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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1876

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 11 May 1876 · page 2

About half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Thomas Johnson, the well-known saddler, who carried on business on Brickfield Hill, was found drowned in a waterhole at Enfield. It appeared that a…

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Fatal Accident in the Hunting Field

Evening News · Thursday 11 May 1876 · page 3

We regret to announce the death of Mr. John Radcliffe, J. P., who was killed while out hunting with the Cheshire hounds on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Radcliffe was the guest of Mr. Marshall…

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Coroner's Court. Accidenally Drowned in a Waterhole

Evening News · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest at LewisCerretto Public-house (the Woodcutter's Arms), at Enfield yesterday afternoon, touching the death of Thomas Johnson, who was found drowned in & waterhole in a…

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Serious Buggy Accident in Riverina

Evening News · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 2

Mr. Lands Commissioner Whittingdale Johnson, with his brother and Mr. Inspector of Conditional Purchases George Smith, were returning, says the Melbourne Echo, 3rd May, from Hay to Deniliquin, after…

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Shocking Accident in Victoria

Evening News · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 2

A fatal accident of a peculiar nature occurred at Boroondara on Monday afternoon. A man named William Henry Kirby, of Kew, and his eldest son, were engaged during the morning in grubbing trees. At the…

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Serious Gun Accident

Evening News · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 2

We regret, says the Wagga Advertiser, to learn that an accident of a serious character occurred to Mr. J M. Ronald, who is staying at Paika station, near Balranald. Hows came into Wagga on Sunday that…

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Late Accident to the You Yangs (s).— Marine Board Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 9

AN extraordinary meeting of the Newcastle Local Marine Board was held on Saturday, May 6, to make a preliminary inquiry into the striking of the You Yangs (s.), Alfred Thrussell master, when on her passage to this port from…

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The Collision Between the Challenge and New England

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 31

The Marino Board,coucluded an investigation this week into the circumstances attending the collision with the abovenamed vessels. The charge of default against Ed. Dalton, master of the Celiallnge, for a breach of the 120th clause…

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Collision in the Harbour. the New England and the Challenge

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 635

THE official investigation by the Marine Board into the circumstances connected with the charge of default made against Edward Dalton, master of the tug-boat Challenge, for committing a breach of the 120th clause of the…

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Appalling Railway Accident — Fifteen Persons Killed

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 8

Harrisonburg, Va., March 7,—An appalling railway accident, involving a heavy loss of life, occurred at the narrow passage bridge in Shenandoah country, nearly midway…

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Fatal Boat Accident

Evening News · Monday 15 May 1876 · page 2

About 8 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning a party of live young men (Messrs. Frederick and William Brown, Harry Gilmore, H. G. Watson, and another, whose name we could not ascertain) engaged…

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Apalling Accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Evening News · Tuesday 16 May 1876 · page 3

ON March 6 an apalling railroad accident, involving a heavy loss of life, occurred at the narrow passage bridge in Shenandoah country, nearly mid way between Edinburgh and Woodstock, on the…

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Cab Accident

Evening News · Thursday 18 May 1876 · page 2

About half-past 9 o'clock last night quite a commotion was caused in Pitt-street, not far from the Victoria Theatre, from the fact that a cabman named Edward Clough, who resides in Charles-street,…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Evening News · Friday 19 May 1876 · page 3

The Progres del' Est, a paper published in Alsace, reports that a dreadful railway accident took place on the morning of the 13th March, to a slow train leaving Mulhouse for Strasburg at 5 o'clock. As…

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Severe Accident

Evening News · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, as a carter named Robert Boster, employed by Mr. Smith, storekeeper, of Sussex-street, was conveying a load of potatoes from a wharf at the foot of King-street, to the store, the horse shied,…

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Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 2

On Wednesday last a child, seven years old, named Ada Josephine Neilson, was brought to the hospital, suffering from severe burns, received through…

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Shocking Ice Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 26

An inquest was opened on March 18th at Earlsdon Werwickshire, on the bodies of five children, named respectively, Hulme, Johnson, and Payne, who, were drowned on Sunday evenmg under…

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Fatal Accident in the Hunting Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 26

We regret to announce the death of Mr. John Radcliffe, J.P., who was hilled while out hunting with the Cheshire hounds on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Radcliffe was the guest of Mr. Marshall…

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Appalling Accident on Tite Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 26

On March 6 an apalling railroad accident, involving a heavy loss of life, occurred at the narrow passage bridge in Shenandoah country, nearly midway between Edinburgh and Woodstock, on the…

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Shocking Gun Accident at Burrumbeet

Evening News · Monday 22 May 1876 · page 3

A SAD and fatal gun accident, surrounded with more than ordinarily distressing circumstances, took place at the Two Bridges, Burrumbeet, this morning. It appears that a young man named…

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