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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1867

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Fearful Accident—loss of Three Lives

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 6

One of the saddest accidents that ever occurred in Youghal or its neighbourhood took place on the eve of Corpus Christi, involving the loss of chree lives, and shoeking to think of, the…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 4

Warrington, June 29th.—I have this morning the sad duty of recording one of the most awful railway accidents that has occurred in England for many years past, and which resulted in the…

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Dreadful Accident of the Southern Railway

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 4

EARLY on Thursday morning, 12th instant, intelligence reached Parramatta that a man, named Thomas Williams, had been ran over by the train near Liverpool. Dr. Brown, coroner for the district, proceeded to the scene of the…

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The Late Accident at the Zigzag

Illustrated Sydney News · Monday 16 September 1867 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the Bathurst Free Press gives the full particulars of the above dreadful occurrence. Between the hours of four and six o'clock on the…

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Collision Off Cork Harbour—five Lives Lost

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 September 1867 · page 5

Early on Wednesday morning a fearful collision occurred between a fishing smack and a homeward bound American steamer, the Nebraska, off this harbour which resulted is the running…

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Singular Recovery of a Drowned Body. (From the Indiana Ledger, May 24.)

Empire · Tuesday 1 October 1867 · page 6

On Saturday last, about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as Miss Gould and another young lady were attempting to walk a single hewed timber, which reached from one abutment to another of the bridge across Yellow river…

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Disastrous Accident to the Telegraph Steamer

Empire · Friday 11 October 1867 · page 4

We have the following particulars of the disaster to the steamship Telegraph, bound from Sydney to Brisbane, from Captain S. Greer of the steamer Grafton. The Grafton left Port Macquarie for Sydney on…

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Fatal Accidents From the Floods in Gipps Land. (from the Gipps Land Times, October 3.)

Empire · Tuesday 15 October 1867 · page 8

The floods have, we regret to say, been productive of two fatal accidents. On Monday evening Mr. John Campbell, of Glencoe Station, his brother, Archibald Campbell, Mr. Thomas Mallows, an employe of Mr. John…

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Railway Accident at Bray, in Ireland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 October 1867 · page 6

A fearful railway accident occurred at Bray on the 9th August. As the up-train from Enniscorthy due at Bray at 9.30 was proceeding round the head the engine and two carriages got off the line at one of the…

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Terrible Accident on the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 October 1867 · page 2

During the early part of to-day rumours of a very exciting nature prevailed throughout the city, regarding an accident which was stated to have occurred on the line at the dangerous…

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Accidents in the Stable, on the Road, and in the Field. Sprains of Tendon and Ligament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 October 1867 · page 5

BESIDES the injuries we have already described under the terms "curb" and "broken down," there are others of frequent occurrence affecting ligaments and tendons in various parts of the body. The fibrous…

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Mr. Punch's Midnight Dream. Accidentally Daguerreotyped by Candle-light

Sydney Punch · Saturday 2 November 1867 · page 8

Obscure and nebulous—cannot get at the world's heart—it is covered, without, with that vulgar prosperity with which always retrogrades barberism-ward. See the covering, or anti-covering, or both, or either, or neither, of the fashionable Eves of England. The…

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Alpine Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1867 · page 3

" WHO repeats in tones of sorrow the names of friend or relative that has perished among the solitudes of the Higher Alps? The Junfrau's spotless snow, the crested summit of the Wetterhorn, Monte Rasa's…

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Accidents to Horses. (From the Field.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 November 1867 · page 3

HORSES' knees are especially liable to injury from falls on the road; very slight causes are sufficient to occasion the accident, and the consequences are often serious and always annoying, if nothing worse than a…

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Alpine Accidents

Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 5

"WHO repeats in tones of sorrow the names of friend or relative that has perished among the solitudes of the Higher Alps? The Junfrau's spotless snow, the crested summit of the Wetterhorn, Monte Rssa's…

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Law and Police. Supreme Court.—thursday. Vice-admiralty Court. Before his Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, C, J., Judge Commissary. the Australasian Steam Navigation Company V. the Queensland Steam Navigation Company—collision Between the Steamships Floebnoe Irving and Lady Young

Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 9

The hearing of this case was resumed and concluded. It had already occupied six days—the 20th of September, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of October, and the 12th and 13th of the present month…

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Fatal Boat Accident at the Heads. Five Persons Drowned

Empire · Tuesday 19 November 1867 · page 4

Intelligence by telegram from the Heads was received yesterday morning that a boat was capsized on Sunday evening off the South Reef, and that five persons were droned. The pilot boats from Watson's Bay…

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Extraordinay Railway Accident

Empire · Tuesday 19 November 1867 · page 2

A disaster,which has now to be reported as a double one, and has resulted already in the deaths of five men besides the slaughter of a considerable number of cattle and sheep, took place on Monday on the Midland…

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Town News. Fatal Boat Accident at the Heads. Five Persons Drowned

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 7

Intelligence by telegram from the Heads was received on Mondy morning that a boat was capsized on Sunday evening off the South Reef, and five persons were drowned. The pilot boats from…

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Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Pilots, &c., Drowned at Sydney Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 December 1867 · page 5

THE following letter, from Lyttelton, New Zealand, addressed to the Hon. Henry Parkes has been forwarded to us for publication. — "Lyttelton, November 20th, 1867…

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