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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

10 stories in South Coast's papers

Fatal Accident

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1880 · page 2

WE reprint from the Bathurst Free Press of the 31st ultimo, the following paragraph respecting the mournful termination of the life of Mr. J. S. Bradley, a young gentleman who had but a…

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How to Restore the Apparently Drowned

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 3

MR. ROBERTSON, M.R.C.S. gave a series of practical demonstrations of methods of restoring the apparently drowned, at the St. Kilda Town Hall on April 27. He commenced (says the…

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Accident to the Hunter (s)

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 4

THE I.S.N. Company’s steamer “Hunter,” (says the Shoalhaven News), which left Sydney for Tathra and Eden on the 12th instant, met with an accident a little to the north of…

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Fatal Accident

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 10 June 1880 · page 4

AT Lithgow on Wednesday, evening last, (says the Herald), a frightful accident took place on the railway line: A shuutor named Richard Eave whist engaged at work at the…

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Kiama. Sad and fatal Accident. Thursday, morning

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 24 June 1880 · page 2

Dr. William. Tarrant and Sergeant Healey were thrown from their buggy this morning, Sergeant Healey is dangerously injured, and Dr. Tarrant was killed instantaneously…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Fatal Accident

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1880 · page 2

IT is our sad duty to chronicle one of the most melancholy accidents that over happened in the district. By it Dr. William Tarrant, a gentleman who had by innumerable acts of…

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Fatai Accident at Kiama

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 1 July 1880 · page 4

On Thursday morning last we received the [?] intelligence from our Kiama correspondent that Dr William Tarrant had been instantly killed by being thrown from his buggy. The…

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Accidentally Drowned. Inquest at Boolong

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 2

ON Monday last an inquest touching the death of Mrs. Margaret Carmody, of Boolong, who had been found drowned on the previous day, was held before Mr. District Coroner T.M. Richards…

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Accidentally Drowned. Inquest at Boolong

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 23 December 1880 · page 2

ON Monday last an inquest touching the death of Mrs. Margaret Carmody, of Boolong, who had been drowned on the previous day, was held before Mr. District Coroner T. M. Richards,…

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Death by Drowning at Kiama. Kiama. Friday, 12 NOON

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 30 December 1880 · page 2

A quarry-man named Andrew Alderton, in blue metal trade hero was drowned last evening while bathing in the sea opposite, the cemetery. The affair has cast a gloom over…

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