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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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The Accidents in the Suez Canal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 8

The serious accidents which have occurred to steamers lately in the Canal were referred to the other day in these columns as having caused some alarm at home. The Suez Canal Company hare been investigating the matter, in…

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Fatal Accident at the Liverpool Railway Station. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 7

Annie Southwell, 10 years of age, was run over and killed at the Liverpool station this evening by an engine which was shunting. The deceased was in the act of crossing the line, and before she could got out of the…

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TASMANIA. Serious Carriage Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 6

HOBART, This Day. -- Mr. Pregnall, his wife and son and two ladies, Miss Scott and Miss Whitely, and one gentleman friend were thrown from a vehicle while…

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Fatal Gun Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, This Day. -- Alfred Cooey accidentally shot his sister dead on Sunday near Jondaryan, while shooting wallabies…

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Shot by Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day. -- At the inquest on Henry Townshend yesterday, who was killed by a revolver bullet by a Customs officer who was handling the weapon, the…

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Fatal Burning Accident in Victoria. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- A shocking fatality occurred at Fyan's Creek, near Stawell, to-day. A little girl, aged seven, the daughter of Joseph Pickering, farmer, while gathering sticks in…

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A Bathing Fatality

Evening News · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

ALBURY, Wednesday.—Information has just been given that two boys named Robinson, sons of a stonemason, went on Tuesday to the Murray to bathe. The younger brother came…

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Supposed Drowning of a Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Wednesday.--What appears to be another case of drowning was reported to-day. A lad named Robinson, who had been playing truant, has been missing from his home since…

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Another Railway Accident

Evening News · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

ALBURY, Wednesday.—[?] named Raylock was thrown off a trolly this morning by a Victorian goods train colliding against it. Before…

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Accident at the Coffee Palace

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

A PAINFUL accident happened to a laborer named Edward Ward to-day. He was wheeling a barrow along a plank at the new Coffee Palace, in course of…

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A Serious Accident

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

AN engineer named William Summers, aged 22 years, residing at No. 115 Albion-street, was working at the Australian Drug Co's premises in O'Connell-street, this…

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Painful Accident

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

WHILST a driver named Charles Jersey, aged 36 years, residing in Waverley, was filling a cart with soil, to-day, he fell against the vehicle and jammed his head…

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Accident to an Alderman

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Yesterday a lad y seemed to be in danger on the railway line at Carrington, and Alderman Hughes rushed to her assistance, when a…

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Accident to a Laborer

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 6

A LABORER named Peter Gaill, aged 37 years, residing at No. 132 Market-street, was unloading potatoes at the Tasmanian wharf to-day, when he clipped, and fell on…

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Accidentally Killed

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of William Reuichert, killed in the South Wallsend pit, Lyington, on Monday, by a falling stone…

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Railway Accident at Albury

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, This Day.--Yesterday morning two fettlers were on a trolly close to the station, when a train came along, and the buffer of one of the engines struck one of…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 4

Kate Strickett. aged 68, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital early yesterday morning suffering from injuries to tho abdomen, caused through being kicked. She was taken by a…

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Accident to a Fettler

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 March 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Wednesday.--An accident occurred this morning in the railway yard of the Albury station. Two fettlers were on a trolly when a train came along, the buffer of the engine…

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Drowned while Bathing

The Australian Star · Friday 15 March 1889 · page 6

ALBURY, This Day.--A lad named Robertson, son of a stonemason, while bathing in the Murray, on Monday afternoon, was drowned. The deceased and…

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The Barcoo-beaver Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 March 1889 · page 6

Particulars of the inquiry held by the Queensland Marine Board into the circumstances attending the collision on the Brisbane River between the A. U. S. N. steamer Barcoo and the steamer Beaver of Brisbane, owned by Messrs. Webster…

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