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Accidents, 1874

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Another Shocking Railway Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 21

YESTERDAY (Friday) afternoon, about half-past 5 o'clock, there was another accident on the Great Northern Railway line, at Newcastle. A man named James Fuller, in the employ of Messrs…

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Accident at the Races

Evening News · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 2

On Saturday morning, a little boy, James Davis, selling race cards at the entrance to the Randwick course, met with a severe accident. He was running after an omnibus going towards the entrance gates…

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Dreadful Railway Accident. London, September 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 5

A terrible, collision has occurred on the Great Eastern-Railway-line, by which nineteen persons were killed and thirty injured…

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Telegrams This Day. Later English News Per Mail Steamer Alexandra Via Tohees Straits. Disraeli Announces England's Intention to Annex Fiji. Prince of the Asturias to Be King of Spain. £15,000 a Year Granted to Prince Leopold. P. AND O. Company Bargaining to Use Suez Canal. Dreadful Railway Collision.— Nineteen Killed.—thirteen Injured. English Shipping for Australia. Wool Market Firm and Active. English Markets, &c, &C. Cable Message [Reuter's Special Telegram.] London, via Singapore, September 12

Evening News · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 2

Received in Sydney, September 12,6.8 p.m. The Ministerial journals of Berlin state that the incident at Gutaria, when the Carlists fired upon a German gunboat, which replied by sending…

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Coroner's Court Death from Drowning

Evening News · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 3

AN inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, on the body of a man found drowned, in Darling Habour. on Sunday morning Martin Wingert deposed: He…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 16 September 1874 · page 3

The adjourned, inquest, on the body of Wm. F. Schweble, found drowned in Darling Harbour on Sunday morning last, was held at 9 o'clock this morning, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George…

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Another Fatal Mining Accident

Evening News · Friday 18 September 1874 · page 3

A FATAL accident occurred in the mine of the Shamrock Company on Saturday, the victim being a man named James Donnelly. Although the immediate cause of the accident is not known. It is thought…

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Another Steamboat Accident

Evening News · Friday 18 September 1874 · page 2

As the Manly Beach steamer, Royal Alfred, was coming up the harbour, this morning, with her own and the Kembla's passengers, the small steamer, Sir Charles Cowper, was met near Pinchgut, in distress…

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Death by Drowning in the Harbuor

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquiry on Saturday morning, last at the Observer Tavern, George-street north, into the circumstances of the death of George Brittain, a fireman on board the…

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Dreadful Railway Accident. London, September 11

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 372

A terrible collision has occurred on the Great Eastern Railway line, by which nineteen persons were killed and thirty injured…

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Law. Vice-admiralty Court.—saturday. (Before Sir James Martin, Judge Commissary.) the Sierra Nevada (Barque) in Re Collision with George H. Peake (Brig)

Empire · Monday 21 September 1874 · page 3

This was a suit to recover damages for a collision between the above vessels, off the port of newcastle. It was instituted by Mr. James Frederick Lloyd, of Melbourne, the owner of the…

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Vice-admiralty Court.—monday. (Before Sir James Martin, Judge Commissary.) the Barque Sierra Nevada in Collision with the Brig George H. PEAKE

Empire · Tuesday 22 September 1874 · page 4

The evidence in this action, to recover damages for a collision between the above vessels, off the port of Newcastle, was resumed, and did not conclude…

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News of the Day. Serious Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 22 September 1874 · page 2

A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon to a boy, about fourteen years of age, named William Bennett, whose parents live in Bay street, Glebe. The little fellow arrived during the day from the Clyde…

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Strange Case of Drowning in the Yarra

Evening News · Wednesday 23 September 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

It was supposed by the police, yesterday, that the man whose body was found in the Yarra above Prince's-bridge on Thursday had been murdered, in consequence of the hands and feet Leing tied…

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Another Fearful Collision Off Dungeness

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 4

Information has been received of another collision off Dungeness, not far from the spot where the illfated Northfleet went down, and which, although happily not attended with such an appalling loss of…

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Disastrous Collision of Two Steamers in the Red Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 6

THE Malta correspondent of the Times of India sends the following account of a serious collision between two steamers in the Red Sea:—The stesmship Wyberton, 1500 tons burden, left Rotterdam, via Southampton, on the 21st of June, bound for Java, carrying no…

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Vice-admiraly Court.—friday. (Before his Honor Sir James Martin, C.J., Judge Commissary.) the Sierra Nevada in Collision with the Brig George H Peake

Empire · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 3

The evidence in this suit for damages by the collision of both the above vessels off the por of Newcastle, was resumed from last Tuesday, and did not terminate when the Court rose…

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Telegrams This Day. Victorian Railway Extensions. Latest Prom Batavia. Advance in Sugars. Markets. Preparations for Hospital Sunday. Yass Pastoral Association. Fatal Mixing Accident. Grafton Regatta. Opening the Melbourne Public Library and Museum Os Sundays. Grant of Money to Giles the Explorer. Railway From Adelaide to the Victorian Border. &c, &c, &c. YASS

Evening News · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 2

A meeting of the Vass Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held to-day. The election for officers resulted in Dr. Campbell being chosen president, Messrs. J. Ramsay and C. Massy…

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Fatal Collision Off Dungeness

Evening News · Monday 28 September 1874 · page 3

Information has been received of another collision off Dungeness, not far from the spot where the ill-fated Northfleet went down. The vessels in question were the Millbank, of Sunderland, a…

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