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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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Accident to the Mail Train Between Albury and Wodonga. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 July 1887 · page 8

An accident, fortunately unattended with serious consequences, ocourred on the railway line between Albury and Wodonga about midnight on Friday. The mail train from Melbourne, due here at 11.30, did not arrive in time, and…

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Accident to a Mail Train. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 July 1887 · page 4

ALBURY, Sunday.--An accident happened t the mail train arriving here from Melbourne at midnight on Friday. Soon after crossing the Murray bridge the train rain into some horse…

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Fearful Disaster in a Russian Circus. Many Killed and Many Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 4

An extraordinary catastrophe is reported from the South Russian town of Neschin. A circus company from Moscow was playing in a wooden bulletins, which was crammed to the roof with…

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Fatal Accident on a Gunboat

Evening News · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 4

LONDON, July 25.—A fatal accident occurred on board H.M. gunboat Kite, at the Jubilee naval review on Saturday. Through the explosion of a gun cartridge one man was killed, and several…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Accident at the Jubilee Naval Review. London, July 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 7

During the Jubilee naval review off Spithead on Saturday last, a serious accident occurred on board the gunboat Kite. A cartridge exploded, killing one of the crew and…

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Accident at a Football Match. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 8

During a football match between Goulburn and St. Patrick's College clubs, on Saturday last, one of the Goulburn men, named M'Credie, met with a serious accident shortly after the game commenced. M'Credie had…

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Accident to a Mail Coach Near Hay. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Hay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 8

The mail coach which left Hay for Balranald on Sunday night had a rough time between here and Maude. Many parts of the road were covered with water. The river and creeks are much swollen. At one of the creeks the coachman…

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The Blasting Accident

Evening News · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 5

Thomas McLean, the miner who was injured at No. 10 section (Kent-street) of the Bondi sewer yesterday, and who was admitted by Dr. Clay to Sydney Hospital, was found to have been burned…

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Serious Blasting Accident

Evening News · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 6

On Wednesday a man, employed in Kent-street, in a branch of the Bondi sewer, was taken to the Sydney Hospital. He was burned in a terrible manner, and had a badly lacernted wound on the…

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The Feat's Ferry Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 4

The evidence taken by the departmental board of inquiry into the cause of the Peat's Ferry disaster together with the evidence taken at the Coroner's inquest on the same…

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Accident to a Jockey (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 July 1887 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Sam Floyd, a cross-country jockey, had several fingers blown off to-day through a gun he was shooting with bursting…

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Serious Accident at a Circus

Evening News · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

A very serious and almost fatal accident occurred at the Grind National Circus whilst performing at [?], West Australia, recently. Mr. Dobson, in a double trapeze act, falls from a top…

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Accident to a Mail Coach Near Hay

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 244

The mail coach which left Hay for Balranald oa Sunday night had & rough time between here and Maude. Many parts of the road were covered with water. The river and creeks are much swollen. At one of the creeks the coachman…

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Blasting Fatality

Evening News · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 5

A miner named Thomas M'Lean, who was injured at no. 10 section (Rent-street) of the Bondi sewer through an explosion which occurred on Wednesday last, succumbed to his injuries at…

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Two Children Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Sunday. -- Two children named White have been drowned in a quairy at Mount Eden. One perished in attempting to save the other…

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The Franklin-pharos Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- The Steam Navigation Board have concluded their investigations into the collision between the steamer Franklin and the tag Phares, by which the latter…

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Accidents

Evening News · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 7

The following were attended to in the Sydney Hospital:— John Maggan, 25, quarryman, Paddington, cut head…

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Accidents

Evening News · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 4

Serious accident happened on Saturday to a man, named Thomas Kilpenney, 26, laborer. He was working at the Hawkesbury River Bridge Works, when a large case of iron, fell upon him,…

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Accident with a Machine

Evening News · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 5

MUDGEE, Monday.—A young "man named Jas. M'Guiness met with rather a serious accident here on Saturday evening. He was working at a…

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Inquests. Fatal Accident on the Tasmania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 August 1887 · page 9

The City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., held an inquest on Saturday at the South Sydney Morgue touching the death of a man named Henry August Perkenfeldt, who met with a serious fall on board the steam collier…

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