Dreadful Accident and Loss of Life on the Great Western Railway
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 3
SWINDON, NEAR FARRINGDON, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. — Last evening, as the 4-15 train from Baddington was proceeding on its way, one of the most fearful accidents we have ever had…
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Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1847 · page 4
On Saturday last, a series of accidents, causing detentions of various trains, and, in one instance, at least, attended with most serious consequences, both in personal injuries and in the destruction of…
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The Australian · Tuesday 4 May 1847 · page 3
An accident of a very serious nature occurred to Mr. Geroge Fitz Roy on Saturday forenoon. It appears that Mr. Fitz Roy, when on his return from accompanying His Excellency's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Directions for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, or Dead. Recommended by the Royal Humane Society
Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 19 June 1847 · page 1
CAUTIONSâ1. Lose no time. 2. Avoid all rough usage. 3. Never hold the body up by the feet. 4. Nor roll the body upon casks. 5. Nor rub the body with salt and…
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Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 7 July 1847 · page 3
A collision of a most serious character, involving, it is supposed, the loss of seven lives, happened early on Sunday morning in the river off Old Haven, about ten miles below Tilbury Fort, a schooner of…
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Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1847 · page 1
Mr. Claude Lascelles, son of the Hon. W. Lascelles, was on a visit in December last to his aunt, Lady Dover, at Roehampton. On the 22nd, between eleven and…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 October 1847 · page 3
We alluded briefly to this deplorable occurrence in our issue of the 23th ultimo. The following particulars front the Liverpool Times will be found of melancholy interest:—…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1847 · page 2
IT is this morning our painful duty to record the particular of one of the most distressing accidents that ever occurred in this colony—an accident by which His Excellency the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 December 1847 · page 2
THERE was very little business done in Sydney yesterday, the distressing event of the previous day, the particulars of which were recorded in yesterday's Herald, having absorbed the entire…
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The Sentinel · Thursday 9 December 1847 · page 3
Our reporter, on reaching Parramatta, yesterday' had proceeded but a very few paces on his arrival,from the wharf, when an account met him that his Excellency's carriage had been upset in the Domain,…
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Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 9 December 1847 · page 2
ON Tuesday the whole city was thrown into a state of consternation and alarm by intelligence received from Parramatta that the carriage of his Excellency the Governor had…
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The Sentinel · Thursday 16 December 1847 · page 3
On the 5th inst., a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at Wolverton station, on the London and North-Western Railway, by which seven lives were lost, and a number of persons injured. The down…
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