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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

17 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Painful Accidents

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 1

Mrs. Thomas RYAN, of East Kangaloon, met with a serious accident in Bowral at midday on Monday last. She had arrived by train from Mittagong and was met by her friends…

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Serious Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 2

ABOUT the best swimmer we ever knew, says the Picton Argus, got drowned, and now the smartest man on the railway has gone to grief. It appears that Mr. Robert…

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Accident at the Gib Quarries

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 4

Mr McJeannett, foreman at the Gib Quarries met with a painful accident yesterday. Some of the workman had put a blast in the rock on the previous evening, but it…

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Buggy Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last a very narrow escape from a serious accident happened to two young children—a little girl about 6 years of age, and a boy about 8—son and…

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Fatal Blasting Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident took place at the Bombo quarri's, Kiama, on Monday. It appears that two men were charging a hole 20 ft. deep in a column of basaltic rock some 60,…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4

As Mr. A Ritter was entering the meeting at Moss Vale last Friday night, a telegram was placed in his bands saving that his brother Ernest had been thrown from his…

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Very Severe Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 2

A PAINFULLY severe accident happened yesterday at the homestead of Mr. A. Lamb, a short distance out of Bowral. At the home-stead is a chaff-cutting machine which is…

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Accident to the Mayor

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 1

MR. J. G. MORRIS, Mayor of Bowral, met with a painful accident on Monday last. He was driving home in his sulky, and when close to his residence the horse became…

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Buggy Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 20 June 1888 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning as the Rev. G. Sheppard, of Berrima, accompanied by Mrs. Sheppard, was driving from Berrima to Bowral to catch the express train for Sydney,…

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Accident on the Railway Line near Gunning

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 July 1888 · page 4

AN accident to the express goods train occurred on Friday at about half-a-mile this side of Gunning station. The good fortune which generally attends Now South Wales…

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The Accident to the Express Goods

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 July 1888 · page 4

MR. SUTHERLAND, in reply to Mr. Barbour, said in the Assembly on Wednesday that the axle of a "C" van broke at Gunning on Friday, the 8th instant. Two…

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Serious Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 4 August 1888 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cope and infant drove into Bowral with a horse and buggy. Mr. Cope left the horse standing at the railway gates, while he went…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 2

MISS R. FARROW received a severe fall at the skating rink last Saturday afternoon, while skating with a friend; and she has since been confined to bed. It was an…

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Tale. the Shaft in the Amargosa. a Strange Fatality which clung to a Sine of Fabulous Wealth

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 2

"Do I believe there is gold in the Amargosa range? I know it," and my companion nodded significantly. "But not for all the gold of Ophir—not for the richest are ever dug…

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Painful Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 1

MR. H. M. Oxley met with a painful accident on Sunday last. When out riding, in the paddock, he was thrown from his horse, and had his knee-cap dislocated, and…

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Buggy Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 1

MR. E. E. Row, manager of the Commercial Bank, Berrima, and Mr. Liardet, of Bowral, experienced a somewhat exciting buggy adventure at Berrima on Thursday…

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Appalling Railway Disaster in America. 67 Persons Killed and 100 Injured. Heartrending Scenes

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 November 1888 · page 4

A FEARFUL collision occurred on October 10, on the Lehigh Valley Railway, America, resulting in the death of 67 persons, while over 100 were wounded. The scene of the…

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