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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1854

14 stories in Sydney's papers

The Accident to the Matilda Wattenbach

Empire · Monday 27 March 1854 · page 2

We have seen a letter, written from Lisbon, giving an account of the disaster which happened to the Matlida Wattenbach. The writer of the letter, a passenger on board the vessel, states that she was dismasted [?]…

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The Late Snow Storm. (From the European Times, January 14.) Fatal Railway Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1854 · page 5

ONE of the results of the late excessive fall of snow has been a collision between two trains on the Eastern Counties Railway, and which has been attended with the loss of four lives, and injuries to several of the…

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The Late Gun Accident. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1854 · page 5

SIR,—Having read in your paper of yesterday respecting the accident which happened to Mr. Spencer, late of the Theatre Royal, and finding my name mixed up in the matter, I beg leave to correct the statement made…

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Accident to the Great Britain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 July 1854 · page 4
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

BY information received from a passenger, we are enabled to lay before our readers an accurate account of the cause of the return of this vessel to port on Sunday last. The Great Britain sailed from Liverpool at noon on Saturday…

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Preventible Accidents. (From Household Words.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 August 1854 · page 8

I AM, if you please, a bricklayer, and was at work the other day on the foundations of a house lately pulled down. Next door tumbled over me, and I Avas drawn half dead out of the ruins…

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Street Accidents. (To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 August 1854 · page 8

SIR,—The accidents frequently occuring from horses attached to vehicles running through the streets is easily obviated. Every driver of a pair wheel cart, or dray, should be compelled on leaving his vehicle to attach the reins to the spoke of the wheel,…

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Terrible Railway Accident in America. — Upwards of Thirty Lives Lost

Empire · Wednesday 11 October 1854 · page 3

BALTIMORE, July 5th. — An awful accident occured yesterday, about half-past five in the afternoon, on the Susquehanna road, about nine miles from this city, near the relay…

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The Collision Between the Ships Trade Wind and Olympus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 October 1854 · page 6

THE following details of the fatal collision between the ships Trade Wind and Olympus are extracted from the New York Herald:— "On the night of the 20th June, at about eleven…

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The Late Fatal Accident in Bligh-street

Empire · Wednesday 29 November 1854 · page 6

Yesterday a coroner's inquest was held before J. R. Brenan, Esq., and a highly respectable jury, touching the circumstances attending the lamented death of Miss Pheche Ann Dean, aged 17 years, the…

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Fatal Accident to Miss Dean

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 2 December 1854 · page 5

On Tuesday last an inquest was held before J. R. Brenan, Esq., coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the private residence of Mr. Dean, auctioneer, George-street, on the body of his daughter, Miss Phoebe Ann Dean, aged 17 years The young lady was…

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By Express. Fatal Collision at Ballaarat. Monday, 3 a.m

Empire · Saturday 9 December 1854 · page 3

At the above hour a gentleman arrived at this office who had ridden through express, leaving Ballaarat at half-past one yesterday. He brings us the following…

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Fatal Collision at Ballaarat. Monday, December 4th, 3 a.m

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1854 · page 2

At the above hour a gentleman arrived at this office who had ridden through express, leaving Ballaarat at half-past one yesterday. He brings us the following disastrous report:—…

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The Late Accident in Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1854 · page 4

A most diabolical outrage has been attempted, and in part perpetrated, in Ireland. On Friday week a large body of Protestants went in an excursion train from Enniskillen to Deny, to…

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