expressed in Sydney when it became known that Miss Brown, daughter of Mr. S. C. Brown, M.L.A., of Newtown, had…

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Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 February 1880 · page 3

ON Friday afternoon, Mr. J. R. Hannaford, stonemason, was proceeding home in a dray; when a few miles out of Cooma he was getting…

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Fatal Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 3

A YOUNG MAN Known as Sam was riding from Jindabyne to Lee[?]ville on Saturday or Sunday last and during the journey his horse…

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Appalling Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1880 · page 4

THE most awful railway accident which over occurred in Scotland took place near Dundee on the night of the Monday after Christmas, when a portion of the famous…

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Accidents at Rock Flat

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 3

ABOUT a fortnight ago, a daughter of Mr. J. Smith, of Rock Flat, had the misfortune to break her leg. The fractured limb was reduced…

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Australian Accident Assurance Association

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1880 · page 3

EXTRACTS FROM CLAIM [?]TER. A STOCK and Station agent at Brisbane was riding on [?]ick, a short distance from town, and for…

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Fatal Accident on Randwick Racecourse

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 3

THE City Coroner held an inquest on Wednesday morning at his offices in Hyde Park, Sydney, on the body of James Clarke. Deceased was about 18 years of age and a…

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Terrible Coach Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 3

THERE was a great commotion in Cooma on Saturday evening, when it became generally known that a disastrous accident had happened to…

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A Captain's Daughter Drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1880 · page 3

A MOST [?] occurrence happened, yesterday afternoon, in the drowning of a time young woman, only 16 years of age, at the "Rocks," below the baths. Her name…

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Serious Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1880 · page 3

L[?] night, about 7 o'clock, Mr. Brain Mu[?] of [?] must with an accident of a serious nature. He was riding [?] the Royal Bridge, Cooma,…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1880 · page 4

THE community of Gulgong have just less shocked by one of these terribly [?] accidents from the dangers of which unfortunately, all those who engage in…

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Railway Accident in Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 4

FROM the Mary borough Advertise we obtain particulars concerning the shocking accident at the Talbot railway station on Saturday night, when the…

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Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1880 · page 3

Last Wednesday week, whilst Mr. J. Sohofield was returning home from a Umaraila night bour at night his mare collided against a were fence, pitching Mr. Schofield clear…

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Serious Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1880 · page 2

AS Mr. A.A. McKeahnie, J.P., of Rosedale, Adaminaby, was riding across the plain from one of his stations to his homestead on Tuesday he met with an accident…

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Terrible Fire Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1880 · page 3

MONDAY week's Evening News [?]:— Yesterday, about half-past 12 o'clock a terrible accident by fire happened to a woman named Annie M'Phail,…

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Appalling Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1880 · page 4

An appalling calamity happened on the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which sixteen persons were killed and forty other badly…

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Mail Coach Accidents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1880 · page 4

IT has frequently happened that serious accident have occurred in the interior of the colony through the bolting of the horses attached 10 mail coaches while the…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident befell the express train from Leeds to Morecainbe yesterday afternoon. The train is tuned to leave Leeds at 12.15, and to…

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Shocking Balloon Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 3

PERHAPS the most shocking balloon accident over recorded (says the European Mail) was that which happened at [?] near Paris,…

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