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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

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Frightful Fatal Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 7 September 1875 · page 5

THE Quirindi correspondent of the Murrurundi TIMES reports a shocking fatal accident at having happened on Tuesday, 24th August, to a man named William Nicholson who had been engaged…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 7 September 1875 · page 5

A VERY strange mining accident took place on Tuesday on a claim adjoining the heap of tailings of the old Magnum Bonum Company, Chinamans, where a party of six men were working. The…

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Singular Double Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 7 September 1875 · page 5

THE GUNDAGAI TIMES relates the following particulars of a ticulars of a singular double accident: On Saturday last a severe accident befel William Hornby, an old resident at the Adelong Crossing. It seems…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 2

An accident by which the life of s workman named Thomas Doyle was sacrificed, occurred in the machine room of the Herald office this morning. It appears that Doyle, who was a very steady man of…

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Railway Accident near Goulbourn

Evening News · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 2

On Saturday last a serious accident occurred on the works on the railway extension between Goulburn, and Gunning, about ten miles from the former place, a man [?] James Rogers receiving injuries…

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Shocking Railway Accident in New Zealand

Evening News · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 2

A fatal accident happened on the 18th August (says the NEW ZEALAND HERALD), on the Auckland Railway, near Penrose Junction, whereby ed Jacob Dine vat killed ob the spot,…

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Coroner's Court. This Day. Shocking Fatal Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 3

The City Coroner held an iquest at the Currency liss, this morning, on the body of Mr. Thomas Doyle, foreman of the machine department of the HERALD office, who had met his death a, short time previously…

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Remarkable and Fatal Accident

Evening News · Friday 10 September 1875 · page 3

NEAR Inangahus New Zealand, two lath splitters, named respectively George Brown and Frank D [?] court, were cross-cutting a fallen tree. The tree was lying lengthways down the face of a very…

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News of the Day. to Advertisers. Double Paper To-morrow Please Send Orders Early. Accident to a Jockey

Evening News · Friday 10 September 1875 · page 2

Charles Feeson, a Jockey, while riding the [?] Tally Ho, over some hurdles at Randwick, on Wednesday, had a narrow escape. The horse struck the top of the nil and fell, breaking his neck…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Collision of Ironclads. London, September 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 7

THE ironclads Vanguard and Iron Duke came into collision off Wicklow, in a dense fog; the former sank in 19 fathoms water; no lives lost…

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Dreadful Fatal Accident

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 13

AN inquest was held on Wednesday morning at Tighe's Currency Lass Hotel, Pitt-street, touching the death of one Thomas Doyle, lying dead at the Herald Office. The following depositions…

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Accidents

Evening News · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 6

This morning, between 7 and 8 o'clocl, as a baker [?] Jefrey, residing at Shepherd's Padsock was delivering [?] tjo some of his customers in Castlereagh-street his horse was startled and began to…

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Singular Fatal Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 26

A driver on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lancashire Railway, named Henry Hippleshaw, met with his death at Godley Junction under peculiar circumstances. Deceased was the driver of the…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 9

THE City Coroner held an inquest at the C[?]rrency Lass, on Wednesday, on the body of [?]r. Thomas Doyle, foreman of the machine department of the [?]ERALD office, who had met his death a short time previously…

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Railway Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 26

A tree blew across the Totnes and Ashburton Railway on the morning of 9th July, and the first passenger train ran into it, but fortunately no one was hurt. The line had not been given clear by…

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Frightful Fatal Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 27

One of the most distressing accidents which we have been called upon to record for some time (says the G[?]ULBUBN CHRONICLE) occurred on last Saturday morning at Mr. C. Gillespie's tannery, at…

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English and Foreign Extracts. Two Ladies Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 5

On July 10 two young ladies. Miss Dicks and Miss Thorpe, of Newcastle on Tyne, whose families wire staying at Whitley, were taken out in a bathing machine to bathe. They had only been a…

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Shocking Fatal Accident at Newcastle

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 4

A terrible accident happened at Newcastle, yesterday to a young man named enry Simpson, a porter on the Great Northern Railway. On the arrival of the 9.30 passenger train at the Newcastle…

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Accidents

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 4

A rather painful accident occurred to Mr. James H. Rainford the popular boat of the Royal Hotel, William street yesterday evening. He as a member of the Woolloomooloo branch of the No.3 volunteer…

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Singular Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2

A somewhat singular accident happened on Monday (says the Toowoomba Chronicle), to a man named Frank Leonard. It appears that while under the influence of drink he strayed away from hit…

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