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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accident to a Goods Train

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 2

AN accident happened on Tuesday night about eight o'clock to a goods express running from Goulbura to Harden. On nearing the siggnals at the Yass station, three trucks became derailed, the engine…

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Railway Accident at Mittagong. Truly Heartrending

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 November 1891 · page 2

OUR readers will regret to hear that Mr. J. T. Crook, well known in Goulburn, where he has at times resided off and on for years, met with a fatal accident about…

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Collision with a Whale—A Novel Incident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 3

A NOVEL and exciting incident occurred on the voyage of the steamer Titus, from Melbourne to Newcastle. The Titus returned to Melbourne on Saturday morning, when the chief officer,…

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Railway Accident at Moss Vale. Four Men Badly Injured. and Brought to the Cottage Hospital

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

JUST before we were going to press we received news of a serious railway accident at Moss Vale. A ballast train left the line, and four men, an engine driver, stoker,…

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A Sad Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

We regret being compelled to record a sad accident which occurred to a member of an old Bowral family. It appears that the youngest son, Arthur of the Hon. P. L. C…

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The Moss Vale Railway Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 December 1891 · page 2

The accident at Moss Vale was not so serious as was at first thought. Three of the injured men have been discharged from the hospital. The remaining patient,…

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