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Accidents, 1880

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[?] English and Foreign. the Tay Bridge Railway Accident. London, Jan. 8

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1880 · page 126

The divers are still continuing their work of searching for the bodies of the unfortunate victims of the late railway accident at the Tay railway bridge. Fourteen bodies in all…

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The Late Railway Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1880 · page 128
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Every body took it for granted that the subject of the late railway accident at Parramatta and Mr. LACKEY'S decision upon it would be brought under discussion soon after Parliament…

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Rescue Prom Drowning

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 3

At half-past 9 o'clock Friday night, the 16th instant, a little boy fell into the water off the pier, at Manly, and Mr. B. Skinner, wharfin[?]r, being on the pier, jumped after the boy without the slightest…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 4

Constable Fears reported this morning, to the City Coroner that between 3 and 6 o'clock, yesterday morning, the dead of a man whose name is at present unknown, was found Hasting in the water…

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Another Railway Collision in England. London, January 17

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 5

A railway collision has taken place at Ormiskirk 13 miles from Liverpool, resulting in seven people being killed, and 30 more or less seriously injured…

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Disastrous Railway Collision Near Liverpool. London, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 5

A railway collision, has taken place at Ormakirk, 13 miles from Liverpool, resulting in 7 persons being killed, and 30 more or less injured…

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The Railway Accident at Goulburn

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 3

GOULBURN, Monday.—William Stagg, who was so severely injured on the railway, died yesterday afternoon. His relations reside at Sutton Forest…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A fatal accident occurred on the Groat Northern Railway line on Saturday night, by which a young man named Walter Philips, a carriage inspector in the…

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Singular Accident

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 3

A woman Darned Margaret Davis, aged 31, was on Saturday moraine taken to the Infirmary by Constable Pan[?]ell. She had been fighting with another woman and fell over a quarry in Pyr[?]ont, sustaining a…

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ACCIDENTS, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 7

An extraordinary adventure with a shark took place at Cooranbong. A little girl, aged 18, was bathing in a small bay near Dora Creek, Lake Macquarie, in comparatively shallow water, when a large shark-suddenly seized her by…

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The Railway Accident at Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 7

The decision of the Minister for Works has been given on the inquiry into the collision at the Parramatta Junction on Boxing Day, when the train which should leave Parramatta at 5.40 p.m., was loading with passengers, and a…

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Accidents and Offences

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1880 · page 6

On the 1st instant an inquest was held by the city coroner on the body of a woman named Anne Dwight, who was, on the previous day, found dead, hanging from the top of her bedstead at…

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Found Drowned near Fort Macquarie

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1880 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday afternoon at the Brecknock Arms on the body of a man who was found floating in the water near Fort Macquarie on Sunday morning. From ovidence it appeared…

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The Recent Railway Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1880 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—An inquest True held yesterday respecting tho death of tho man Phillips, who met bis death by being run over by a locomotive engine on the Newcastle railway…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1880 · page 2

A lad filmed Gerge Elliott, aged 17 years, fell down from the scaffolding of a home in the course of motion at the comer of Liverpool-street, yesterday, and was killed instantansu. an inquest will be…

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Harbour Steamer Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1880 · page 3

This morning a serious accident [?] to the harbour steamer Minx, which was engaged mooring round the A.S.N. CO., a steamer james Paterson, at the company a wharves. The Minx had a rope, on…

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Fatal Accident on the Northern Line. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1880 · page 5

Last night, a shocking accident, terminating fatally, happened on the Great Northern railway, near Honeysuckle Point station, to an employe of the Railway Department, named Walter Phillips, carriage inspector,…

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Collision in Darling Harbour

Evening News · Wednesday 21 January 1880 · page 2

As the steamer Southern Croes was leaving the Grafton Wharf yesterday afternoon for Tasmains, and just as she gained ste[?] way a small harbour steamer named the Orphan Girl laden with metal, attempted…

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Collision in the Harbour

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1880 · page 3

As the Tasmanian steamer Southern Cross was putting out to sea from the Grafton Wharf, Darling Harbour, yesterday afternoon, she came into collision with tho lighter Orphan Girl, which was laden with…

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