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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1868

11 stories in South Coast's papers

Fatal Railway Collision at Newtown

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 3

THE most serious railway collision that has lately happened on our railways, occurred yesterday morning, at 9 o’clock at the New-town Railway Station. The passenger, train,…

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Railway Accident. Collision of Trains and Loss of Life

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1868 · page 3

One of those distressing and terrible casualties occurring from time to time on railways—which seem, in some inexplicable manner, suddenly…

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Accidental Death

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 5 February 1868 · page 2

Os Saturday last a Magisterial Inquiry in the absence o( the District Coroner, was held before Alfred Elyard, Esq., at Berrellen, touching the death of Mrs. Eliza…

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The Drowning of the Bishop of Grafton and Two Others

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1868 · page 3

The following account of this lamentable occurrence was' given at the inquest by the survivor Creighton, who deposed that he was a labourer in the employment of the late Bishop; about…

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Frightful Railway Accident

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 29 April 1868 · page 2

The New York correspondent of the London Standard writes:— The train which was thrown from the bridge at Angola was two hours behind…

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Appaling Railway Accident and Loss of Life

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

The New York correspondent of the Landon Standard writes ;— The train which was thrown from the bridge at Angola was two hours behind…

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Railway Collision

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 2

ON Friday morning last, a collision took place on the railway at Chippendale. A goods train, comprising about sixty waggons and cattle boxes, was being shunted, on the…

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The Bega Gazette. "Quod petis hic est." Saturday, September 12,1868. Railway Collision at Chippendale

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 2

On Friday, September 4th instant, a goods train, comprising between fifty and sixty produce waggons and cattle boxes, was being shunted, on the down…

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Frightful Accident at the South Head

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE of a most shocking occurrence at the South Head was received in Sydney on Monday afternoon. It appears that two men accompanied by two women…

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The Awful Railway Accident in North Wales. (From the Liverpool Mercury, Aug. 29.) Abergele, Sunday evening

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Thursday 5 November 1868 · page 4

The terrible calamity which happened in this locality to the Irish limited mail express, on Thursday, sad as it first seemed, turns out to be more dreadful…

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Serious Railway Accident near Paramatt[?]

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1868 · page 3

As accident of a very [?] nature happened upon the Great Western line on Tuesday morning, at the Tongabbee Bank, Some two miles from Parramatta. It…

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