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Accidents, 1883

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Collision Between the Commodore and Boomerang

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 8

A collision took place in the harbour on Thursday night between the Port Jackson Company's steaming Commodore and the Newcastle Steamship Company's steamship Company's steamer Boomerang, bound to Newcastle. The Commodore, which had…

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Accident to General Grant

Evening News · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 4

NEW YORK December 27.—General Grant met with an accident to-day. Whilst walking down one of the streets of the city he slipped, and fell heavily to the ground, injuring his hip…

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Accident to General Grant. New York, Dec. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 10

General Grant met with an accident to-day. Whilst walking down one of the streets of the city he slipped, and fell heavily to the ground, injuring his hip. He was at once…

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ACCIDENT to the Eastern Monarch. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 10

The steamer Quiraing, which arrived from the Northern ports to-day, reports that the ship Eastern Monarch, bound from Townsville for Calcutta, in ballast, is ashore at the south-west end of Holbourn…

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The Late Tramway Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 1231

The City Coroner held an inquest, at his chambers, on Monday, on the body of a man named Robert Hogg, who died at the Sydney Hospital on Sunday morning from the effects of injuries received on the Botany tram line on…

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Accident to General Grant. New Pork, December 27

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 5

General Grant met with an accident to-day while walking the street. He slipped and fell heavily to the ground, injuring his hip. He was at once placed under medical treatment,…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 December 1883 · page 5

Yesterday, the body of a man, supposed from his dress to be a labourer, was found by the Water Police floating off Miller's Poin[?], and was by them conveyed to the dead-house. It has been…

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Fatal Accidents in Adelaide. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 December 1883 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A little girl named Charlotte Helbitt, residing at East Norwood, fell into a dug hole yesterday, and was killed. Early to-day a similar accident befell John Sexton, a labourer,…

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