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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

9 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Coach Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 January 1886 · page 2

A MIRACULOUSLY narrow escape from what might have been a terrible accident happened a few days ago to eight gentlemen and two ladies who, were driving down the kangaroo, mountains in…

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Sad Case of Drowning at Burradoo

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 February 1886 · page 2

ON Sunday morning last a melancholy case of drowning occurred in a waterhole in the Wingecarribee Creek, Burradoo, about two miles from Bowral. Mary Turner, the unfortunate woman who…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends Monday, May 10, 1886. Railway Collision at Bowral. Hair- Breadth Escape. Sixteen Passengers Injured

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 2

AN almost miraculous escape from a fearful railway catastrophe happened at Bowral to the tourist train which arrived from Sydney at midday on Saturday, the 8th instant…

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Bowral Railway Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

THOSE injured in the railway accident on Saturday last have, so far as we are able to learn, all recoved, or very nearly so, with the exception of Mrs. Hannaford, who still…

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The Late Railway, Accident at Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 2

TPE following is an abstract of the report and finding of the board appointed by the Commissioner for Railways to inquire into the circumstances connected with the,…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

AN accident occurred last Saturday night about two miles from Bowral on the Kangaloon road. As Mr. and Mrs. Larcombe were returning home to West Kangaloon,…

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The Late Railway Accident at Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 June 1886 · page 2

MR. W. McCOURT has written the following letter to the Sydney Morning Herald:—Sir,—In order to find out if blame was attached to anyone in connection with the…

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Another Railway Accident in Tasmania. One Passenger Killed

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

ANOTHER railway accident occurred on the Fingal line last Tuesday. A ballast engine and train ran off the line on the Fingal side of Launceston, at a quarter to four in the…

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Accident to a Cricketer

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 3

AN accident, which is likely to terminate fatally, occurred on Saturday last on Moore Park to a cricketer belonging to the Clyde Cricket Club, named Harry Sippel, better…

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