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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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Railway Accidents. a Train Off the Line

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

COOTAMUNDRA, Saturday.-On Saturday afternoon, a few minutes after 4 o'clock, an engine drawing several waggons loaded, soon after leaving the station for Junee, ran off the line…

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Strange Accident with a Rocket Apparatus. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

An unfortunate accident happened at Largs Bay on Saturday afternoon during practice with the rocket apparatus. In consequence of the absence of life-saving appliances on the occasion of the…

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Accident at the Gundagai Railway Station. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Cootamundra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

A special goods train split the points at the Gundagai crossing in the Cootamundra station yard at 4.20 p.m. to-day. The engine and four trucks got off the line and ran for several chains, cutting up the road…

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The Mount Kembla Colliery. a Popular Manager, Accident in the Mine. Wollongong, This Day

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

On Saturday night, Mr. John Evans, late manager of the Mount Kembla colliery, was the recipient of a testimonial from the employees, the presentation…

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Accident at the Lands Office

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 4

A LABORER named William Pigott aged 30 years, residing at 33, Burton-street, fell form in the new Lands Office this morning, a Height of 14ft. He was taken to the…

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Accident to a Cabby

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 6

A SERIOUS accident occurred this morning to a cabman named William Fenix, aged 49 years. Whilst driving along the street, he fell from his seat, and struck the…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 6

AT the North Sydney Morgue this morning an inquest was held before the Acting- Coroner, Mr. J. C., Woore, J.P., into the circumstances concerning the death of a…

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Railway Accident at Cootamundra

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

COOTAMUNDRA, This Day -- On Saturday afternoon a special goods train split the points at the Gundagai crossing in the Cootamundra yards, and the engine and…

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Inquests. Fatal Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 3

An inquest was held by the Acting Coroner at the Croydon Hotel, Lower George-street, on Saturday morning touching the death of John Lyons, a navvy, who was killed on the…

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The Accident to T. W. Garrett

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--T. W. Garrett, the New South Wales cricketer, is in much the same condition to day, and is still unable to move from his bed…

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Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 4

AT the North Sydney Morgue to-day, an inquest was held before the acting-coroner, Mr. J.C. Woore, J.P., relative to the death of a man, name unknown, who was found…

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A Railway Collision

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.-A goods train ran into a sheep train at Geelong station on Saturday. Three of the tracks of the latter were completely wrecked and forty-four sheep killed. It is alleged that the driver of the goods train disregarded the signals…

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A Boy Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

MR. J. C. WOORE, J.P., acting coroner, held an inquest at Marrickville yesterday into the circumstances concerning the drowning of a boy named Alfred N. G…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Yesterday afternoon the Acting Coroner held, an inquest at the Queen's Hotel, Alfred-street St. Leonards, relative to the death of Henry. Tinder, a man of about 35 years of age, who…

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Australian. Victoria. The Hauroto Collision

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The Marine Board gave its decision yesterday, in respect to the collision between the steamer Hauroto and King Arthur, the former…

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South Australia. Serious Railway Collision

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, This Day.--A rather serious collision occurred on the north line, about two and a quarter miles south of Farnia, on Sunday evening. It appears that an…

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Drowned in Lavender Bay Baths

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 7

AN inquest was held at the Queen Hotel, North Shore, yesterday afternoon, before the Acting-coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., touching the death of Henry Pender, aged…

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Inquests. Drowned in a Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 3

An inquest was held by the Acting Coronet yesterday morning at the Royal Hotel, Marrickville, touching, the death of a boy named Alfred Nicoli Glazebrook Tremlett, who was drowned…

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Drowned in a Water-hole

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

The Acting Coroner(Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P.) held an inquest at the Royal Hotel, Marrickville, yesterday, into the circumstances attending the death of a boy named Alfred Nicoli Glazebrook Tremlett, aged 11…

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