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Accidents, 1880

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Drowned at Ruschcutt[?] Bay

Evening News · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 3

The City Cor[?] inquest this morning at the Waratah Hotel [?] Bay Road, on the remains of the child Mary Ann Cannon, who was drowned yesterday at Rushcutter's Bay. The…

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Latest Telegrams. The Fatal Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—At the inquest held at Plattsbnrg yesterday on the body of Henry Roberts, the miner killed by a fall of coal in the Cooperative Colliery, the jury returned a verdict…

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Accident to Prince Leopold

Evening News · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 2

LONDON, July 19.—His Royal Highness, Prince Leopold, who recently proceeded to Canada on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne, met with a…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 July 1880 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon an accident occurred to a youth named William Peterson, aged 17, in the employ of Thomas Jelly, coal and wood merchant, of North Shore. It appears that Peterson was…

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The Recent Shooting Accident at Lake Macquarie

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 July 1880 · page 4

Concerning the recent shooting accident at Lake Macquarie, referred to in our telegraphic columns yesterday, the Newcastle Herald says :--"On Saturday morning Mr. W. Kerr Lochhead,…

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Accidentally Shot Dead

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 July 1880 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mr. Thomas Marsden, coroner, held an inquest at the dwelling-house of Mr. William Collins, Boxer's Creek, near Goulburn, on the body of Charles Thomas Collins, aged 13 years, who…

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Accident to Prince Leopold

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 9

LONDON, July 19.—His Royal Highness, Prince Leopold, who recently proceeded to Canada on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne, met with a…

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Another Dynamite Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 27 July 1880 · page 2

HILL END, Monday.—A sad accident happened to Henry Hopman, a maintenance man, on the bridle track-road, on Friday, through carelessness. He was worming dynamite by the…

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The Parramatta Accident Again

Evening News · Tuesday 27 July 1880 · page 3

In the Supreme Court, this morning, before Sir James Martin, the action of Turkinston, v. the Commissioner of Railways was tried. Plaintiff, a brickmaker, sought to recover damages for injuries…

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Accidental Death

Evening News · Wednesday 28 July 1880 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Belmore Park Hotel, yesterday afternoon, on the body of Thomas Gibson Gibbons, lately residing at 46, Mary-street, off Albion-street. The deceassed was found by…

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Serious Accident in a Public- House

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1880 · page 3

Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning a man, name unknown, was taken to the Sydney Infirmary by Constable Forbes, of the Central Police Station, suffering from a wound on the left eye,…

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Coach Accident

Evening News · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 4

SEYMOUR (Vic.) Saturday.—An accident occurred to the Tumberumba coach this morning, through the horses bolting. The driver was thrown off the coach, and had two of his ribs…

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Accidents

Evening News · Monday 2 August 1880 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon a 4-horse omnibus was seen [?]oming down Oxford-street at a terrific pace, without a driver. When near the Cambridge Club Hotel, it met a 'bus coming in the opposite direction, and but…

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Fatal Accident at Sea

Evening News · Tuesday 3 August 1880 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—During the passage of the steamer Kilarney from Melbourne to Newcastle, on Sunday last, when about 240 miles south of Nobby's, a Chinaman, named Ah Fi, fell…

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Serious Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 3 August 1880 · page 3

Our Nundle and Hanging Book correspondent writes:—A lad named James Heyman, aged 16, had his thigh broken, and sustained other injuries, through a fall from his horse on Tuesday last. The…

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Accidents and Offences

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 August 1880 · page 3

A case of a most unusual character came before the Central Police magistrates on Thursday, the 15th ultimo. James Erwin, formerly a pawnbroker in Clarence-street, was charged with having, on the 5th…

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A Terrible Collision and Loss of Fifty Lives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 7

On the night of June 11, the steamboats Stonington and Narragansett came in collision on Long Island Sound, near the Connecticut River, and the Narragansett took fire and sank. We yesterday gave the particulars of another…

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Awful Steamboat Disaster. Collision and Fire. Great Loss of Life

Evening News · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 4

IN the EVENING NEWS of June 14 appeared a brief account, by cable from our London correspondent, of a calamitous steamboat collision that occurred in North America, near the Connecticut…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A fatal accident occurred at Sandridge Town Pier at midnight. A man named John Smith was returning to his vessel, when he missed his footing and fell into…

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Accidents, &c

Evening News · Wednesday 4 August 1880 · page 3

A man maned William Turner, 22, Shepard-street, Darlington, was brought to the Infirmary yesterday, suffering from a self-inflicted wound in the neck, about 1 inch long, but only skin deep, whilst under…

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