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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

11 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Bicycle Accidents

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 2

THE Rev. J. Penman met with a rather painfull accident on Tuesday morning last. It seems that her in company with four others—viz.; Messrs. G. C…

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Drowning

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 3

When a person, apparently drowned, is taken out of the water, his lungs have water in them and his throat is stopped with water and muscus. Turn him on…

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Railway Accident at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 4

ABOUT 11 o'clock on Saturday night last Mr. James Alt, stationmaster at Hill Top for the past 14 years, was found on the railway line near Mittagong platform, with both legs injured, apparently from b[?]ing…

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Accident to a Boy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 4

ARTHUR DYER, aged 14 years, whose parents reside at Kareela (or Cable's Siding), met with a painful accident yesterday (Tuesday) morning. He was spending his midwinter holidays at Mr…

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Injured, But Not Murdered

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 3

Mr. Curran, the celebrated Irish advocate, was walking one day with a friend, who was extremely punctilious in his conversation…

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Sad Poisoning Fatality at Bowral. The: Inquest

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 2

THE district coroner Mr. A. D. Badgery J.P., conducted an inquiry at Rice's Commercial. Hotel on Wednesday afternoon, touching the death the previous evening…

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Fatal Accident to a Boy. Crushed Between Trachyte Blocks. Warning to Parents, Children, and Tourists. Coroner's Inquest

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 September 1897 · page 4

THE District Coroner, Mr. A. D. Badgery, J.P., conduated an inquiry at the B. D. Bottage Hospital on Monday morning touching the death of James Henry Horne, a boy of 9 years of ago, who was…

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Fatal Boating Accident at Kiama. Two Men Drowned. Two Others Rescued by a Lifeboat. Mr. a Prott, of Mittagong, One of the Rescued

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 4

MR. ANDREW PROTT, Postmaster at Mittagong, who we believe was spending his holidays at Kiama, had a thrilling experience on Friday afternoon. He and four other gentlemen went out on a 22 foot…

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Accident to Mr. John Taylor

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 November 1897 · page 3

AN accident of a serious character happened to Mr. John Taylor, painter, on Wednesday morning about half-past 11 o'clock, while he was at work on a ladder at Mr. H. Taylor's Commercial Hotel, Moss…

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Secrets of the Harem. Drowning Discarded Lad[?]

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 December 1897 · page 2

In the Bosphorus, flowing dark, deep, and swift from the Black Sea past the gilded minarets of Constantinople, there is one dread ribbon through its entire length known as the…

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Gun Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 December 1897 · page 4

A PAINFUL gun accident occurred on the Mittagong range, about three miles from Bowral, on Saturday afternoon last. Mr. Harry Trevathan,. of Bowral, went out…

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