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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

12 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Fatal Boat Accidents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1886 · page 3

THE customary rejoining in connection with the ushering in the New Year were unfortune[?] marred by the occurrence of another of those fatal boat accidents with which the…

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Boat Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

A SAD boat accident, [?] in the loss of three men [?] to the Orient steamship [?] occurred in the harbour on Sunday afternoon…

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 2

PENRITH, Monday.—The railway accident at the Emu Plains Zigzag this morning proves to be of not a very serious nature, although from the…

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Fatal Tramway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 2

A FATAL accident occurred (the Argus reports) on Tuesday afternoon on the Richmond tramway line,near Russell-street, the victim being a lad 10…

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 5 May 1886 · page 3

THE Melbourne Daily Telegraph reports that on Tuesday week, Mr. George Randall, an employee of the Railway Departent, living at…

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 3

WE learn from Mr. D.E. Troughton C.P.S., who returned from Sydney to Cooma on Sunday night, that a serious collision between a tourist…

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Telegram The Railway Accident. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 3

A SERIOUS railway accident took place at Bowal at 1230 on Saturday afternoon between the tourist train from Sydney to Goulburn and…

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Telegrams. Fatal Gun Accident. Carbinal Moran. Death of Mr. Plummer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1886 · page 2

QUEANBEYAN, Tuesday, 11 a.m. A FRIGUTHFUL gun accident occurred in the bush near Queanbeyan lat night. Several young men, among…

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Fatality on the Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 3

A HORRIBLE fatality occurred on the railway line at Marrickville railway station on Monday afternoon, when a married woman named Alice…

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Two Men Drowned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 4

A SAD occurrence happened at Little Bay on Sunday morning, and resulted in the loss of two lives, while that of another man was keenly imperilled. At about 9 a.m.,…

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

HOBART, Wednesday.—The scene of the wreck and carnage was on the Fingal line, on the Launceston side. The line at the point in question describes a…

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Telegrams. Accident to Navvies. QUEANBEYAN

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1886 · page 2

Yesterday evening two navvies got imprisoned in a tunnel three miles from Queanbeyan through a fell of earth. When the men were released…

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