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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1883

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Railway Accident

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 3

AN accident fortunately unattended by loss of life, occurred on the Southern line at Colo Vale, on Saturday evening last. At this station on the railway there is a loop…

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Fatal Accident at Joadja Creek

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 2

A SAD case of death by drowning occured at Joadja Creole on Thursday last. It appears the infant son of Mr. Thomas Clawson, engaged in the keroseno tin manufactory,…

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Serious Accident

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1883 · page 2

A MAN named Alexander Levette met with a serious accident at Robertson on Saturday afternoon. He, it appears, was looking after a sick man of the name of Garrett, living in the neighbourhood…

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Original Contributions. a Novel Accident, or How Con. Broke His Arm. [Respectfully dedicated to J. W. O.' as an acknowledegment of the graceful eulogium or compliment he bestowed on the author through the columns of the "Free Press" on the 10th inst.]

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1883 · page 3

'TIS not often now-a-days that we read of a novelty in accidents, and many will argue that it is a term which cannot be applied to an accident. They will tell you that if you take up any paper from the leading…

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Original Contributions. a Novel Accident, or How Con[?] Broke His Arm. Conclusion

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1883 · page 2

We now prepared our camp for the night, and being finished I lay down on the bed of leaves and and straw which I had prepared for myself, looking at the beautiful country which stretched away for…

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Death by Drowning

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon last great consternation was caused in Mittagong when the fact became known that two men, named Thomas Wostbury, aged 26 years, a married man with a wife and three children,…

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