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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1890

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Drowning of Three Children in a Dam

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

CAROOAR, Friday.—At Mount Macquarie yesterday afternoon two little girls children of D. Arthur, a farmer, aged 9 and 6 years, and a daughter of J. Hoadley, [?]mer, went…

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Shocking Accident at a Hat: Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

MELBOURNE. Friday.—A terrible accident accurred at the Standard Hat Factory, North, Fitzroy, to-day. One of the employees, named Emily Adams, aged 16, during lunch…

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Fatal Mining Accident at Charters Towers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

Charters Towers, Sunday.— "A terrible and fatal accident occuraell yesterday at the School Reserve deep shaft. Four men were down boring with the machine when an…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 2

LAST week Misele Webb, daughter of, Mr. Webb, farmer, Sutton Forest, while at play with some other children, was struck on the left eyeball by something—probably a piece…

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Accidental Poisoning

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 2

A CASE of asccidental poisoning from the use of tinned salmon is recorded in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, of 9th inst., and a similar unpleasant experience happened to a lady in…

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Railway Accident on the Southern Line

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 1

A RAILWAY accident occurred on Wednes lay morning at Barber's Creek, four miles from yass stationOne stock train was following another from Rowning, and when the first train was endenvoring to get…

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Terrible Colliery Accident. London

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 February 1890 · page 3

The inhabitants of Newport, Pembrokeshire, were startled yesterday by a load explosion in the direction of Abesychan Colliery. Crowds of people immediately, rushed towards…

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Another Fatal Tram Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 February 1890 · page 3

ABOUT 20 mintues to 9 o'clock on Saturday morning last a shocking fatal accident occured in Paddington, when a little girl named Mabel Lloyd, between 5 and 6…

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Serious Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 2

MR. ALFRED LAMB'S overseer, R. Evans, who has been the victim of two serious accidents, met with a third on Sunday afternoon. He was using a newly sharpened chisel, when it…

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Letters to the Editor. The Accident at Bong Bong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 2

SIR,—In reading your account of our accident in the Bong Bong river last Tuesday, many people might think that my husband swam away and saved himself, leaving me…

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Wreck of a Barque. the Captain and Seven Men Drowned. Terrible Suffering of Survivors

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 4

Auckland, Tuesday.—The barque Emilie, from the Bluff, bound for Pont Pirie,under charter to Mr. J. G. Ward, has been wreoked. She was struck by a squall in Foveaux…

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Shocking Railway Accident at Bathurat. BATHURST

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2

A frightful railway accident happened here this evening, resulting in the death of three passengers, in addition to which several persons were seriously hurt. At…

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Painful Accidents

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Earnest Evans, a carpenter in the employ of Mr. Allerdice, met with a rather painful accident on Tuesday evening last, at Mittagong. It appears that…

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Accidents

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 3

TWO accidents have occurred during the week, and the patients have been admitted to the hospital. Edward Lenehan, received a fall in Moss Vale, which resulted in a…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 July 1890 · page 2

MR. JOHN HOWIE, who the other day sescured the contract or one of the sections in Oxley street, met with a painful accident at the stone quarry on Monday morning. He…

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Appalling Railway Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 July 1890 · page 4

THE worst railroad accident we have had in this State for many years past, says the Herald's San Francisco correspondent, occurred in Oakland, on the opposite side of…

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Quarry Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon last, between two and three o'clock, an accident happened at Eager's quarry, on the Gib, whereby one of the men named Deane received a contused and lacerated…

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Accident at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 2

Mr. J. HIGGINS, of Mittagong, met with a distressing accident on Friday last. He had been cutting wood, and was in the act of pulling a piece out of the heap when it struck him in the…

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Accident to Mr. Corderoy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

MR. S. CORDEROY,of kangaloon, met with a very painful accident on Wednesday afternoon last. In company with a friend he was proceeding home from Bowral. His…

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Another Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 July 1890 · page 2

Another severe aocident happened on Saturday night last. One of the men, McGoon by name, employed at the siding at the northern end of the tunnel was returning…

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