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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1845

10 stories in Sydney's papers

Original Correspondence. Street Accidents to Children. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1845 · page 2

GENTLTMEN,—Since I scarcely can peruse one number of your journal without seeing an accident recorded of a child having been killed of maimed by being ridden or driven over; and…

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Dreadful Accident at Drurylane Theatre. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1845 · page 5

ON Saturday night, December 14, a frightful occurrence took place at this theatre, during the performance of the Revolt of the Harem, which in its consequences will, it is feared,…

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Dreadful Steam-boat Collision. (From the Times, December 18.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1845 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon the utmost sensation was created along the water-side, and at the various steam-boat piers along the river, in consequence of one of those unfortunate collisions…

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Railway Accidents

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1845 · page 4

The collision between Beeston and Nottingham appears to have occurred entirely from the want of sufficient power actually to work the line. A tender gets off the line of the up-rails, bending arid…

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Accident to Mr. Wakeley

Commercial Journal and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 July 1845 · page 4

We have the evidence of that great physiologist Mrs. Mala prop, that in the East figures are very unmanageable, when she observed that some one is 'as headstrong…

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Appalling Accident. Wreck of the Ship Cataraqui, From Liver Pool, and Loss of Four Hundred and Fourteen, Lives. From the Melbourne Papers. Narrative of Mr. Guthrie, Chief Officer of the Cataraqui. (From the Port Phillip Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 2

THE Cataragui, Captain C. W. Finlay, sailed from Liverpool on the 20th April, with 369 emigrants, and a crew, including two doctors, Mr. C. Carpenter and Edward Carpenter (two…

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Appalling Accident. Wreck of the Ship Cataraqui, From Liverpool, and Loss of Four Hundred and Fourteen Lives. From the Melbourne Papers. Narrative of Mr. Guthrie, Chief Officer of the Cataraqui

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 244

The Cataraqui, Captain C. W. Finlay, sailed from Liverpool on the 20th April, with 369 emigrants, and a crew, including two doctors, Mr. C. Carpenter and Edward Carpenter (two…

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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle Has Again Stayed Out Late. Mrs. Caudle, at First Injured and Indignant, Melts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1845 · page 3

PERHAPS, MR. CAUDLE, you'll tell me where this is to end! Though, goodness known, I needn't ask that. The end is plain enough. Out—out—out! Every night—every night!…

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Dreadful Collision of Steamers Awful Shipwreck, and Loss of 135 Lives

The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1845 · page 4

On the night of the 11 July, on the Black Sea, about forty miles cast of the Bosphorus, two Turkish steamers, the Scutari, commanded by Mr. Dubbing, and the Medjehrai Tidjahret, commanded by Mr…

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Dreadful Collision of Steamers-- Awful Shipwreck, and Loss of 135 Lives

The Star · Saturday 13 December 1845 · page 4

On the night of the 11 July,, on the Black Sea, about forty miles east of the Bosphorus, two Turkish steamers, the Scutari, commanded by Mr. Dubbing, and the Medjehrai Tidjahret, commanded by Mr…

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