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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Railway Collision at Redfern. Two Trains Collide. ( by Telegraph.) Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1894 · page 2

A terrible collision took place at the Redfern railway station this morning between the Goulburn, and Homebush trains, just outside the signal box; A number…

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The Injured

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 2

Henry S. Osborne Henry Hart, junr. J. T. Ralston Mr. A’Beckett…

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A Spiash—And Eternity. the Numba Ferryman Drowned

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 November 1894 · page 3

AUGUSTUS WILLIAM MUNN, the ferryman between Back Forest and Numba, was drowned on Sunday night. It would soon that Munn came over from Back Forest with two passengers…

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The Late Railway Catastrophe. Injured Recovering. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1894 · page 2

There are no serious developments among the injured survivors of the Redfern collision. The patients are making fair progress towards recovery…

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The Wrecked Steamer Wairabapa. Number of Drowned, Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1894 · page 2

The death roll of the steamer Wairarapa, wrecked on the Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, is now fixed at 105 passengers, and 20 of the crew. Eighty-two passengers…

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Accident to a Goods Train. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1894 · page 2

An accident happened to the goods train beyond Tamworth, nine trucks from Sydney being completely wrecked. The accident was caused by a truck…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. (From our Telegraphic Correspondent.) Collision in Sydney Harbor. Further Deaths. Searching for the Bodies. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1894 · page 2

Two more persons have succumbed from the effects of the shock in the late collision off Chowder Bay. The police have been unsuccessful in dragging for the bodies of…

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