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Accidents, 1887

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The Accident to Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons' Steamer Cheviot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 8

According to the South Australian Register of the 9th ultimo, Captain F. W. Strickland, the master, reported to the Adelaide Marine Board the accident to the Cheviot while on his last trip from Melbourne to Adelaide. The damage was found to be…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 6

On Saturday, William Fowler, 14, ropeworker, residing in Cooper-street, Waterloo, whilst crossing a street at Botany was knocked down and run over by a cart. He received some…

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Our London Letter. Men-of-war in Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 3

JULY 29.—An immense sensation was caused at Portsmouth on Tuesday when it became knownthat a serious collision had occurred between two men-of-war belonging to the reserve squadron, during…

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Fatality on a Coasting Steamer. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 10

The steamer Gambier arrived here from Melbourne and Sydney on Monday night. Captain Brown reports emitting Port Phillip Heads at midnight on the 10th, and passing Cape Otway at 6.80 a.m. on the 11th…

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Accidents

Evening News · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 3

The following have been attended in the Sydney Hospital:—David Gill, 45, laborer, Wool-loomooloo, bruised back and cut face; William, Andrews, 16, employed is a factory…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 5

SINGLETON, Wednesday.--Mr. Geo. Barclay had a very narrow escape from drowning yesterday evening. He was crossing the river, which is about ordinary level, with his cart, and…

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Drowned off Cockatoo

Evening News · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 5

James Rough, an employe at the Atlas Works, discovered the body of a man floating in the water off Cockatoo Island, between 6 and 7 o'clock this morning. Information was given to the…

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Accidents

Evening News · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 6
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Attended in the Prince Alfred Hospital:—Joseph Hawkins, 25, laborer, Mitchell-street, Glebe, kicked by a horse ia Mr. Isaac Young's stables. Glebe. Hawkins' skull was fractured…

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Dreadful Accident at Yass. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 7

A frightful accident happened this afternoon to Robert Elliott, who was mixing material in Warden's store for a torch light to be used to-night. The material exploded, blowing off the man's left hand and tearing away all the…

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Death by Drowning

Evening News · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 6

SINGLETON.—A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday evening by Mr. R. H. Matthews, J. P., on the body of Otto Baundorf, who was found drowned in the dam at Dulcalmah. It transpired…

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Railway Collision at Wangaratta. the Sydney Express Run Into. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A collision occurred to-night at 9.10 between the Sydney express, which left Melbourne this evening, and the down excursion train from the Albury show. The…

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Railway Collision at Wangaratta. Narrow Escape of the Sydney Express. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 8

A narrow escape from a serious railway accident occurred to-night on the arrival of the Sydney express at Wangaratta station. An excursion train from Albury and Benalla, containing a number of passengers,…

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Another Railway Accident

Evening News · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The down excursion train from the Albury show ran into the Sydney express train, at Wangaratta Station, at ten minutes past 9 last night. The first excursion…

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The Cause of the Peat's Ferry Railway Accident. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 2

Sir,--Notwithstanding the apparently exhaustive discussion that has already taken place in connection with the above accident, it still appears to me that the strongest point made by…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 5

A laborer named William Corney, 30 years of age, residing at No. 2 Fowler's Place. Kent-street, fell from the now building in course of erection at the University yesterday and…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 5

The inquest on the body of August Edwin Agerstrom, who was found floating in the water near Cockatoo Island on Thursday morning, was held at South Sydney Morgue on Friday, before…

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Inquest. Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 3

The man whose dead body was discovered floating in the water in the vicinity of the Atlas Company's works, Parramatta River, on Thursday last, was identified at the inquest held at…

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Railway Collision at Wangaratta

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A collision occurred to-night at 9.10 between the Sydney express, which left Melbourne this evening, and the down excursion train from the Albury show. The…

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The Wangaratta Railway Collision. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--In connection with the collision between the Sydney express aud the special excursion train at Wangaratta last night, the official reports received by telegraph…

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