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Southern Highlands · Accidents
11 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
ON Friday afternoon last while practising for the cavairy exeicise called tent pegging, Mr. J. E. Oxley met with a painful accident which fortunately turned out to be less serious than was at fi[?] anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE accident happened on the unopen section of the Fassifern railway between 7 and 8 o'clock on Thursday morning. A ballast train consisting of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday night lash Mr. W. Charter's iron-grey coaching horse, a very fine animal for which the owner had-refuse £30, strayed, with two other horses, into Mrs. Bowden yard and by some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last night, shortly after 6 o'clock, as Mr. E. Comer, of Mittagong was riding home, his horse came in collision with Mr. Salkeld's bakers cart; Mr. Sulkeld was driving into Bowral. The shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Queen's Jubilce day has been commemorated in disaster as well as demonstration. An excursion train conveying some 250 passengers to Peat's Ferry on the Hawkesbury, on Tuesday afternoon, became…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. WHITTAKER'S son met with a nasty accident yesterday afternoon, while carting large carthenware pipes. He fell off the cart, and one of the pipes foll on his right leg, inflicting a deep wound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Hawkesbury accident inquest was finished on Thursday, and the jury returned a verdict fastening the blame upon the laxity of the Railway Department, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR readers will regret to hear of the very painful accident which befell Mrs. H. Pember, of this town, on Saturday last. She accidentally tripped and fell against a barbed-wire fence, close to Mrs. Howard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday morning last a young man named Thorburn, a fireman, was seriously injured at Picton. He was in the act of oiling the engine when the driver, not noticing how he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred on the railway line at Meryla platform, about three miles south of Moss Vale, on Tuesday morning last, by which an unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PAINFUL accident happened to Mr. W. McEwan, local photographer, on Wednesday morning last. He was unpacking a bottle of strong ammonia, and on cutting the…
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