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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1873

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Fatal Mining Accident at Hill End

Evening News · Tuesday 21 October 1873 · page 3

AN inquest was held last Friday upon the body of William Langman, a miner, at Hill End. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was working in the shaft of Peaton and Holmans mind…

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Fatal Mining Accident at Hill End

Empire · Wednesday 22 October 1873 · page 3

AN inquest wen held last Friday upon the body of William Langman, a miner, at Hill End. From the evidence, it appeared that the deceased was working in the shaft of Paxton and Holmans mine,…

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Coroner's Court This day. Accidental Death

Evening News · Thursday 23 October 1873 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Warwick Castle Hotel, Balmain, at 9 o'clock this morning, touching the death of William Trimmell Ritchard aged 70 years lying dead at the residence of his father…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 October 1873 · page 6

A fearful railway collision happened by which three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured —some it is feared fatally. The accident—if it can be so called, for a due attention to the regulations would in all…

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Frightful Accident!

Sydney Punch · Friday 24 October 1873 · page 9

TREMENDOUS excitement was caused in Dash blank the other day by a most appalling accident that cast a gloom over the whole township. Twenty young men, the flower of the youth of Dashblank, were seated beneath a tent. They were in the prime of manhood, blessed…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 25 October 1873 · page 2

A second inquest was held at quarter to 12 o'clock, at the Observer Tavern, George street north, on the body of a man named John Morris, lately a seaman on board the schooner Southern Cross, and whose dead…

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Found Drowned

Empire · Monday 27 October 1873 · page 2

A second inquest was held at quarter to 12 o'clook, at the Observer Tavern, George-street north, on the body of a man named John Morris, lately a seaman on boardthe schooner Southern Cross, and whose dead…

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Telegrams This Day Bathurst Circuit Court. the Orange Road Murder. Bazaar at Bathurst. Murder at Gundagai. Serious Accident to Mr. Goyder. Bathurst

Evening News · Monday 27 October 1873 · page 2

We had a beautiful rain yesterday, but mors is needed. In the matter of the application of Mr. Buchanan; to have the venue of Jervis's trial…

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An Excursion Train Cut in Two. Three Persons Killed and Forty Injured

Empire · Tuesday 28 October 1873 · page 3

ANOTHER fearful railway collision happened this morning, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured—it is feares fatally The accident—if it can so be called, for a due attention…

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Dreadful Accident at Cootamundry

Evening News · Tuesday 28 October 1873 · page 3

One of those accidents, which is a moment carry grief and desolation into a family, and throw a gloom over a whole neighbourhood, occurred a few days ago at Cootamundry. From the information at present to…

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Alexandra Palace Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 3

The discovery of the remains of Mrs. Constable and Mrs. Everett in the Aleandra Park has create, it may readily be imagined, much const[?]rnation, not only in the neighbourhood of the park itself, but in that…

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The Late Fatal Accident by Lightning at Adelong

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 3
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THE Adelong Times gives the following particulars of the melancholy death of William Chapman by lightning: The poor fellow in slaughterman to Ashworth and Clyde, batchers, and was also employed in the…

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Telegrams This Day Immense Yield of Gold Bathurst Assizes. the Rev. Dr. Lang and the Bishop of Melbourne. Gun Accident at Dry Creek. Payment of Members. Adelaide Wheat Market. Release of Bellamy Brisbane. Bathurst

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 2

On the court opening yesterday morning, Mr. Buchanan's affidavits in Support of his application to shift the venue of Jervis' trial to Sydney, were put in and read. Dr. Seth…

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Fatal Accident at Redfern

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 2

About half-past 9 o'clock this morning, a fatal accident occurred to William Norton, a plasterer by trade, a resident of Redfern. Deceased was engaged in sinking a receptacle for a water tank when the sand caved in,…

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An Excursion Train Out in Two. Three Persons Killed and Forty Injured

Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1873 · page 3

ANOTHER fearful railway collision happened this morning, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured—it is feared fatally. The accident—if it can so be called, for a due attention…

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COOTAMUNDRY. Dreadful and Fatal Accident to Miss Mary Hammond. October 24

Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1873 · page 3

ONE of the most painful calamities that has ever befallen this community, occurred at the residence of Mr. Hammond, of Spring Gap, on Tuesday, the 21st instant. It appears that in one of the rooms, two guns, one of which was lended were…

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Two Children Accidentally Poisoned by Their Mother. (From the Launceston Examiner.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 October 1873 · page 6

ON Tuesday morning last, 14th instant, a painful sensation was created in town by a rumour which gained curroney, to the effect that a woman named Elliott, wife of a labourer residing in Lower York-street, had poisoned two…

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Fatal Accident at Redfern

Empire · Thursday 30 October 1873 · page 2

ABOUT half-past 9 o'clock yesterday, a fatal accident occurred to William Norton, a plasterer by trade, a resident of Redfern Deceased was engaged in sinking a receptacle for a water tank when the sand caved in,…

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Boy Drowned in a Well at Ryde

Evening News · Friday 31 October 1873 · page 2

ABOUT 9 o'clock on Friday morning, a child named Alfred Anderson was drowned in a well. He must have been in the well half an hour before he was got out by Constable Samuel who, with several other…

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