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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 24

Collision in the Harbour

Evening News · Thursday 16 September 1875 · page 3

This morning, at 2 o'clock, a collision took place in the harbour between the screw steamer City of Hobart and the schooner Fanny Wright, bound out wards to Guam. The schooner was very badly…

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Collision in the Harbour.—sinking of the Schooner [?]Anny Wright

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 September 1875 · page 4

Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock a serious collision took place between the steamship City of Hobart and schooner Fanny Wright. The latter vessel was outward bound and when off Bradley's Head was ran into by the City of Hobart, inward…

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Two Ladies Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 26

On July 19 two young ladies. Miss Dicks and Miss Thorpe, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, whose families were staying at Whitley, were taken out in a bathing machine to bathe. They had only been a…

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Telegraphic. European Intelligence. (Via Torres Straits.) Collision of Ironclads. London, September 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 362

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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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegram to Australian Associated Press. Collision Between the Royal Steamer Alberta and the Yacht Mistletoe. London, September 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 9

The inquiry into the cause of the collision between her Majesty's steamer Alberta and the yacht Mistletoe has terminated. The verdict is to the effect that the collision was…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 2

An accident of an exceedingly grevious nature occured to several of our townsmen on Friday afternoon the 10th inst., on the Sydney-road. It appears that…

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Remarkable and Fatal Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 26

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

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Drowned in a Waterhole

Evening News · Monday 20 September 1875 · page 2

About one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Kinian Melville, cabinet-maker, of Australia street, Kingston, reported at the local police station that his on Ninian Thomas Melville, aged 5 years and 11…

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American News by the San Francisco Mail. a Terrible Railroad Accident in Chile

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1875 · page 3

PANAMA, August 10.—On the night of the 6th ultimo one of the most horrible railroad accidents that has over happened in Chile occurred on the Santiago and Valparaiso road. As the 10.30 p.m. train from Valparaiso was passing…

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Gunpowder Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 4

A boy Burned Hendaraon was brought [?] Manly Beach, and admitted into the Infirmary, this morning. He was out with fail father, yesterday, shooting at Brisbane Water. The boy was carrying a…

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The Late Collision in the Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 September 1875 · page 5

THE Marine Board commenced an inquiry on Monday respecting the collision between the steamship City of Hobart, and the schooner Fanny Wright, which resulted in teh sinking of the latter vessel on Thursday morning last…

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News of the Day. Dray Accident

Evening News · Thursday 23 September 1875 · page 2

A dray belonging to Messrs. Casey and Co. was backed over the edge of the Ciroalar Quay yesterday by a bone, which was drowned for its trouble…

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Collision Between the Royal Steamer Alberta and the Yacht Mistletoe. London, September 12

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 406

The inquiry into the cause of the collision between her Majesty's steamer Alberta and the yacht Mistletoe has terminated. The verdict is to the effect that the collision was…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 2

An accident which might have resulted more seriously happened to a boy, the son of Mr. Eliot, [?] the Junction Wool-washing establishment, on yesterday…

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Woman Found Drowned in the Harbour

Evening News · Monday 27 September 1875 · page 2

This morning the water police were furnished with information, to the effect that the body of a woman was floating in the harbour below F.rt Denison (Piachgut), and immediately afterwards a boat,…

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Accident to Dr Sparkes

Evening News · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 2

Shortly before four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Dr. Sparkes, of the [?] road, Newtown, while undervouring to get off om ious No. 102, on the Newsown-road, suddenly fell to the ground and broke…

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Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 September 1875 · page 6

A third inquest was held about half-past 12 o'clock, at the Belmore Hotel, concerning the death of a woman named Bridget Ferris, who was found drowned in the harbour on Monday morning. The following depositions…

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