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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1870

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Collision Between the Police and Civilians, in Cork

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 6

About four o'clock on Wednesday morning, it being expected that some of the Fenian prisoners recently liberated in Australia, and who arrived a few days since in…

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The Floods. the Drowning of the Gouldings at Shoalhaven

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1870 · page 3

A BRIEF account of this sad disaster appeared in the Herald a few days ago, and we now give fuller particulars from the Shoalhaven News of Thursday last. It will be seen that heroic efforts were made by several to save life,…

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The Drowning of the Gouldings at Shoalhaven

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 6

A BRIEF account of this sad disaster appeared in the Herald a few days ago, and we now give fuller particulars from the Shoalhaven News of Thursday last. It will be seen that heroic efforts were made by several to save life,…

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Death From Injuries Accidentally Received by a Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 7

THE City Coroner held an inquiry at the Cottage of Content Hotel, Waterloo, touching the death of a woman named Charlotte Bayston. Timothy Bayston deposed that he was a storekeeper, and resided at Pitt-street, Waterloo;…

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Fatal Collision in the Channel

Empire · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3
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A DREADFUL collision occurred in the Channel at an early hour this morning, which has caused a sad loss of life. It appears that the paddle-wheel steamship Normandy, ono of the South-Western Company's…

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The Collision Between the Bombay and Oneida

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

The following letter appears in the New York Times of the 13th March:—"To the Editor of the New York Times.—The fate of the Oneida has naturally thrilled the community with horror and unspeakable reprobation of the…

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Events of the Collision Between the Normandy and Mary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

St. Helier's, Friday night.—" This town, and indeed the whole island, has been in a state of the most intense excitement to-day, consequent on the report received late last night of the total loss of the mail packet Normandy. The…

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Accidents and Offences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1870 · page 3

Five persons have been suffocated at Hull—a man, his wife, and three children. The man was the captain of the keel Sarah, of Goole, and had been taking in gas water at Hall. The fumes from the gas water proved fatal to the…

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Full Particulars of the Loss of the Steamer Oneida. 120 Persons Drowned. the Corvette Sunk by the Iron Steamer Bombay

Evening News · Tuesday 17 May 1870 · page 2

By the barque Benefactress, at San Francisco, we have particulars of the loss of the U.S. steamer Oneida. The following is taken from the Japan Gazette of the 29th January:—…

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Persons Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1870 · page 8

The deaths by drowing as yet known in connection with these floods are as follows:—Mrs. Ryan and four children, and Mrs. Greenwood, at Denman, a boy named Menaghue, at Raymond Terrace; Mr. George Standen,…

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Fatal Collision in the Channel

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 22

A DREADFUL collision occurred in the Channel at an early hour this morning, which has caused a sad loss of life. It appears that the paddle-wheel steamship Normandy, one of the South-Western Company's…

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The Collision Between the Bombay and Oneida

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 6

The following letter appears in the New York Times of the 13th March:—"To the Editor of the New York Times.—The fate of the Oneida has naturally thrilled the community with horror and unspeakable reprobation of the…

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Accidents and Offences

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 7

Five persons have been suffocated at Hull—a man, his wife, and three children. The man was the captain of the keel Sarah, of Goole, and bad been taking in gas water at Hull. The fumes from the gas water proved fatal to the…

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Fatal Collision. Collision Between the [?]Neida and Bombay, Near Yokohama

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 10

THE collision between the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Bombay (Captain Eyre) and the United States steam corvette Oneida (Captain Williams), on the 24th January, on the Japanese waters, about fifteen miles…

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Railway Collision at Footscray. (From the Melbourne Argus of Wednesday.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 8

SURPRISE and apprehension were excited to a considerable extent by a rumour which was circulated yesterday morning, just as people were setting out on their holiday excursions, to the effect that there had been a…

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Drowning of a Prisoner at Narrabri

Evening News · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Narrabri to the Tamworth Examiner, informs us that the Walgett police, whilst escorting tho prisoners Stokes and Buckley from Walgett to Tamworth, in crossing Narrabri…

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Railroad Accident

Empire · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 4

THE New York papers to hand state that a fearful accident occurred on the 25th ultimo to the regular morning train on the Mississippi Contral Railroad for New Orleans. The train leaving Humboldt…

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Shocking Accident to a Somnambulist

Evening News · Wednesday 15 June 1870 · page 3

JOB EDWARDS, a young man living in Wolverhampton, narrowly escaped death from somnambulism on Tuesday morning. He lived in Temple-street, in that town, and slept in a room on the third storey…

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Shocking Accident to a Somnambulist

Empire · Thursday 16 June 1870 · page 4

JOB EDWARDS, a young man living in Wolverhampton, narrowly escaped death from somnambulism on Tuesday morning. He lived in Temple-street, in that town, and slept in a room on the third storey…

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