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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

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Fatal Accident at Armidale.—Two Children Drowned. Armidale

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 74

Yesterday a boy 10 years old and his sister, aged six years, children of Mr. George Davis, superintendent of Herbert Park station, were drowned in Cameron's Creek, 12 miles from Armidale. The children went to the creek…

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News by Telegraph. the Drowning of a Young Lady

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 5

BRAIDWOOD, Friday.--An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. J. W. Bunn, coroner, upon the body of Miss Milne, a visitor from Sydney, and a verdict of accidentally drowned was…

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Appalling Railway Collision. a Conductor Driven Mad

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 9

London, January 11.-A terrible railway accident is reported from America. It appears that a goods train came into collision with a passenger train near Wyoming, Pennsylvania. The…

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The Fog in England. Railway Collision. a Guard Killed. London

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 5

Owing to the dense fog which has veiled the whole of Great Britain for two days post, a serious collision occurred this morning on the railway near…

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Chestnuts a Happy Accident

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 4

The rail gave way and over she went, Just clearing the side of the guard. The water was deep, but it failed to ingulf;…

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Coroner's Inquest. Fatal Street Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 7

The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held an inquest at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday regarding the death of a woman named Mary Fitzpatrick, who died in the institution on Wednesday night last. The deceased was…

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Accident at Redfern

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 8

A LAD, named Thomas A. Cramwell, 7, residing at 49 Walker-street. Redfern, was being chased by a little girl in Coopar-street, Redfern, this morning, when a…

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Accidental Death. a Runaway Horse

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 8

AN inquest was held at the Prince Alfred Hospital this morning, before the City Coroner. Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., touching the death of Mary Fitzpatrick, a native of…

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Accident at Circular Quay

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 5

A LAD named Leonard Ainsworth, aged 12, residing at Harris-street, Pyrmont, while playing with some other children this morning at Circular Quay, fell off a…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 7

Yesterday morning a boy named Herbert Todd, 8 years, residing with his parents at Golden Grove, Redfern, while playing with some companions fell into a boiler of hot water and was…

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A Boy Drowned

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--News from Plattsburg states that a son of Robert Murray, 13 years of age, was drowned yesterday afternoon in the reservoir near the…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 8

A YOUNG man, in the employ of Mr. Cantello, a baker in Manly, was drowned this morning while bathing in the Manly municipal baths…

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The Drowning Case at Manly

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 4

FURTHER particulars in regard to the young man who was drowned while bathing on Saturday in the Manly baths show that the deceased--John Mewhort by…

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Drowned in a Dam

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A boy named Murray was drowned in the reservoir near the Cooperative pumping shaft, at Plattsburg, on Friday evening. He, along with some other…

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Drowned in a Reservoir

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--At the inquest on the boy Murray, drowned at Plattsburg on Saturday, a verdict of accidental death was returned…

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Australian. Victoria. Terrible Coach Accident. One Person Killed, Several Injured

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--A terrible accident to the Birregurra and Lorne coach, due primarily to the double-purchase brake giving way, occurred on…

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Coroner's Inquests. Found Drowned in the Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 4

The City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J. P., held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel, George-street North, on Saturday regarding the death of a man, name unknown, whose body was found floating in the water at Point Piper on…

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Fatal Coach Accident Near Lorne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 7

A fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening at Lome. The coaches met the train at Birregurra and the road to Lorne traversing the Cape Otway ranges. The first coach arrived safely. The…

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'Bus Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 4

LATE on Saturday night Chas. Eastborne, aged 68, was run over in Oxford-street by a Paddington 'bus. On being taken by Senior-constable Hunt to St. Vincent's…

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Accident at Circular Quay

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 6

A LAD named Leonard Ainsworth, aged 12, residing at Harris-street, Pyrmont, while playing with some other children this morning at Circular Quay, fell off a…

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