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Accidents, 1882

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Accidents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 November 1882 · page 12

Taking into consideration the immense number of people who on Thursday wont out to enjoy the holiday, by steamer, by tram, and by vohicles, in all directions, it is a matter of some congratulation,…

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The Bathurst Collision. Latest Particulars

Evening News · Monday 13 November 1882 · page 3

One of the passengers who travelled from Sydney in the train which collided at Bathurst on Saturday, gives the following graphic and pathetic account of the accident. After…

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Serious Railway Collision. [By TELEGRAPH.l (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 November 1882 · page 8

A serious railway collision occurred here this morning. The mail train arriving at 3.30 came into collision with the goods train from Dubb[?]. The mail train had on board a number of passengers, including the Montague-Turner…

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Railway Accident at Bathurst

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 November 1882 · page 3

A serious railway accident happened at Bathms. early on Saturday morning to the mail train from Sydney, by which several persons were injured more or less severely. It appears that the mail…

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The Late Collision

Evening News · Tuesday 14 November 1882 · page 3

In regard to the late collision at Bathurst, it is said I that the inquiry has been concluded, but the report has not yet been submitted to the railway authorities. The medical report states that all the persons injured…

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The Peshawar-Glenroy Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 15 November 1882 · page 4

The P. and O. Co.'s steamship Peshawar, Captain E. J. Baker, left Gravesend, England, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, and Colombo on the evening of Saturday, October 14, for Australia, having on…

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The Peshawur Collision. (From the Ceylon Times, October 23 and 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 November 1882 · page 4

On Friday last, October 20, a Board of Trade inquiry was instituted at the office of the Collector Customs, Columbe, into the facts connected with the late collision between the P. and O. Steamer Peshawur and the barque Glenroy. The…

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Fatal Accident at Pyrmont

Evening News · Thursday 16 November 1882 · page 2

This morning, shortly after 7 o'clock, a man named John Matthews, a quarryman, whilst at work at Sanders' stone quarry, Pyrmont, accidentally met with his death through getting jammed by a large stone…

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Serious Railway Collision. Bathurst

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 886

A serious railway collision occurred here this morning. The mail train arriving at 3.30 came into collision with the goods train from Dubbo. The mail train had on board a number of passengers, including the Montague-Turner…

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Collision on Railway at Bathurst

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 8

ON Saturday morning last a serious railway collision occurred at Bathurst. The following are the particulars of the disaster:— As the 3.30 a.m. mail train was coming round the curve into…

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Railway Collision at Douglas. PARRAMATTA

Evening News · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 4

Another railway " smash" occurred last night near Douglas. The nigh mail-train, which left Sydney at 8 o'clock, when rounding a curve, ran into a goods train while on its southern journey…

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The Collision Between the Peshawur and the Glenroy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 11

The following account of the collision between the P. and O. steamer Peshawur and the barque Glenroy has been furnished to us by a passenger:- "The P. and O. Companys steamship Peshawur…

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Railway Collision at Bathurst. [By Electric Telegraph.] Bathurst

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 27

AT half-past 3 o'clock this morning a serious collision, and one purely attributable to gross neglect on the part of some of the railway officials, took place at the gates just outside the Bathurst…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

On Thursday morning a workman named George Thomas, together with his son Charles, a fine promising lad of 14, were at work on a scaffolding at a house in course of erection in Clarence-street. By…

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Accidents and Offences

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 7

Mr. Clark, S.M., disposed of the criminal business at the Centra! Police Court, yesterday, and Mr. Crane, S.M..sat in the Numinous Court. Susan Priestly was charged with being concerned with…

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Death by Drowning

Evening News · Tuesday 21 November 1882 · page 2

Yesterday evening, at about 7 o'clock, a sad death by drowning occurred at Petersham. A young man named Michael Dooley. who was said to be weak in hie mind, and subject to fits, was sent by his mother…

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Reported RAilway Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 21 November 1882 · page 2

We have received a report form an outside sources that another railway [?] happaned on Saturday at an early hour. Our informant states that the [?] occurred to the mail train form Sydney to…

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The Recent Railway Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 22 November 1882 · page 5

As may be imagined, a number of claims for compensation have been sent in to the Government through the late railway accident at Bathurst, and we understand that a good many of them have been…

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Death by Drowning

Evening News · Friday 24 November 1882 · page 3

A sad accident occurred daring the passage of the steamer Anna Maria from Paterson to Morpeth on Tuesday (says the " Maitland Mercury"). Mr. Chas. Hanford, a dealer, residing on the Upper Paterson,…

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