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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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A Boat Capsized. Four Men Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 2

A boat capsized at Botany Heads yesternight, four men being drowned and two saved…

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Fatal Accident. [By Telegraph.] SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 5

HENRY BADIOR, 18 years of age, was killed by a fall from a horse on Saturday night. The deceased, with others, came from Glendon to play in a cricket watch on Saturday…

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Fatal Buggy Accident. [By Telegbaph.] Adelaide, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 5

A. BUGGY accident occurred at Port Pirie yesterday, and Mr. Stow, a magistrate, his wife, and two daughters were thrown out. Mrs. Stow died this morning from…

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Fatal Accident. Adelaide

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 3

By a buggy accident at Port Pirie yesterday, Mr. Stow, magistrate, his wife, and two daughters were thrown out. Mrs. Stow died this morning from the injuries she received. The rest escaped…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Floods in Queensland. Six Persons Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 2

A heavy flood has occurred at Port Douglas, Queensland. Six persons were drowned…

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The Parkes Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1895 · page 3

At the inquest on the fatal fire at Parkes, whereby Mrs. Quinn, aged 29, her sister, Miss Lena Perry, aged 24, and Mrs Quinn's five children were burned to death, resulted in a verdict of there…

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A Terrible Accident. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1895 · page 3

A FEARFUL accident happened about 8 o'clock last night at the Metropolitan Board of Works sewerage tunnel at Spottiswood, near Melbourne. This tunnel had…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. The Spottifiwoode Fatality. Bodies Recovered

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 2

The bodies of the six men entombed in Spottiswoode sewerage tunnel at Melbourne were reoovered yesterday. Dr. M'Lean, who examined the bodies…

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Serious Racing Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 5

AT the Randwick races, to-day, in the hurdle race, two jockeys, named Whalley and Cripps, were thrown from their horses. The former soon, recovered, but Cripps was…

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Accidents to Jockeys

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 5

At the Randwick Races to-day, the jockeys Whalley and Cripps were thrown from their horses in the Hurdle Race. The former soon recovered, but Cripps was badly injuaed, having his collar…

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Cablegrams Sydney, Tuesday. Collapse of a Roof46 Persons Injured

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 April 1895 · page 2

While Mr. Moody was holdiag a service in Texas, America, on Sunday, the roof collapsed, and 46 people were injured…

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Supposed Drowning Fatality. [By Telegraph.] Auckland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 5

A BOAT has been fomtd at Mauukan upset, and it is feared that two brothers named Laurie, with their two Bons, have been drowned,…

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The Toowoomba Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 3

The fourth death in connection with the late fire at Toowoomba occurred yesterday. Wm. King, the oldest boy, aged ten, succumbed to his injuries. The other boy is not expected to recover…

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Boating Fatality. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 5

A BOATING party were out sailing on the Yavra, yesiterday, and bad just reached the scene of the late sewer disaster when a gast of wind struck the sail and upset the…

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Collision in the Atlantic

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 5

The Coroner's inquiry into the loss of the North German Lloyd's steamship Elbe, which was run into in the North Sea early one morning in the month of February last…

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Railway Collision

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 5

A serious accident took place at Unanderra to- day. The Mount Kembla Coal Companys engine was pushing some empty trucks, when they came into collision with a milkcart…

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Tram Fatality. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 5

OLIVER LINDEMAN, aged nine years, soil of Captain Lindeuian, of the Marine Board, Was ran over by the North. Shore cable tram yesterday afternoon, on coming from…

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Railway Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 5

A SERIOUS accident occurred at Unanderra to-day, A Mount Ketubla Coal Company's engine was pushing' some empty trucks when they came into collision with a milk…

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Poetry ACCIDENTS

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1895 · page 3

A vision seen by Plato the divine; Two shuddering souls came, forward, waiting doom From Rhadamanthus in the nether…

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Serious Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1895 · page 5

AT the Hawkesbury "agricultural show, on Saturday, —George Lindsay was thrown heavily in the hunters' contest, and his condition is reported as critical…

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