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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

5 stories in New England's papers

Terrible Accident in a Church

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 May 1875 · page 4

A TERRIBLE accident occurred in St. Andrew's Church, New York, on the 25th February. The New York Tribune gives the following thrilling particulars:--…

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Singular Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 8

AN alarming accident happened at the Jerusalem Chamber, Cowpers' Court, on March 2, between 2 and 3 o'clock, when most of the leading merchants of the…

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The Fatal Accident at the 'S. M. Herald' Office

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1875 · page 6

THE 'Echo' says:—An inquest was held this morning at Tighe's Currency Lass Hotel, Pitt-street, touching the death of one Thomas Doyle,…

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A Crowd of Pilgrims Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1875 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE was received at Madura, on the 8th August, of a frightful catastrophe, which befel a party of pilgrims to the Mahalingam shrine, on the Tinnevelly…

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Loss of the S. S. Pacific.--200 Persons Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1875 · page 4

The American ship Messenger, Captain F. G. Gilkey, arrived nine days from San Francisco at Port Townsend, and reports picking up a part of the pilot house twenty miles south of Cape…

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