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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1856

2 stories in Murray's papers

Melancholy Accident Ok Board the Lady Augusta. (From the South Australian Register.) Goolwa, October 12

The Border Post · Saturday 25 October 1856 · page 2

A coroner’s inquest was held today, before Mr Higgins, J.P., on the bodies of Samuel Derby, engineer, and Francis Clome, stoker on board the Lady Augusta, who came to…

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Serious Accident to One of the Murray Steamers.—two Lives Lost

The Border Post · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 1

The steamer Sturt, M’Coy, master, arrived at Port Elliott with about 100 tons of merchandise on board, on the morning of the 15th instant, where she discharged about…

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