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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1883

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Latest Telegrams. Accidentally Killed. LITHGOW

Evening News · Monday 2 July 1883 · page 3

An inquest was held to-day on the body of Colley, who died from injuries received at the ironworks. A verdict was returned that the deceased met with his death from a quantity of…

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Fatal Accident at Lithgow. LITHGOW

Evening News · Monday 2 July 1883 · page 2

The accident which happened to [?] Colley, at the ironworks, on Friday afternoon, resulted fatally at 7 a.m. yesterday. An inquiry is being held…

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Shocking Accident at Adelaide. a Woman Bubnt to Cinders. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 July 1883 · page 3

Yesterday a married woman named Nicholls, of advanced age,was found burned to death at her residence, Gawler. The neighbours were alarmed to observe smoke issuing from the windows of the…

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Shocking Railway Accident Near Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 July 1883 · page 3

John Richard Lucae, aged 65, a resident of Richmond, was getting out of a train at the Richmond station yesterday while it was in notion, when he fell underneath the wheels, and was…

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Accident to Captain Shaw

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 2

LONDON, July 2.—A serious accident befel Captain Shaw, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade. While directing the operations of the firemen at a fire in Long Acre, he fell from a…

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The Late Accident. To the Editor

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 4

SIR,—I wish to correct a statement which appeared in your issue of Friday evening last respecting a bicyle accident which took place on Friday morning in front of Messrs. D. Jones and Co.'s drapery…

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Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 3

This morning a young sum named John Kabble, 19 years of age, was admitted into the hospital, Buffering from injury to his back and hip. It appears that he had been engaged in polling down an old house in…

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Serious Accident to Captain Shaw. London, July 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 7

A serious accident befel Captain Shaw, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade. While directing the operations of the firemen at a fire in Long Acre, he fell from a considerable…

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Accidents at the Railway Extension Works. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 3

Sir,—In a letter to you on the 9th of last May I called attention to the immerous accidents resulting from the method by which the earth is removed at the railway works at Eveleigh. One of the unfortunate men alluded to in that…

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Serious Railway Collision Near Adelaide. Several Passengers Injured. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 3

A railway collision, attended with serious [?] not fatal consequences, occurred on the Holdfast 1 Bay Railway line to-day, when a goods train ran into a passenger train, owing to a dense fog, which…

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Serious Railway Accident. ADELAIDE

Evening News · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 2

A collision occurred yesterday morning at Plympton between the workmen's train, which left Adelaide at 6.55 a.m., and the goods train which left five minutes afterwards. The…

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Railway Accident near Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1883 · page 7

The 6.55 morning train to-day, which conveys workmen, left Adelaide at the usual hour, followed at 7 o'clock by a goods train with eight loaded trucks. The passenger train, which…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Gable.] Horrible Catastrophe at a Launch. 50 Persons Drowned

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 July 1883 · page 3

The new steamer Daphne was being launched on the Clyde to-day, when she overbalanced and upset. A large number of workmen were…

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Accident to Captain Shaw

Evening News · Thursday 5 July 1883 · page 2

LONDON, July 8.—The injures Sustained by Captain Shaw, C.B., at the recent fire in Long Acre, have proved to be of a less serious character than was at first feared. The captain is now…

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Tram Accident

Evening News · Thursday 5 July 1883 · page 2

This afternoon John Rowen, a fireman on one of the Woollahra trams, who resides at 335, Cleveland-street, while unstripping the cow-catcher from one of the motors at the yard of the Bridge-street terminus…

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The Accident to Captain Shaw. London, July 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 July 1883 · page 5

The injuries sustained by Captain Shaw, C.B., at the recent fire in Long Acre, have proved to be of a less serious character than was at first feared. The captain is now…

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A Child Drowned

Evening News · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 2

About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon a little boy named Henry Herrenschmidt. junr., eight years of age, was found drowned in a waterhole near the chemical works of hie father. Henry Herrenschmidt,…

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Collision in the Port River, Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 5

This morning a collision happened in the Port River. As the steamer Karawera, from Newcastle was proceeding up the stream, she came into collision with the dredger Willunga, ripping about 12 feet of her…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] the Daphne Disaster. 150 Persons Drowned. Engine-room Crammed with Dead Bodies. London, July 4

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 3

The number of deaths from the recent capsizing of the steamship Daphne, on the Clyde, is gerater than at first anticipated. 150 persons are known to have been drowned. The divers…

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Tram Accident

Evening News · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 2

Yesterday John Rowen, a fireman on one of the Woollahra trams, who resides at 335, Cleveland-street, while unstripping the cow-catcher from one of the motors at the yard of the Bridge-street terminus,…

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