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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1869

7 stories in South Coast's papers

New[?]astle. Fatal Accident at the Cliffs

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1869 · page 2

YESTEUDAY afternoon, an accident, which has created feelings of the de[?]pest sorrow throughout the city, occurred to a young man named Lewis Jones, son of our…

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Lamentable Hunting Accident

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1869 · page 4

ON Thursday, .February 4, a sad fatality occurred by the upsetting of a boat in which a numbed of gentlemen connected wit h the York and A[?]ty Hunt were crossing the…

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Fatal Accident—Coroner’s Inquest

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 2

ON Thursday last, the District Coroner, T. M. Richards, Esq, and a jury of five, held an investigation into the cause of the death of William Colver of Nowra Hill, farmer,…

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Accident at the Bomaderry Ferry

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1869 · page 2

WE have to report that on Wednesday morning last, an accident occurred at the Bomaderry Ferry, resulting in great loss of horse stock, and narrowly in the sacrifice of human…

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Miscellaneous. Fatal Accident to a Railway Guard

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 4

—A fatal accident took place at Moat-lane, the junction of the Llanidloes branch with the main Cambrian line. Thomas Hunt, the deceased, was the temporary guard of…

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Fatal Accident.—Coroner’s Inquest

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident occurred on Monday week inst, resulting in the death of Mr. Joseph Lee, of Borrier. An inquest was held at [?]parang on Saturday last before…

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Capsizing: of the Boat. Post-office One Man Drowned

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 4

ABOUT noon on Thursday last, a Government boat, with a crew of four men, went down the harbour with the supplementary English mail, in charge of two employees of the…

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