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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

89 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 5

Terrible Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1893 · page 3

A distressing accident occurred at Crookwell on Saturday evening. A farmer named John Savage had just unhooked the trace chains of his horse when the chain fastened…

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Found Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 3

The body of Frederick Toms, engineer of the Crown-street reservoir, was found in a dam at Centennial Park yesterday…

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Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 3

A railway accident occurred on Saturday near Bundanoon, an engine and two goods carriages leaving the line. No person was injured…

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Terrible Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1893 · page 3

Another fatality, the tenth, occurred this morning at the new Equitable Life Assurance Buildings in Collins street. Andrew Robinson, a mason, aged 23, was standing on a…

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The Boating Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 3

There is no trace of the missing men, Vider and Kingsfo[?]d, of the boating fatality yesterday. It is considered likely they have fallen a prey to sharks. The inquest on the other…

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A Footballer Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 3

Samuel Jordan, a well-known footballer, was drowned while bathing at Glenbrook, near Penrith, on Saturday…

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The Sensations of a Drowning Kan

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 3

I FELL into the river some time ago, and was fished out, more dead than alive, after I had risen and sank three times. How did I lite it?…

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Dickens's Railway Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 3

THE new number of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL contains the concluding article in the series of recollections of her father which Miss Mamie Dickens has…

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The Boating Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 2

At the inquest on the body of the victims of the Kiama boating fatality a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. The funeral of the four bodies recovered…

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