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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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The Channel Collision

Evening News · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, March 3.—An inquiry has been held into the collision which occurred in the English Channel on February 5 between the ship Largo Bay, bound for Auckland, and the steamer…

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Drowned in a Bath

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday. -- Mr. D. S. Hart, who was for many years secretary to the Adelaide Synagogue, was found dead in a bath at his residence, Adelaide, on Friday. There were but…

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Fatality in Pitt-street. Crushed by a Fall of Earth

The Australian Star · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 6

AT about 10.30 this morning a sad fatality occurred at the intersection of Union-lane and Pitt-strect, on a section of ground which is being excavated for building…

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News by Telegraph. New South Wales News. Severely Injured

Evening News · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 8

LITHGOW, Saturday.—A young man named John Mirrell, employed as banker-off at the Vale Colliery, was coming home from his work on Friday morning, riding on one of the railway…

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The Collision in the English Channel. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 5

An inquiry has been held into the collision which occurred in the English Channel on February 5, between the ship Largo Bay, bound for Auckland, and the…

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Accidentally Shot

Evening News · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 8

PARRAMATTA, Saturday.—On Friday evening George Henry Wilson, Rosehill-street, was cleaning a revolver, and while fixing cartridges he accidentally shot himself. He was admitted to…

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Accident to a Jockey

Evening News · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 6

A rather-painful accident happened on Friday to a jockey named Alfred Doyle, 16, who resides in Davies-street, Surry Hills. He was engaged exercising a racehorse at the Agricultural…

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Revolver Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 6

PARRAMATTA, This Day.--A young man named Henry Wilson, married, and living in Rosehill-street, Parramatta, was last evening leading a revolver after having…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1889 · page 5

On Friday evening a jockey named Alfred Doyle, 16, residing at Surry-hills, was exercising a florae on the Agricultural Grounds when he was thrown against a post. He was…

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Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, This Day.--At an inquest held yesterday on the body of Joseph Sale, who was found drowned in the Keiwa-road lagoon, an open verdict was returned…

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A Boy Drowned

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 6

GOULBURN, This Day.--A boy named Holloway, whose parents reside at Eastgrove, was drowned whilst bathing this morning. The body has just been…

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Drowned Whilst Bathing

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 5

GOULBURN, Monday. -- A little boy named Holloway was drowned while bathing in the Mulwarrec ponds this morning. He was taken but of the water by a man named Lee, but life…

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Drowned in a Bath

Evening News · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Monday.—Mr. D. S. Hart, who was for many years secretary to the Adelaide Synagogue, was found dead in a bath at his residence, Adelaide, on Friday. There were but a few inches…

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Accident to a Seaman

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 5

JOHN RUSSELL, 35, described as a seaman, was brought to the Sydney Hospital this morning by Constable Huggard, of No. 4 station. Be was discovered by that officer…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 5

While a horse-trainer was riding along Crown-street yesterday a child ran suddenly in front of the animal he bestrode, and in endeavoring to avoid an accident the horse reared…

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A Boating Fatality

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1889 · page 6

BUNGWALL FLAT, Tuesday.—A laborer named Wm. Mathewson, residing of late near Charlotte's Bay, on the north-aast side of South Lake, six miles from Bungwall Flat, was drowned on…

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Drowned While Bathing

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1889 · page 6

GOULBERN, Tuesday.—A boy named Willie Holloway, aged 7 years, was drowned in the Mulwarrie River, on Monday. He entered the river for the purpose of having a bathe, when he got…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 March 1889 · page 6

Arthur Evans, a schoolboy, aged 6 years, residing with his parents at. Pyrmont, was yesterday knocked down by a butcher's cart at the intersection of Miller and Harry streets, and…

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A Groom Severely Injured

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1889 · page 6

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—On Tuesday four horses bolted with a commercial traveller's coach from the Caledonian Hotel stable yard, Tamworth, and created great consternation in town…

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South Australian News. A Horse Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1889 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—This morning at Port Adelaide when the steamer Warooka was being unloaded a young man went to back a horse attached to a cart close to the edge of the wharf,…

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