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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Serious Accident to a Somnambulist. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 2

An elderly Woman named AmueGrocock, whilst walking in her sleep last night, fell from a balcony in Kinppax-street to the pathway, a…

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Revolver Accident. Sydney, January 22

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1895 · page 2

A lad named Brindle, was accidentally shot dead with a revolver on Sunday a[?] Gunyal, neat Merriwa, by Robert Cafe, [?] carrier…

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River Fatality. London, January 24

The Western Herald · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 2

A steamer on the river Ohio conveying a large number of passengers suddenly sank, 37 being drowned…

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Fatal Accident in Sydney. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1895 · page 2

William Drekinshaw, a drayman, whilst emptying a [?]art on the top of an embankment at Annandale to-day, the vehicle fell over and the man was…

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The Late Bathing Fatality Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

The body recovered at Na[?]abeen on Saturday has been identified as that of the late Mr Folkhead, who was drowned whilst bathing with Mr…

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The Harbor Collision. Sydney, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

The Marine Board gave its decision to-day in connection with the collision between the steamers Princess and Abwina in the harbor, by which four…

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A Carpenter Injured. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

A carpenter named Alfred Tighe whilst erecting a plank flooring at the sewerage cutting at Erskineville, fell to the bottom of the cutting. He was…

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Intercolonial. Awhina—princes Collision. Sydney January 29

The Western Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1895 · page 2

The Marine Board has decided that Captain Peterson of the Awhina was in default in the collision with the Princess and has called upon him to show cause…

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A Terrible Accident at Dripstone. Wellington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 2

As Mr. Casbell, a farmer near Dripstone, was mowing lucerne to-day his son aged six years got in the way of the machine whose teeth nearly severed…

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The Princess Collision. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 2

The Marine Board yesterday suspended for 12 months the certificate of Captain Petersen, of the steamer Awhina, for default in connection with…

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Princess-a Whina Collision Sydney, February [?]

The Western Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1895 · page 3

The Marine Board yesterday suspended for 12 months, the certificate of Captain Peterson, of the tug boat Awhina, for default in connection with the Princess…

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Intercolonial a Painful Accident. Sydney, February 8

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 2

By the bursting of the digesters at the Gunnedah Boiling-down works, on Saturday, seven men were injured, two of them being seriously scalded…

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Terrible Fatality at a Fire. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1895 · page 3

A large fire occurred at a hard were store at Lyon, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America. A terrible explosion took place which rent the building…

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Accident to a Steamer. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1895 · page 2

The steamer Pakaki while berthing alongside Devon port wharf, Tasmania, struck a rock and knocked a hole in her buttom. WHOOPING COUGH" cured by using…

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Drowned at a Picnic. Parramatta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 2

At a picnic of the St. Peter's Methodist Sunday, School which was held at Parramatta to-day William Handcock was drowned in the river…

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Fatality at Watson's Bay

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 February 1895 · page 2

ANOTHER fatality occurred at Watson's Bay, or more properly The Gap, on Sunday afternoon. It has been customary for a young man named Harry Moyle to go fishing at Watson's Bay, and…

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A Collision. London, February 25

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 2

The barque Beltana from Adelaide to London has been lowed into Gravesend in a crippled condition, the result of a collision in the English Channel…

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Railway Accident. [?]ruary 25

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 2

The fireman ann [?]ngers of the [?] Sale train were in the [?] train leas[?] the rails. The eng[?]iage [?] smashed…

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Cablegrams Mining Fatality in America. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 3

A fire occurred at a mine at Cerillos, in New Mexico, in the United States. Twenty-five miners' perished, 65 others being entembed…

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Drowned in the Yarra. Sydney, March 5

The Western Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 3

The body of a man, supposed to be that of J. Christian, a resident of Redfern, Sydney, has been found in the Yarra, at Melbourne…

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