Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

24 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Terrible Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 4

A SHOCKING accident I appended in F[?] year [?] evening between a and [?] o’clock. [?] victim being a youth of 17 years named Robertson…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Accident

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 19 January 1893 · page 2

We regret to report the death by accident of Mr. D. S. Petrie, of Riversdale, near Nowra. Whilst felling a tree near the river last Monday he was struck by a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Drowning Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1893 · page 2

ON Saturday news reached Bega that Mrs. E. Mort and a young lady on a visit to Bodalla had been drowned in the Ture[?]s River whilst bathing. From particulars…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Drowning Fatality at Bodalla. FUTHER DETAILS.(from Tuesday's Daily Telegraph)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 2

THE news of the sad fatality at Bodaila was received with intense regret in society circles in Sydney, where both Mrs. Mort and Miss Dight were very well known…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Buggy Accident in Nowra. Two Persons Injured

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 2

As a baggy occupied by Captain White, of the dredge Pluto, and Mrs. Alex. Pollock, of Nowra, was standing opposite the residence of Mr. A. Patterson in…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Sail Fatal Accident. Sudden Death of Mrs E. M Mort and Miss Dight

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 2

On Saturday last about 6.30 p.m. the town of Moruya was thrown into the most profound state of grief and consternation nation on receipt by wire, the melancholy…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatal Accident

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

We regret to have to state that Mr. William Ballantyne, a former resident of this district, was accidentally killed whilst engaged prospecting at a place…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Shocking Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1893 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident under sensational circumstances happened at Melbourne on Saturday, at the new buildings in course of erection for the Equitable…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Balloon Accidents

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 4

A fatal accident occured loan Italian aeronaut named Antoucoi, at Arezzo, on April 9. His balloon hand scarcely left the ground when a guest of wind…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Collision in the Harbor

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 5

A collision occurred in the harbor on Thursday night between a North Shore ferry boat and the steam collier Tamar. The latter struck the former on the stem,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Horrible Accident. Explosion of a Kerosene Lamp

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1893 · page 4

The Danevirke correspondent of the Otago (N Z.) Daily Times writes—A shocking affair happened here last night. Willis, nightsoil contractor, was…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 29 July 1893 · page 4

Quite a gloom (writes a correspondent) was cast over the district by the intelligence, flashed, by wire from the Richmond River, of the sudden death by accident of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Accident near Berry

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1893 · page 2

On Wednesday night last, about 400yds from Berry station, a man named Patrick Sheedy, aged 35, a laborer, was run over by the 9.30 train,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Fatal Boating Accident. to the Editor of the Shovlhaven News

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 2

Sir,-I desire to express my regret publicly at my absence from the funeral of our late much-respected Church members and townsmen. The reason of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fatal Accident

Moruya Examiner · Friday 13 October 1893 · page 2

ON Tuesday, evening last a young man named Ernest Watson met will a fatal accident, a tree having fallen on him, killing him instantaneous. The young man was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident to Rev. T. Heffernan

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 21 October 1893 · page 7

His many friends in this district will regret to learn that the Rev. T. Heffernan met with a very serious accident on Sunday last. A telegram to the Sydney papers…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Accidental Death, Experimental Hanging

Moruya Examiner · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 4

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Post office Hotel, Redfern [?] R[?]fern on Wednesday oil the body of the boy Walker Samuel Horns, who was found…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Accident to Mr. Tames Murray, Sen. a Valuable Horse Killed

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 25 November 1893 · page 4

Our Conjola correspondent "writes :—A very painful accident happened at Conjola on Wednesday afternoon last, by which Mr. J. Murray's racehorse Tyrone was killed, and the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Telegraphic News Sydney Friday 2.30 p.m. Mining Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 8

A very severe accident has occurred at Broken Hill A cage containing six men was precipitated down a shaft 300ft The men were all severley injure…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Fatal Shooting Accident at Termeil

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 7

On Monday evening a young man named Robert Deal employed by Mr. S. Pickering as a farm laborer at Termeil died from the effects of a gun-shot wound accidentally…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →