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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1869

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Fatal Boat Accidents. Capsizing of the Post Office Boat

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 6

ABOUT noon on the 9th instant, a Government boat, with a crew of four men, went down the harbour with the supple-mentary English mail, in charge of two employe's of the General Poet Office, For the purpose of putting it on board…

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Accident to the Branch Mail Steamer Balclutha

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 29 September 1869 · page 3

THE A.S.N. Company's steamer Balclutha, while conveying the South Australian mails to King George's Sound, met with a serious disaster, which, had it not been for the "pluck" of her commander, Captain Grainger, and the efforts of his crew, must…

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Fearful Colliery Accident in Saxony

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 5

DRESDEN, August 4.—Early on Monday i morning last intelligence was received here that at a short distance from the city upwards of four hundred men had fallen victims to a terrifice colliery accident. At first it was hoped…

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Evils Accidental and Evils Essential

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 10

THESE is one common source of all moral, faults in the world the radical and thorough depravity originated by the Fall. Of this no sensible man can…

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Frightful Railway Accident

Empire · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 3

Another terrible accident, occurred on the Erie Railway, at Mast Hope station, thirty-miles from port Jervis, on July 14, by which some ten or fifteen human beings were suddenly crushed, bruised, mang[?]ed, and…

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Deplorable Case of Drowning. (From Our Dubbo Correspondent.)

Empire · Monday 4 October 1869 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon a young woman named Amelia Scapens, aged between eighteen and nineteen years, met with an untimely death in the river Macquarie. She went, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Osborne, to…

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Accidental Death of an American Yachtsman

Empire · Monday 4 October 1869 · page 4

An inquest was held on August 10, at Ryde, before Mr. Blake, the coroner for the [?] of Wight on the body of Mr. Cornelius Grinnell, an American yachtsman, of New York, who had come to England for the…

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Fearful Colliery Accident in Saxony

Sydney Mail · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 6

DRESDEN, August 4.— Early on Monday morning last intelligence received here that at a short distance from the city upwards of four hundred men had fallen victims to a terrific colliery accident. At first it was hoped…

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Frightful Railway Accident

Empire · Tuesday 19 October 1869 · page 4

The excusionists injured in the late terrible railroad accident on the Kansas Pacific railroad arrived in St. Louis on Saturday, en route for their homes in Cleveland, Indianapolis, &c., and left as soon as the co[?]es…

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Terrible Colliery Accident in America. Two Hundred and Two Lives Lost. Philadelphia, September 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1869 · page 5

A dreadful calamity occurred on Monday at Plymouth, in Pennsylvania, in the coal region of Avondale. The colliery had not been in use for some time on account of the labourers being on strike, but they…

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Terrible Colliery Accident in America. Two Hundred and Two Lives Lost. Philadelphia, September 8

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 2

A dreadful calamity occurred on Monday at Plymouth, in Pennsylvania, in the coal region of Avondale. The colliery had not been in use for some time on account of the labourers being on strike, but they…

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Railway Accidents. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 November 1869 · page 3

SIR,—I observe in your issue of this day's date, that the Secretory for Public Works, Mr. Sutherland, in answer to a question by Mr. Byrnes, stated, in his place in Parliament that three accidents of a trifling nature occurred…

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Terrible Colliery Accident in America, Phildelphia, September 8

Empire · Wednesday 3 November 1869 · page 4

A dreadful calamity occurred on Monday at Plymouth, ia Pennsylvania, in the coal region of Avondale. The colliery had not been in use for some time on accout of the labourers being on strike, but they…

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Murder of Three White Men —250 Natives Drowned

Empire · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 3

The Mary Anne Christina arrived in Levuka har bour on Thursday, from the Line Islands, and Captain Field brings the sad news of the massere, by the natives, of the captain and first mate of the French…

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A Strange Case of Drowning From the Steamship Tamar. (From the Cornwall Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 November 1869 · page 6

A MELANCHGLY loss of a life sccurred on the last trip of the Tamar steamship from Melbourne to Launceston. The vessel had passed theo pilot vessel off Queenscliff, when Captain Saunders was startled by the cry of " a woman and…

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Death of Mr Frank M Culloch. Captain Airey Seriously Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 7 December 1869 · page 3

On Tuesday last a rumour was current in Dubbo that Mr. Frank M'Culloch, J P., of Colsne, Duck Creek (son of Mr. A. H M'Culloch, solicitor, of Sydney) had been killed on Saturday, while out…

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Melancholy and Fatal Accident

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 10

On Tuesday last a rumour was current in Dubbo that Mr. Frank M'Culloch; J.P., of Colane, Duck Creek (son of Mr. A. H. M'Culloch, solicitor, of Sydney) had been…

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Fatal Accident on the Great Southern Railway

Empire · Monday 13 December 1869 · page 4

On Thursday Dr. Waugh held an inquest at the Terminis Hotel, Mnrowollon, on the body of Eliza Davis, aged fifty-five, wife of James Davis, labourer, who was killed by the railway train on the day…

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Collision at Sydney Heads. Total Wreck of the Prince Patrick Schooner

Evening News · Friday 17 December 1869 · page 2

Thk reports of new burglaries, distinguished is'; well, by the clever and professional style in which they have been effected as by the meroileea violence reeerted to by the burglars when their pursuit of wealth has been interrupted, have-now become a prominent feature in the Sydney newspapers. In many homes, probably, harassing -alarm has been…

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Attempted Murder in Victoria. Accidental Death of the Assailant

Evening News · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 2

Dr. Mackay. the district coroner, held an inquest at Preston Vale en the 11th instant, on the body of a man, name unknown, who met his death under somewhat singular circumstances. The following evidence,…

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