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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Distressing Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

AT about ten o'clock on Sunday morning a very painful and distressing accident befel to Miss Florence Sarah Charker, daughter of Mr. W. Charker, of the Imperial Hotel…

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Boating Fatality. Sydney, Friday 3 p.m

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 4

A sad boating fatality occurred last night Botany Bay; when four men named william Goldsmith James Pemmment Thos. Robinson Timothy Brennen were drowned and two other men named…

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Railway Accident near Wages

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 7

A serious accident happened to the Melbourne express from sydney on Wednesday morning between Bomen and the [?] vinduct During the night a [?]…

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The Melbourne Tunnel Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 3

The scene of the sewerage calamity at Spottiewoode, Melbourne, was visited on Tuesday by hundreds of people. The spot where the break in the river bed happened…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 May 1895 · page 4

ON Saturday last an accident, which might have had a fatal termination but for the prompt and courageous conduct of an old man, occurred near Mrs. Frost's…

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Poetry ACCIDENTS

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 May 1895 · page 6

A vision seen by Plato the divine; Two shuddering souls came forward, waiting doom. From Rhadamanthus in the nether…

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Collision in Bong Bong Street

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 June 1895 · page 3

SHORTLY before six o'clock last evening a collision between a double-seated buggy and a sulky took place in Bong Bongstreet, directly opposite Comer's stables…

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Mining Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

A terrible fatality occurred at tho South mine, Broken-hill on Thursday afternoon, by which eight men wore killed and two injured Tho accident was cause by the…

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Local and District Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 August 1895 · page 4

A young man, named D. Bresnahan in the service of Mr. F.H. Throsby, sustained several severe injuries on Wednesday last by being thrown…

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Fatal Accident at Wyalong

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 August 1895 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred on Friday evening, the first on the field, to a miner named Bevan, who was working on the Hilltop claim on the Democratic line. Just…

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Claims in the Redfern Railway Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 September 1895 · page 7

The cases in which damages were claimed against the Railway Commissioners for injuries and loss caused by the Redfern railway accident were completed on Monday. In the…

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Singular Railway Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 September 1895 · page 2

A sensational railway accident happened near Rosebery, on the line between Warracknabeal and Hopetoun (Vic.), late on Saturday night. When nearing…

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Local and District Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 September 1895 · page 4

A serious accident befel two of the men working at the Electric Lighting Company's shed employed by Mr. Goodman, on…

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Inquest. the Crushers Accident Terminates Fatally

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 2

THE District Coroner (Mr. A. D. Badgery J.P.) held an inquest on Monday afternoon at the District Cottage Hospital at Bowral on the body of John Barr, who…

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