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Accidents, 1885

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The Markets Fatality

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 8

An inquest was bold yesterday in the Great Britain Hotel, Kent and King street, by the City Coroner on the body of the boy Philip Mealey, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Wednesday morning from…

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Iberia-Nemesis Collision. the Inquest

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 6

An inquest was begun yesterday in the White Hart Hotel, by Mr. Sheiil, J.P., into the circumstances connected with the death of Margaret Hornby Capel, who was killed on Tuesday afternoon in the harbour…

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A Frightful Mishap.—a Boy Terribly Injured

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 4

A frightful tram accident happened shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, to a lad named John Osborne, 14 years of age, whose parents reside in Summer Hill. The boy had in his possession at the time of the…

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Coroner's Inquests. the Collision Between the Iberia and the Nemesis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 4

An inquiry was commenced yesterday morning at the White Hart Hotel, George-street North, by the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) into the circumstances connected with the death of Margaret Ho[?]by…

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Four Tram Accidents. Misfortunes Never Come Singly. a Stoker Crippled

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 4

Joke Bricketson, 33 years of age, a stoker employed on the Government tramway, met with a serious accident at 12 o'clock last night. It appears that Bricketson was getting on his…

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A Serious Accident. a Schoolboy Run Over

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 8

A serious accident happened yesterday to a lad, William Price, 12 years of age. It appears that the boy was going home from school, and was crossing Pitt-street at the intersection of Bathurst-Street,…

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The Fatal Accident on the Nemesis. Practical Sympathy for the Orphans

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 6

Yesterday morning Mr Dalley received two applications concerning the children of Mrs Bessie, who was unfortunately killed by the collision between the Nemesis and the Iberia…

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The Railway Accident in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.--Several actions for damages in connection with the late railway collision on the South western line at Daria come on at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Mr…

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The Nemesis-[?]ria Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 4

Mr Dalley is making arrangements for the cars of Private Sess[?]'s chud[?]en, who[?]e mother was killed on the day of the dep[?]ure of the troops, and they will be placed under the charge of a…

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A Man Drowned. BRISBANE

Evening News · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 4

On Friday, while the Maranoa, from Sydney, was crossing Luggage Point Cutting, Moreton Bay, a saloon passenger named A. H. Hamilton, who was sitting on the taffrail, fell overboard…

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A Serious Accident. TEMORA

Evening News · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 6

A man named Jordan, a boundary rider, on Mr. Keen's Narraburra run, was brought into town on Tuesday, and conveyed to the hospital. It appeared that he was returning to the station…

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Serious Accidents

Evening News · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 6

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The Holiday Accidents

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 16

THE boy Philip Maley, who met with the accident on Tuesday, has died from the effect of his terrible fall from the Markets. The inquest on the bodies of Margaret Hernby Capell and Maria Sessle…

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Fatal Boating Accident at Gosford. Gosford

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 511

A fatal boating accident at Gosford Broadwater occurred at 6.30 this evening. Mr. J. B. Anderson, Civil engineer to Mr. George Blunt, contractor for the third section of the Homebush to Waratah railway, was returning from Woy…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 5

A seaman named Eva Carls[?]n, a Swede 2[?] years of age, belonging to the ship Ki[?]na [?]ell f[?] a beam over the 'tween decks yesterday morning, injuring his head and face. He was received at…

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Tram Accidents. Shocking Death of a Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 5

Tram accidents have been fewer in number of late, but we have now three of them to record. The worst one--a shocking case--occurred just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning. A Glebe Point tr[?]…

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Serious Accident to a Sightseer

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 10

A serious accident occurred during the afternoon to a lad named Philip Mealey, 13 years of age, whose parents reside in No. 385, Kent-street. It appears that the lad was watching the military procession…

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Serious Artillery Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 12

LONDON, February 28.—A fatal accident took place yesterday during artillery practice which was being carried on at Shoeburyness. A shell prematurely exploded and killed an officer and a…

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A Seaman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1885 · page 8

A melancholy accident happened during the voyage of the German ship Hermann, Iron Hamburg to Sydney, by which a seaman named Gerhard Phoebe lost his life. Phoebe was engaged…

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Drowned whilst Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1885 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--This morning a man named John Steel, a miner, living at Glebe, near Newcastle, whilst bathing in the breakers near the old Smelting Works, Bedhead, was drowned…

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