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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1846

25 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Dreadful Collision on the Mersey, and Melancholy Loss of Life

The Citizen · Saturday 7 November 1846 · page 3

This night week one of the most calamitous collisions took place upon the river Mersey, which we have had to record for several years. The vessels which came into collision are two…

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Appalling Accident. (From Blackwood's Magazine.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 7 November 1846 · page 4

Frank Trevelyan and his friend Mr. Vernon Wycherley, fellow-students at Oxford, and the latter somewhat of a poet, are walking together through a strange part of…

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Dreadful Collision—frightful Loss of Life

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 14 November 1846 · page 4

A collision, attended with a frightful loss of life, took place on the river Mersey on Monday night, off the Magazines, at a quarter before eleven, between the iron steamer Sea Nymph, which was leaving…

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Dreadful and Fatal Accident on the North of France Railway. Brussels, Thursday, July 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 November 1846 · page 3

ON Wednesday afternoon, the 8th instant, a most calamitous occurrence, accompanied by a fearful sacrifice of human life, occurred on the Great North of…

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Dreadful Accident in a Mine, Forty Three Men Drowned

The Citizen · Saturday 26 December 1846 · page 5

The most fearful mining calamity ever known in this county occurred yesterday afternoon, at East Wheal Rose lead mine, in the parish of Newlin, eight miles from Truro. A…

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