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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1885

19 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Fatal Yachting Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1885 · page 3

FURTHER traces have been [?] of the victims of the fatal yachting accident whih occurred on the eastern shore of Port Philip on December 13 or 14, which the two…

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Latest Telegrams. Fat Stock Market. the Suez Mail. Judge Dowling in Trouble. Miss Mckay, Chief Hospital Nurse. Tom Brown, Racehorse, Injured. Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P. In a Dangerous State. M. Louis Sentis Dead. Local Option League. Testimonial to Magistrates and Police. Abortion Case in Melbourne. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1885 · page 3

In the fat cattle aud sheep markets, a good supply was brought forward. Prices of cattle are firmer for best qualities, but are unaltered for other…

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Fatal Gun Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 4

YOUNG, Saturday.—A fatal accident occurred here this morning, by which a little boy named Reginald Barry Russell Bell, son of Mr. Sydney Bell, manager of the…

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Fatal Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 29 April 1885 · page 3

AN inquest was held before Mr. Coroner Stafford and a jury of 12 at the Bombala lockup on Monday week, touching the death of Thomas Brookfield…

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Fatal Buggy Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1885 · page 4

SHORTLY after midday on Saturday, information was conveyed to the police station that a [?] Tharwa road, [?] town, and…

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Telegrams. Fatal Accident near Queanbeyan. Three Men Blown Up. One Man Killed. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1885 · page 2

ANOTHER fatal accident has occurred on the Railway line, at No. 20 cutting, near Queanbeyan. Three men, Michael Dwyer and Phillip…

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Telegrams. Accident near Queanbeyan. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 2

J. HARVEY, a teamster working on the Queanbeyan Railway li[?]e, got his right leg terribly smashed by his waggon passing over it while the vehicle was heavily loaded…

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Telegrams. Sudden Death at Duntroon. Accident from Dynamite. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 3 June 1885 · page 2

MISS CAMPBELL, daughter of the late Mr. George Campbell, died suddenly from apoplexy at Duntroon House on Saturday night, Drs. Fitzpatrick…

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Appalling Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1885 · page 3

DURING one of the very busiest hours of Tuesday there occurred in, perhaps, the busiest and most bustling part of the city, where people were thronging to and fro, and…

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Shocking Accident by Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 3

AN old, fooble man named Galvin, who is about 70 years of age, a servant that had been a long time in the employ of Mr. P. J. Chifford, J.P., of Bredbo, was found…

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Late Telegrams. Accident near Queanbeyan. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 15 July 1885 · page 2

Thomas McGUIGAN, a boarding-housekeep on the Railway line near Queanbeyan, was received into the Queanbeyan Hospital this forenoon. He is suffering…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney Stock Sales. Salvationist Disturber in Trouble. English Tender for City Water Pipes, The Political Conference. Payment of Members. Sydney University Senate. Bishop Barry and Hon. W. B. Dalley. New Trial of a Libel Case. Gundagal Railway Accident. Land Office Day. New Edition of Laud Regulations. Railway to Bourke. Bishop Turner on Hospital Balls. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1885 · page 3

AT the fat cattle sales yesterday, the market hardened, especially for bet beet, which was sold at from 25s. to 29s. per 100 lbs…

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Telegrams. Fatal Accident. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1885 · page 3

JOHN O'NEILL, a teamster in the employ of Messrs. Johnson and Co., railway contractors, a most respectable man and father of a young…

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Death by Drowning

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1885 · page 3

As Me. Norris was returning with his nephew, a boy named Seanes, on Saturday evening, after an opossum shooting expedition, they had to cross in a canvas boat the…

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The Railway Accident. SYDNEY, Monday night

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1885 · page 3

At the inquest on the body of the telephone operator, p. Donovan, who was killed whilst crossing the railway line at Darling Harbor, the returned a…

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Caulfieid Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Thursday 22 October 1885 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—In[?] of Australian racing there is no such unfortunate accident recorded as that which occurred in the Caulfield Cup…

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The Caulfield Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1885 · page 3

Mr. CANDLER (says the A[?]gus) held an inquest at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Richmond, on Monday, [?] the body of Donald Nick[?], the…

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Fatal Accident. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 25 November 1885 · page 2

Another untimely blast occurred this afternoon in the railway tunnel near Queanbeyan, and it resulted in the wounding of four navvies, one of…

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A Terrible Fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 3

IT is not very long since the busy life in the busiest street in Sydney was terrified by the occurrence in its midst of an appalling accident, That…

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