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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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Collision with a Man-of-War. Lisbon, December 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 13

Her Majesty's ship Sultan came into collision yesterday, in the Kiver Tagus, with, a Portuguese steamer, named the Ville Victoria. The latter vessel was sunk, and 30 lives were…

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Singular Buggy Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Friday,-- Wailace Robinson and James Cooks, of K[?]mo station, had a wonderful home iron Tu[?]ut, driving a buggy and pair,…

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Shocking Accident on Board the Steamer Burwah. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1887 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred on board the steamer Burwah last night when leaving the wharf for Maryborough. The particulars obtained are very meagre, but it is supposed that as the vessel left the wharf one…

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Inquests. Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday morning at the South Sydney Morgue relative to the death of a man who was found drowned near Coogee on Saturday morning. The…

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Fatal Accident on the Steamer Burwah

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1887 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.--A fatal accident took place when the Burwah was leaving the wharf on Saturday for Maryborough. Some fireworks were being let off, the…

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Inquests. Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1887 · page 7

The death of Joshua Wilson, who was found drowned in the Parramatta River, near Mort lake, on Monday morning, was made the subject of an inquest by the City Coroner yesterday…

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Drowned Whilst Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1887 · page 7

Early yesterday morning the rocky basin, Coogee Bay, which is largely used as a bathing place, was the scene of a sad drowning fatality. At about half past 5 o'clock Mr. Horn, a…

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News by Telegraph. a Seaman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1887 · page 5

Grafton, Tuesday.--A seaman named August, one of the crew of the Alice Jane, schooner, now lying at the Grafton public wharf, went into the river just after tea for a…

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Disastrous Railway Collision: Twelve Persons Roasted to Death. Great Loss of Life. (Reuter's Telegram.) New York, Jan. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1887 · page 7

A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train, collided, killing 22…

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Accident to Bedlamite

Referee · Thursday 6 January 1887 · page 8

Chaston was up on Maddelina 's sister' Bedlamite, who was a hot favourite for the Edwardston Handicap, when she put her foot in a hole and broke her leg…

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Inquests. Accidentally Poisoned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1887 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday morning at the Currency Lass Hotel, Glebe road, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ellen Mary Neely, a girl of about 14…

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Terrible Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 5

New York, Thursday.--A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and…

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The Collision between the Helen Nicoll and the Keilawarra

Illustrated Sydney News · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 4

ONE of the most appalling of the long list of shipwrecks that has invested so many points on our coast with a sad and gloomy history occurred, when a few days ago the Helen Nicoll, on her trip from Grafton to Sydney,…

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The Keilawarra and Helen Nicoll Collision. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 3

Sir,—Some six years ago I pointed out the means of avoiding such f[?]ightful catastrophies as the above. It appears to me that if communication could be opened up between the officers in charge of each ship, the one could…

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Disastrous Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life. Twelve Persons Roasted to Death. (Reuter's Telegram.) New York, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1887 · page 5

A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train, collided, killing 22 persons on the…

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Disastrous Railway Collision

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 9

New York, Jan. 5.—A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train collided, killing 22 persons on…

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The Recent Collision in Hobson's Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Steam Navigation Board found to-day that the collision between the passenger steamer Lonsdale and the schooner Tyro, which took place in the West…

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Disastrous Railway Collision. New York, Jan. 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 66

A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train collided, killing 22…

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Three Boys Drowned While Bathing. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--At Tighe's-hill this afternoon three little boys named Albert Kempster, Henry Coome and Richard Pickavion, met with their deaths by drowning in…

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Fatal Bathing Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 3

A second inquest was held at the Assembly Hotel yesterday morning by the City Coroner, touching the death of a boy named William Hanlan, who died in the Sydney Hospital on…

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