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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1852

9 stories in Sydney's papers

Distressing Colliery Accident—loss of Four Lives

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 January 1852 · page 5

H. Fazakerley, Esq., the youthful proprietor of the extensive Gillibrand-hall and Fazakerley estates, with a friend on a visit to him, and two watermen, met with a…

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Accidents at Sea

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 12 June 1852 · page 156

A VERY interesting return to an order of the House of Commons has been made by the management of Loyd's. We find in an abstract of all collisions, accidents, and wrecks…

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Accidents at Sea. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1852 · page 4

A VERY interesting return to an order of the House of Commons has been made by the management of Lloyd's. We find in an abstract of all collisions, accidents, and wrecks…

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Original Correspondence. Accidents. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 25 June 1852 · page 3

SIR—Without waiting the result of the inquest of that poor lad, who was killed through negligence last evening, in the building opposite Hunter-street, 1 take the liberty of troubling…

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Destruction of Gundagai. Sixty-three Persons Drowned

Empire · Saturday 3 July 1852 · page 2

THE terrible particulars contained in the following letter, received this morning, from our agent, at Yass, may be fully relied upon…

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Destruction of Gundagai. Sixty-three Persons Drowned

Empire · Monday 5 July 1852 · page 2

THE terrible particulars contained in the following letter, received this morning, from our agent, at Yass, may be fully relied upon…

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The Empire. Tuesday, July 6, 1852. the Drowning of Gundagai

Empire · Tuesday 6 July 1852 · page 2

THE terrible flood which has swept away the town of Gundagai, and drowned sixtyfour of its inhabitants, will be felt as a public calamity far beyond the scene of its…

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Colliery Accidents. (From the Spectator, May 22.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1852 · page 2

A third successive week is marked by a terribly fatal colliery explosion. The number who have perished this time is not far short of the greatest on record. The scene of death…

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Original Correspondence. the Siloe Accident. To the Editors of the Sydney Morniing Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 October 1852 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In order to remove all possibility of the recurrence of a catastrophe similar to that which has just taken place at Cockatoo Island, I beg to offer the following simple…

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