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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Auckland. Drowned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1894 · page 3

During a heavy, gale on the 26th ultimo, three men were washed overboard and drowned from the, ketch Gratitude, bound, from Macquarie Island to The Bluff…

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Drowning Sensations

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1894 · page 6

To stand helplessly on the rivershore and witness the struggles of a drowning fellow-being is a harrowing experience, and little less…

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Distressing Accident. (Tamworth News.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 6

A FATAL accident of a very shocking character occurred to a young lady, Miss Chrissy England, whilst out driving with some friends on Sunday…

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Distressing Buggy Accident at Tamworth

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 3

A FATAL accident of a very shocking character occurred to a young lady, Miss Chrissy England, whilst out driving with some friends on Sunday afternoon. The party comprised Mr. Harry…

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Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 3

A young man named Harry Andrews was killed to-day on the premises of his employer, Mr. Geddes, butcher, Newtown. Andrews was passing beneath a small temporary…

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Constable Injured

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 3

On Saturday night Constable M'Quacker fired three shots after Henry James, a West Indian black, who butted the policeman in the stomach and ran away, but was subsequently…

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Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 3

A working man, name unknown, fell from the platform of a railway carriage on Saturday night, and was run over and killed…

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Collision at Sea. a Steamer Disabled

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE excitement was occasioned in Sydney on Monday by the receipt of news that a collision had occurred off the coast between Messrs. W. Howard Smith…

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Sensations of Drowning. (Mr. C. A. Hartley, in the Cincinnati TIMES-STAR.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 4

To stand helplessly on the river-shore and witness the struggles of a drowning fellowbeing is a harrowing experience, and little less than heart-rending to contemplate,…

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Intercolonial. Adeldide, Monday. ACCIDENT

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 5

A FEARFUL railway accident occurred yesterday evening to a cab and its occupants. The cab was smashed, the driver and one of the horses killed, and two of the…

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Adelaide. Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 3

A fearful railway accident occured yesterday evening to a cab and its occupants. The cab was smashed, and the driver and one of the horses killed. Two of the occupants are not expected to recover…

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Serious Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 3

Two painters, J. Brown and A. Murray, were painting the walls of the Hotel Metro pole this afternoon when the ladder collapsed, and the men fell 25ft., and crashed through a…

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Accident to School Children

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 3

One of the outhouses at the Erskine Public School subsided this morning. The floor was cement covering an immense pit. It is supposed that fourteen or fifteen children fell…

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Shocking Railway Fatality. ADELAIDE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1894 · page 4

A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the railway at the Grand Junction Crossing, between Port Adelaide and Allerton. A young lady named Agnes Peterson and a…

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Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1894 · page 3

A railway accident occurred on Saturday night at Lake Bathurst station. A stationery stock train on its way from Cooma to Sydney, was run into by a mixed train. The guard's…

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The Recent Collision

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 May 1894 · page 3

The Marine Board have found that the collision of Green Cape, between the steamer Konoowarra and the ship Titania, was due to the wrongful act of Thomas M'Cuskie, second…

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Mining Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 5

Two brothers, Samuel and Thomas Roberts, were killed yesterday by a fall of staging, in the Wentworth Proprietary Mine, Lucknow, land a third man, E. Beckford, was seriously…

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Intercolonial. Melbourne, Monday. Football Fatality

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 5

DURING a football match between Cheltenham and Moorabin, on Saturday, a player named Sturt received a blow on the temple from another man's elbow and died soon…

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London. Sunday Fatal Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 3

While a salute was being fired on the warship Galatea a shell exploded, decapitating the gunner and wounding three sailors…

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Melbourne. Fatal Football Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 3

During a football match between Cheltenham and Moorabin, on Saturday, a player named Sturt received a blow on the temple from another player's elbow, and died soon…

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