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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1870

2 stories in New England's papers

Railway Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 2

A RAILWAY accident occurred on the Bathurst side of the Zig-zag on Saturday evening. Owing to various causes, the train got on too much way, which could not be reduced sufficiently to prevent it running into…

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Fatal Accident. Death of Mrs. E. E. Rowsell

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 2

ON Monday evening the sad intelligence reached Armidale that in the forenoon Mrs. E. E. Rowsell had been drowned, in Moredun Creek, by the upsetting of the buggy in which she was being taken to Inverell…

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