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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

73 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 4

Intercolonial. Melbourne, Monday. Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1888 · page 4

A SERIOUS collision occurred near Wombat on Saturday. The fireman of the goods train and several passengers were injured…

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Harbour Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

A collision occurred yesterday in the Harbour. The steamer Pearl cut down and sank Dr. Milford's yacht Sao, and Mrs. Milford and her two daughters had…

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Accidental Marriages

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 3

MARRIAGES are often the result of accident. It seems strange, but the most prudent persons will sometimes conceive an irresistible attachment at the suggestion of a word or a look…

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Serious Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1888 · page 4

A jockey, named Hilder, was thrown while riding at the Canterbury races on Saturday, and received a serious shock to his system, with fracture of the collar…

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Prince of Naples Injured

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 4

The Prince of Naples, heir apparent to the throne of Italy, has been wounded by the explosion of a dynamite shell, while witnessing some military trials at Rome…

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Uralla & District. Uralla, May 8, 1888. Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1888 · page 8

A VERY serious accident, which by a kind providence was prevented from being a fatal one, happened at Rice and Co.'s claim on Friday last. The winding gear…

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Fearful Accident to a Lady While Hunting

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1888 · page 3

A SERIOUS accident occurred to a Miss Popham, of Little Cote, near Hungerford, England. Miss Popham was bunting with the Craven…

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Our Telegraphic News. [Through Greville's Company.] New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. [Lodged 12; received 2.] Death by Drowning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1888 · page 5

MR. T. A. Strickland, merchant, formerly a partner of Young and Lark, was drowned, yesterday, off Manly, by the capsizing of a small skiff. His body has…

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Two Girls Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 3

GERTIE KIDGELL, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kidgell, and Hannah Kavanagh, aged 23 years, who for some time past occupied the position of domestic servant in Mr. Kidgell's…

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The Big Collision Case

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

A rule nisi has been granted for a new trial, in the big collision action, Waratah versus Emu…

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The Drowning of Mr. T. A. Strickland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon, the City Coroner, Mr. H. S. Shiell, J.P., began an inquest at the Grand Pier Hotel, Manly, concerning the death of Mr. Thomas Arthur…

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The Latest. Sydney, Monday Night. [Lodged 6; received 6.45.] Accidents

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

No less than 692 accidents were treated at the Sydney Hospital last week…

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A Serious Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Buckland, President of the Bank of New South Wales, and his daughter, Mrs. Dr. M'Kellar, were thrown oat of their baggy, in George-street, on…

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Another Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 4

The steamer Nemesis, and the ship Galatea collided in Newcastle Harbour this morning, both vessels being damaged, bat no lives were lost or persons injured…

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Railway Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1888 · page 4

A railway collision occurred at Como, near the great iron bridge Illawarra line, 12 miles from Sydney, last Friday. An engine ran into a passenger train, and the…

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Another Railway Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1888 · page 4

Another rail way accident occurred this morning at Lake Bathurst platform on Cooma branch line. A mixed train from Goulburn, standing at the platform, was…

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Fatal Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1888 · page 5

The young man named Women, who was blown off his bicycle by a heavy gale of wind, last Thursday, at North Shore, and run over by a passing vehicle, died…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Armidale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1888 · page 3

A FATAL and most melancholy accident occurred on Saturday evening week at about 7 o'clock at the Armidale railway station, by which Mr. Peter B Gleeson, a clerk in the parcels office…

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A Fatal Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1888 · page 5

A collision occurred between a milk cart and a cab, in Botany Road, on Saturday, when a woman named Riley and a little boy seventeen months old received…

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URALLA & District. Uralla, Saturday, ACCIDENT

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1888 · page 4

On Thursday morning Mr. Everett drove his waggonette up to the Post Office, and left the horses standing for a few minutes whilst he was speaking to Mr. Woodall…

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