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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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The Zig Zag Railway Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 42

The report of the Board appointed to inquire, into the recent railway accident has been received by the Minister of Works. The Board thinks that but for the slippery state of the rails there would have been…

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Fatality in Hobson's Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--While the schooner Rosetta, laden with lime, was proceeding up the bay from Sorrento on Saturday she was struck by a heavy squall. One of her crew,…

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A Shooting Accident. Crookwell, This Day

Globe · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

At a wallaby drive at Peelwood on Saturday a man poured John Food met with a rather serious accident. It appears that Ford was driving a horse and cat, and as…

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The Cause of Coal-mining Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 7

The first portion of an important work to coal-miners has recently been issued (a London paper says) by Mr. A. R. Sawyer, Associate of the Royal Society of Mines, and one of her Majesty's inspectors of…

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Death From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

ALBURY, Monday.--This afternoon a colored man named John Hudson, 21 years of age, met his death by drowning, He in company with two other men, were crossing…

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Supposed Case of Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--a gentleman named R. A. Murray, a visitor to the district, went out fishing in the Murray at Boileaux, three miles from Echuca, on…

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Singular Escape From Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

A young man, whoso name has not transpired, but who is said to be in the employ of a butcher at Waverley, met with a singular adventure on Sunday afternoon. It is said that he was walking with a companion along Bronte Beach,…

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Drowned in the Murray. Melbourne, This Day

Globe · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

The mysterious disappearance of the man Murray, who is supposed to have been drowned in the Murray, near Echuca, is not yet cleared up. Men have dragged…

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A Shooting Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

CROOKWELL, Monday.--A man named John Ford, while attending a wallaby drive near the residence of Mr. Luke Mills, at Teelwood, was accidentally shot in the head…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The body of au aged woman named Sarah Colin, was fished out of the Peterson River at Hinton early on Sunday morning. At an inquest…

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A Ferry Boat Collision

Globe · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 3

This afternoon, as the barque Edinburgh was being towed by the Mystery from her berth on the southern side of Circular Quay to an anchorage in the stream, her…

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Accidental Death

Globe · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 5

This morning an inquest was held at the Soudan Hotel, before Mr. H. Shiell. City Coroner, upon the body of Win. Stemming, a labourer lately employed on the new…

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Singular Escape from Drowning

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 749

A young man, whoso name has not transpired, but who is said to be in the employ of a butcher at Waverley, met with a singular adventure on Sunday afternoon. It is said that he was walking with a companion along Bronte Beach,…

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Painful Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 2

One of the most painful accident that it has ever been our duty to record, occurred at Emu Plains on Friday afternoon last, a brief out line of which was given in our last issue. From information now to…

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Coroner's Inquests. Fatal Accident on the Homebushwaratah Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 10

At the Soudan Hotel, yesterday morning, the Ci[?] Coroner held an inquest on the body of a Gentian, na[?] William Stemming, who died on Thursday night w[?] being taken to the Sydney Hospital, from the offec[?]…

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The Cause of Coal-Mining Accidents

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 771

The first portion of an important work to coal-miners has recently been issued (a London paper says) by Mr. A. R. Sawyer, Associate of the Royal Society of Mines, and one of her Majesty's inspectors of…

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Fatal Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 5

CROOKWELL, Friday.--An inquest was held to-day by Mr. W. S. Gunn, Coroner, on the body of Matthew Ryan. From some unexplained cause no medical examination…

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Coroner's Inquests. Fatal Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 7

The death of the unfortunate man William Stamming, who met with fatal injuries on Thursday on the railway line in course of construction between Homebush and Waratah, was…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1886 · page 5

The city coroner held an inquest on Saturday afternoon at the Soudan Hotel, relative to the death of an old man named Richard Newell, who was found drowned on Friday in the…

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Drowned in the Murray

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 April 1886 · page 5

WENTWORTH, Monday,--Messrs. barnett, land agent, Christie, surveyor, and F. W. Waring, accountant of the A.J.S. Bank, were bathing in the Murray on Sunday morning…

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