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Accidents, 1886

9 stories in South Coast's papers

European News. Fatal Accident to Lord Guilford

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1886 · page 4

A FATAL accident befell Lord Guilford, Mas[?] of the Cattistock Hounds, while hunting in the Vale of Buckland, near De[?] His lordship was taking…

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The Shocking Powder Accident at [?]

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 2

We [?] the [?] Reporter that of the two young men who were so seriously injured by the explosion of a cake of blasting powder, one died on Friday…

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Railway Accident

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 3

Rumours reached town this morning that a railway accident had happened at the Zigzag. and that several persons had been killed and many more injured.as…

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No Need of Drowning

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 April 1886 · page 4

THE following may be worth £1000 to you if you remember it:—The human body weighs a pound in the water, and a chair will carry two persons—that is, it will keep…

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Frightful Gun Accident. m

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 3

Queanbeyan Tuesday.—A frightful gun accident occurred in the. hush near Queanbeyan last ungilt. Several young men were opossum shooting, among whom were…

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Fatal Alpine Accident

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 June 1886 · page 4

A fatal accident is reported from switzerland. A young painter named Durr, belonging to Burgdorff, attempted last Sunday to ascend the Mythen, in the Canton Schwyz…

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Railway Accident in Tasmania. Sydney, July 23

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 2

ANOTHER fatal railway accident happened in Tasmania on Thursday. The express train from Launceston went over the Bridgewater viaduct; the end…

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Fatal Accident

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1886 · page 4

At 7.30 a.m. yesterday, the dead body of a than named John Anderson [?] found lying on his back at the toot of a [?] of stairs in the offices of the Victoria [?]…

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Fatal Collision between the [?]warra and the Helco Nicoll. Keilawarra Sunk in Seven Minutes. From Thirty to Forty Lives Lost. (Abridged from the Echo.) Trial Bay

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 2

The following telegram was received from Trial Bay this morning:—“ Steamer Helen Nicoll anchored in the bay ibis morning; after being in collision with the steamer…

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