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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1882

15 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Sad Case of Drowning

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 January 1882 · page 3

A YOUNG man named Thompson, aged 17 years, almost the sole support of his widowed mother, was drowned in Jellamatong Lake, near Mr. John…

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Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 3

A MAN named Minneghan, whilst riding hurriedly to catch a funeral procession that was proceeding from Cooma to Bombala on Tuesday…

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Bab's Fire-crackers. an Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 March 1882 · page 1

"Hero comes a country-woman cane," said Fairweather, of New York, to Count Oscar Von Held. as the two young men were strolling along the Unter den London…

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Fatal Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1882 · page 3

AN inquest was held at the Obsdrver Tavern, Sydney, at noon on Tuesday, concerning the death of a lad named Alexander Hilkiah Robsen, 14 years…

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Serious Football Accident.—

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1882 · page 2

The Parramatta Evening Times reports that last Saturday a match was played between the second team of the Carlton local club and a team of…

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Accidents on the Tramway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1882 · page 3

LAST evening another accident happened on the waterloo line. One of the passengers by the Waterloo train, a young man named Richard Landy,…

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Fatal Accident by Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1882 · page 3

AT Dunedin, New Zealand, on the 1st instant, a live brake out [?] Captain Kitchenor, when all the inmates of the house were asleep. So…

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More Tram Accidents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 3

TRAMWAY accidents are now becoming of such common a currency that, u[?] they are attended with less of life, they fail to [?] more than a passing comment. That the blundering system of [?], to which we have an often drawn attention,…

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Drowned from a Steamer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1882 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—On the arrival of the steamer Morpeth, from Sydney, this morning, information was given to the police of a [?] case of draw[?]g which had occurred…

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Another Tram Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1882 · page 3

AFTER a rest of three or four[?] without an accident, the Sydney trainway [?]has again [?] its right to be considered one of the most scientific engine of…

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Fatal Boat Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1882 · page 4

M[?]NY, Monday. An accident, which unfortunately resulted in the death of two of the occupants of a boat, and the narrow [?] of three others, occurred on the river Yarru, in…

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Coach Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 8 November 1882 · page 3

As the outgoing Sydney mail was leaving Cooma for Goulburn on Monday night, it met with a serious mishap that was happily unaccompanied with loss of life. After…

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Railway Collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 November 1882 · page 3

BATHURST, Saturday.—At half-past 3 o' clock this morning a serious collision, and one purely attributable to grown neglect on the part of some of the railway officials, took…

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Railway Collision. Latest Particulars

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 4

ONE of the passengers who travelled from Sydney in the train which collided at Bathurst on Saturday gives the following graphic and pathetic account of the accident, After…

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Railway Collision

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1882 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.— A terrible and disastrous railway accident occurred at about 6.30 p.m. on Saturday on the Hawthorn line, near a small…

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