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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1874

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Fatal Collision Off Tee Lizard. (From the Times, October 16.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 December 1874 · page 8

The Cand[?]har, ship, of Liverpool, 1418 tons, own[?]d by T. and R. Br[?]cklebank, Liverpool, bound from London to Melbourne, with a general cargo, put into Falmouth, October 15, making a great deal of water, with loss of…

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Arrival of the Mail Via Torres Straits. Loss of the Ship Kingsbridge From London to Sydney. Captain Symonds, His Wife, Daughter, and Eight of the Crew Drowned

Empire · Wednesday 16 December 1874 · page 3

THE English papers by the Torres Straits Mail, to hand yesterday, give accounts of the total loss, on 13th October, of the ship Kingsbridge, bound for Sydney, by which disaster Captain Symonds, his…

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Arrival of the Mails Via Torres Straits and Suez. Loss of the Ship Kingsbridge From London to Sydney. Captain Symonds, His Wife, Daughter, and Eight of the Crew Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 16 December 1874 · page 2

THE papers by the Torres Straits and Suez Mails, to hand yesterday, give accounts of the total loss, on 13th October, of the ship Kingsbridge, bound for Sydney, by which disaster Captain Symonds, his…

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The Collision Between the Candahar and Kingsbridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 December 1874 · page 4

In yesterday's Herald there appeared a short account of the above disaster, taken from the Times of the 16th October. The following fuller particulars are given in the Mail:—…

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News of the Day. Accidents

Evening News · Thursday 17 December 1874 · page 2

Several accidents have occurred lately in the principal thoroughfares of the city, whereby the lives of pedestrians and others have been placed in great jeopardy. On last Friday a horse attached to a…

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The Collision Between the Candahar and Kingsbridge

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 787

In yesterday's Herald there appeared a short account of the above disaster, taken from the Times of the 16th Octoter. The following fuller particulars are given in the Mail:—…

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Loss of the Ship Kingsbridge From London to Sydney. Captain Symonds, His Wife, Daughter, and Eight of the Crew Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 24

The Candahar, an iron vessel of 1418 tons, Captain Joughin, belonging to Messrs. Brocklebank, of Liverpool, for Melbourne, laden with a colonial cargo, left London on Friday, and the Kingsbridge,…

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Accidents

Evening News · Saturday 19 December 1874 · page 5

A lad, 15 years of age, named Thomas Riddle, was taken to the Infirmary about noon yesterday, having had the fingers of his left hand crushed in a leather roling machine. It was found necessary to…

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Accidents

Evening News · Tuesday 22 December 1874 · page 2

A very serious accident occurred yesterday, at Petersham, to a man named Thomas Cleg, a labourer, employed at Mr. Hemmings's boiling-down establishment, at Petersham. Cleg, it appears, was driving a…

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The Late Boat Accident. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 December 1874 · page 8

SIR,—I have for some time past been hoping that some public recognition would be made of the courageous conduct of the youth, Charles Harris, who, at the risk of his own life on last Prince of Wales Birthday, rescued from…

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Accident to Messrs. Lucas and Woods

Evening News · Monday 28 December 1874 · page 2

An accident, which, at first, threatened serious consequences, occurred this morning, at half-past 11 o'clock, at the corner of Pitt and Market streets. It appeared that Mr. John Lucas, with his son Mr. John…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Frightful Railway Accident. London, December 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 December 1874 · page 4

AN express train on the Great Western Railway left the railks near Skipton. The carriages were precipatated into a canal, and thirty person[?] were killed…

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Shocking Fatal Railway Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 2

TO-DAY, as the 1 o'clock passenger train from the Southern line ran into the Sydney Railway station, an accident occurred which resulted fatally. It appears that as the train approached…

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The Collision Between the Candahar and the Kingsbridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3

The official inquiry instituted by direction of the Board of Trade, and conduoted at theo Greenwich Police Court before Mr. Patteton, tho magistrate, and Captains Scales and Nicholas, nautical assessors, has been conduded. The…

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Accident at the Circular Quay

Evening News · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 2

About half-past 9 o'clock, last night, two ladies fell overboard at the steamer's wharf, Circular Quay, and narrowly escaped being drowned. It appears that the officers of her Majesty's ship Pearl gave a pic-nic…

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Extraordinary Mining Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3
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THE Wallaroo Times of the 19th instant records a mining accident of an unusual kind. That journal says: "Yesterday afternoon, at Hughes's shaft, Mounts Mines, occurred a casualty of a character…

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Dreadful Accident at the Hounslow Powder Mills

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3

ON the 3rd November, a shocking accident occurred at Messrs. Curtis and Harvey's gunpowder mills, near Hounslow,by which four men, were killed, and a man and a boy injured. Amongst the numerous buildings on these…

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Shocking Fatal Railway Accident

Empire · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3

YESTERDA, as the 1 o'clock passenger train from the Southern line ran into the Sydney Railway station, an accident occured which resulted fatally. It appears that as the train approached…

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Two Men Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 31 December 1874 · page 3

ABOUT 5 p.m, on Saturday afternoon, a fetal boat accident, involving the loss of two lives, took pisce on the Yerra, about 200 yards below the Botanical Gardens bridge. Three young men went to Mr…

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