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Accidents, 1870

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Later From America California. Frightful Railroad Accident. — Twelve Persons Killed and Twenty Wounded. (From the Alta California, November 14.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 7

About 9 o'clock this morning, the regular passenger train of the Western Pacific Railroad, bound East, came in collision with the train from Hayward's, near Damon Station, about four miles from…

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Coroner's Court, This Day The Mysterious Case, of the Young Woman Found Drowned Near Pyrmont Bridge. Adjourned Inquest

Evening News · Tuesday 25 January 1870 · page 3

The inquest upon the body of the young woman, Margaret Boyce, who was found floating iu the water near Pyrmont Bridge, on the morning of Wednesday last was this morning resumed before the City Coroner…

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Coroner's Inquest. The Mysterious Case, of the Young Woman Found Drowned Near Pyrmont Bridge. Adjourned Inquest

Evening News · Wednesday 26 January 1870 · page 2

At the time of our going to press yesterday thin case had not concluded. We now give the remainder of the evidence. Phoe[?] Steel, recalled, and examined by…

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California. Terrible Railway Accident. Fifteen Persons Killed

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 14

AT about half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning information was received in this city by telegraph, and soon after by one of the ferry boars, that a frightful…

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Omnibus Accident in George-street. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1870 · page 3

SIR,—In reference to the above, I beg to inform you that I was a passenger in the "Colonist" bus (from Queen's Wharf to Glebe). I got into it at Market-street, and as soon as I entered the 'bus the driver set off at a furious rate,…

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The Late Mysterious Case of Drowning at Pyrmont. Adjourned Inquest

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 6

The inquest upon the body of the young woman Margaret Boyce. who was found drowned in Darling Harbour on Wednesday week last, was on Tuesday morning resumed at the Observer Tavern, before the…

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Omnibus Accident in George-street. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 5

SIR,—With reference to the letter appertaining to the above, from Mr. Horbert L. Evana, I can fully endorse all as stated by that gentleman. 'Bus accidents on the Brickfield-hill me now of frequent occurrence, owing…

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Drowning in the Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1870 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquiry yesterday morning, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, on the body of a man who was picked cut of the waters of Darling Harbour, at The Commercial Wharf, foot of King-street, by a fruit…

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All But Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 February 1870 · page 3

THE man or woman who has escaped that peculiar form of death which, during summer, often awaits the too venturesome at our watering places, will appreciate the following vivid description of the manner…

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Inquests. Drowning in the Harbour

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 3

THE City Coroner held an inquiry on Tuesday, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, on the [?]ly of a man who was picked out of the waters of Darling Harbour, at the Commercial Wharf, foot of King street, by a fruit…

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Fearful Accident.—two Deaths From the Explosion of Spirits

Evening News · Wednesday 16 February 1870 · page 2
Also in Empire

The following are fuller particulars of the accident referred to in our telegraphic columns:—The Police Magistrate held an inquiry in the Maitland Hospital, on Saturday, into the circumstances connected with…

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Five Children Drowned

Evening News · Monday 21 February 1870 · page 3

A very sad accident is reported from Sheerness. During the gale the waves dashed into a targe lying off Grain Spit with such fury as to put out the cabin fire, and endanger the sinking of the barge…

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A Man Drowned by a Dog

Evening News · Monday 21 February 1870 · page 3

An extraordinary death by drowning occurred in the River Mersey on December 7. Thomas Bellis, a young man residing at Tranmere, was in a small boat, in company with Samuel Jones, male of the…

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Railway Accident at the Zigzag

Evening News · Monday 21 February 1870 · page 3
Also in Empire

An accident occurred on Saturday night by the [?]of the engine of the 6 p.m. train from sydney into a bank on the Lithgow Zigzag, on the [?] Western Railway, by which the fireman, a…

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Frightful Accident at the Bristol Theatre. Eighteen Persons Crushed to Death

Evening News · Wednesday 23 February 1870 · page 3

The circumstances under which eighteen persons were suffocated or crushed to death on Monday evening at Bristol, appear to have been as follows:—On Boxing-day, as early as 5 in the…

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Accident on the Lithgow Valley Zigzag

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 February 1870 · page 6

THE 5 p.m. train from Sydney on Saturday, 19th instant, with a number of passengers, left the Mount Victoria station about fifty minutes late. The delay is said to have been occasioned by various circumstances, among…

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Railway Accident

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 5

ACCIDENT ON THE LITHGOW VALLEY ZIGZAG.—About a quarter to 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, a telegram was received by Mr. Moody, traffic manager at his residence in Botany Road. It intimated that a railway accident had…

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Railway Accident at the Zigzag

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 7

An accident occurred on Saturday night "by the running of the ongino of the 5 p.m. train from Sydney into a hank on the Lithgow Zigzag, on the Great "Western Railway, by which the fireman, a…

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