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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1861

12 stories in Murray's papers

Shocking Mining Accident Near Ballarat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 March 1861 · page 4

We did not get our Ballarat papers on Saturday last, and the following account of the foiling in of the Britannia claim, Carngham, therefore, escaped us:—…

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Magisterial Inquiry Into the Late Death From Drowning at Cornella

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Friday 17 May 1861 · page 2

THE body of the man mentioned in our last as supposed to have been drowned in the Edward River, was found on Thursday week last, just Mow the crossing-place between the stations of Messrs…

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Fatal Accident at Chiltern. Death of Mr. J. H. Gr Y.

The Border Post · Saturday 8 June 1861 · page 2

It is our painful duty to announce the de[?] of Mr. J. H. Gray, the well-known auctioneer. The unfortunate gentlemen, while in Chiltern yesterday afternoon determined to try young horse b e had…

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The Late Accident on the River

The Border Post · Saturday 29 June 1861 · page 1

The following letter, expressing the acknowledgements of Mr. Bayliss to the men who rescued him from a watery grave last Tuesday, has banded to us for publication :—…

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Fatal Collision Between Bush-hangers and Police

The Border Post · Wednesday 31 July 1861 · page 1

For some few months past the residents in the district of Cowra have been living in continual apprehension as to the safety of their lives and property by reason of a gang…

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Death by Drowning in a Lagoon

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Friday 6 September 1861 · page 2

OUR readers will remember that in our issue of the 16th ultimo, we reported that a man of the [?] of John Edwards, in the employ of Messrs. [?] Bakewell, storekeepers in Deniliquin, was missing,…

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Frightful Railway Accident on the Brighton Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 16 October 1861 · page 4

We have to record a most painful accident the London and Brighton line, which took place on Sunday, the 25th of August. The details of the 'accident may be thus narrated…

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Fatal Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 13 November 1861 · page 2

On Saturday last, a man of the name of Clark, met with a melancholy and sudden death through being run over by a horse and dray in Wodonga Place. A magisterial inquiry…

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Distressing and Fatal Accident

The Pastoral Times : incorporated with the Southern Courier · Friday 15 November 1861 · page 3

We have seldom been [?] upon to report a more distressing [?] which has within the [?] few [?] of one of its most [?] The [?] man who…

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Melancholy & Fatal Accident by Lightning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 27 November 1861 · page 2

It is our painful .duty to record one of the. most. melancholy catastrophes that perhaps ever occurred this district. On Wednesday evening last, heavy thunderclouds were travelling with indications of an…

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Extraordinary and Fatal Accident by Lightning

The Border Post · Saturday 7 December 1861 · page 6

It is our painful duty to record one of the most [?] that perhaps ever occurred in this district, and illustrating [?] truly the scriptural writing— “In…

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Dreadful Accident at Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 3

It is our painful duty to record an accident resulting in loss of life, which took place on board the Oregon, American barque, while on her voyage from San Francisco to this port…

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