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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1882

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A Brisbane Accident

Evening News · Friday 22 September 1882 · page 2

Yesterday Mrs. Honors Watson of Mitchell Town, Toomoo, Queensland, was admitted to the Infirmary suffering from a fractured right arm and severe bruises to the shoulder. On Saturday last, after…

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Railway Collision in New York

Evening News · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 2

LONDON, September 24.—Two trains collided and telescoped in a tunnel at New York, and 12 persons were killed…

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Accident to the s.s. Glanworth

Evening News · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 2

The A.S.N. Company arc experiencing the greatest of ill-luck with their new steamers. First, the stranding of the Ranelagh on two occasions, and now as accident to the Glanworth, which left on her maiden coastal voyage on…

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Accident to the Glanworth

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 3

The Australasian Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Glanworth, which cleared the Heads at 1.35 p.m. on Saturday, for Brisbane, was brought hack to port yesterday in tow of the steamer…

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Railway Accident in Austria. London, Sept. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 7

A terrible railway accident has happened in Austria. A train was crossing the River Drave, at Esdek, when the structure gradually sank. One of the couplings broke, and this…

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Accident to the Glanworth (s.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 4

ThE A.S.N. Compaty have, within s few days of the stranding of the Ranclagh at Howen, met with another dishcurtening mishap in the breakdown of the Glanworth, off Seal Rocks, at 1.15 yesterday morning. The Glanworth cleared from Sydney on…

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Appalling Railway Accident in Austria. Vienna, Sept. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1882 · page 7

A disastrous railway accident occurred to-day to a train which was crossing the river Drave, which separates Hungary from Croatia. As the train was approaching the centre of…

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Buggy Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 2

At about 10.30 a.m. yesterday, while a buggy was being driven out of the grounds attached to the residence of the Hon. John Marks, M.L.C., at Woollahra, the horse swerved, causing one of the fore…

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Appalling Railway Accident in Austria

Evening News · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 2

VIENNA, September 23.-A. disastrous railway accident occurred to-day to a train which was crossing the river Drave, which separates Hungary from Croatia. As the train was approaching…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] Terrible Railway Accident in Hungary. 30 Soldiers Killed. Vienna, September 24

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 3

A disastrous railway accident occurred today to the train crossing the River Drave, which separates Hungary from Croatia. As the train was approaching the centre of the…

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Appalling Railway Accident in Austria. Vienna, Sept. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 7

A disastrous railway accident occurred to-day to a train which was crossing the river Drave, which separates Hungary from Croatia. As the train was approaching the centre of…

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Railway Accident in Austria. London, Sept, 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1882 · page 7

A terrible railway accident has happened in Austria. A train was crossing the Rivet Drave, at Esdek, when the structure gradually sank. One of the couplings broke, and this…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 27 September 1882 · page 4

While a man named Patrick Smith was driving a waggon alone the Petersham road yesterday afternoon, by some means he got entangled with the reins and fell beneath the waggon, the hind wheel of…

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Accident on a Morse Tramway

Evening News · Wednesday 27 September 1882 · page 3

We are indebted to the Public Works Department for a clipping from the "Liverpool Weekly Mercury," of July 29, giving an account of a serious accident on a horse tramway at Birkenhead. It…

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Accidentally Killed

Evening News · Thursday 28 September 1882 · page 3

Yesterday, Mr. Pinhey, J.P. Deputy City Coroner, held an inquest on the body of Patrick Smith, 32 years of age whose death was caused on Tuesday by being run over by a wiggon. The evidence…

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The Fatal Accident at Petersham

Evening News · Thursday 28 September 1882 · page 2

We are requested to state that the unfortunate man Patrick Smith, who was accidentally killed by his lorry passing over him, was a married man, and leaves a wife and four children not in any way…

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Serious Accident. WINTON

Evening News · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2

A serious accident occurred yesterday at one of the dams upon the Elderslee Station, Winton. At 9 a.m., while six men who had been at work in the dam were having a smoke beneath…

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Another Tram Accident

Evening News · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon a cabman named E. J. Hoyen was taken to the Hospital by a constable. On being examined by Dr. Shearman, the cabman was found to have sustained a severe scalp wound on the back…

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The Surry Hills Fatality

Evening News · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 4

Yesterday Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry into the cause of the death of the children, Constance Letitia Delany and Lavinia Grace Delany, who were severely burned on…

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The Winton Fatality. WINTON

Evening News · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 4

Three of the men who were injured by the fall of earth at the Elderslie Station were brought to the local hospital this morning after travelling all night. One of the sufferers is not expected to…

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