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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1877

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Accident in George-street

Evening News · Tuesday 20 November 1877 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon, about a quarter-past. 1 o'clock, as Mr. J. W. Smart was riding in his buggy near Mr. De La Rue's establishment in George-street, his vehicle was run into by a Glebe omnibus. Mr…

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Death by Drowning

Evening News · Wednesday 21 November 1877 · page 2

The following are the particular of the death by drowning of the youth Allen at Richmond, spoken of in our issue of Monday. Alexander Crease, a saddler, residing id Richmond, stated at the inquest that…

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Strange Case of Drowning

Evening News · Saturday 24 November 1877 · page 4

Early on Wednesday morning the dead body of a young man, about 25 years of ape (says the Melbourne ARGUS), was found floating in the Yarra, near the Falls Bridge, and was removed by the police to…

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The Collision on the Northern Line. NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. 12.50 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 27 November 1877 · page 3

A serious collision happened on the Great Northern Railway, near Muswellbrook station, yesterday afternoon, between two goods trains. The full particulars are not yet to band. It is…

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NEWCASTLE Serious Railway Collision on the G. N. Line

Evening News · Wednesday 28 November 1877 · page 2

Information reached Newcastle on Monday evening, that a serious railway accident had happened on the Great Northera railway line, near Muswellbrook. Immediately or receipt of the news the traffic manager. Mr. Higgs, accompanied by…

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Sad Death of an Immigrant from Drowning

Evening News · Thursday 29 November 1877 · page 3

An inquest was held by Mr. T. W, Pearce, coroner, on Monday afternoon, at Mrs. Puxty's hotel, Paterson, touching the death of John Burnham, an american immigrant who recently arrived in the…

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The Late Collision on the Northern Line. To The Editor

Evening News · Thursday 29 November 1877 · page 4

evening [?] seen a report of the collision on Monday New[?] at Muswellbrook by telegraph from your few [?] correspondence, and having perceived a [?] in it, Perhaps it may not be out of place to The only person who saw the collision occur, with the…

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Accident at Sea

Evening News · Thursday 29 November 1877 · page 5

Captain R. F. Scott, the well-known pearl fisher, was drowned (joins from Somerset, through the boom of the vessel bitting him, and knocking him overboard. His body was not found. A…

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A Sad Accident

Evening News · Friday 30 November 1877 · page 2

A Painful accident befel a lad named Harry Fiske, eldest son of Mr. H. G. Fiske, of No. 1, Wynyard Square, yesterday afternoon. While getting out of a carriage, a sudden swerve of the vehicle caused…

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A Sad Catastrophe.—Two men Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 1 December 1877 · page 5

A catastrophe, in which two men named Patrick Gardigan and James Mann lost thier lives by drowning, while four others narrowly escaped a watery grave, happened at Grafton wharf, yesterday afternoon…

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A Terrible Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 December 1877 · page 31

A telegram from Geneva states that Mr. Lewis and Mr. Waterson, with three guides, the brothers Knubel, left Zermatt on September 7 to ascend the Lyakamm; all five were killed by the bursting of…

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The Two Deaths from Drowning

Evening News · Monday 3 December 1877 · page 3

The City Coroner commenced an inquest at the Observer Tavern Lower George-street, last Saturday, respecting the circumstances attending the death or Patricle Cadogan, aged 39 years; and James Mann…

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Accidents

Evening News · Monday 3 December 1877 · page 3

A lad named George Wharton, residing with his pareuts at 443, Liverpool-street, bad one of his legs broken yesterday by being tossed by a cow. Another youth was severely injured in the thigh on Saturday…

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Fatal Accident at the Grafton Wharf

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 December 1877 · page 3

ON Saturday forenoon the City Coroner held, at the Observer Tarern, George-street North, an inquest touching the cause of death of two men named Patrick Cadogan, and James Mann, who were drowned on the evening of the…

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Boy Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 3

About 10.30 a.m. yesterday morning, a boy named Henry Humphries, aged 9 years, was found drowned in a well at the side of his mother'e public, house, the Gardiner's Hotel, at Gannon Forest. It is…

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The Two Deaths from Drowning

Evening News · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 2

The City Coroner yesterday afternoon resumed the inquiry at the Observer Tavern, lower George-street, respecting the drowning of the two men Patrick, Cadogan and James William Mann, at the Grafton…

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Another Accident on the Northern Line

Evening News · Tuesday 4 December 1877 · page 2

With that fatality attributed to troubles of never coming alone, Muswellbrook station (says the MURRURUNDI TIMES) has been the scene of another but less serious interruption of railway traffic On…

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Terrible Colliery Accident. —Loss of 200 Lives. [Full Particulars.]

Evening News · Wednesday 5 December 1877 · page 5

On Monday, Oct. 22, an explosion, perhaps the most disastrous in the history of coal-mining in Scotland, occurred at the village of High Blantyre, about eight miles from Glasgow, on the old road…

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Sad Mining Accident in Queensland. BRISBANE

Evening News · Thursday 6 December 1877 · page 2

[This message was inexplicably delayed in the Sydney office till to-day.—Eu. Evening News]. A serious accident occurred in the Aurelia claim, at Gympie, on Monday. The particulars to hand…

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Two Cases of Boys Drowned

Evening News · Friday 7 December 1877 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon the Coroner held an inquiry at the Half-way House, Botany, respecting the death of a child named Sydney Roland Goddart, aged two years and two months, the son of George Goddart…

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