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Accidents, 1890

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Latest Cables. Terrible Railway Calamity. Four Cars Derailed. Fall Over a Bridge. A Car Destroyed by Fire. Seven Ladies Burned to Death -- Their Bodies Consumed -- Nineteen Passengers Injured. LONDON, January 25

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 5

A despatch from America states that a terrible calamity has occurred on the railway line at Salem, in the State of Indiana. While a train was passing over the bridge…

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Drowned Whilst Bathing (By Cable)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 4

HOBART, Wednesday. -- A lad named victor Stuttered the son of an Ulvorstone store keeper was drowned whilst bathing in the River Leven to-day The body was recovered…

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A Brave Prisoner. Saves Two Lives From Drowning. (By Telegraph)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. --Matthew John Lane tree, who is under remand at Rockhampton on a charge of false pretences, yesterday Saved the life of a little boy who fell off a raft…

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Collision at Newcastle. a Barque Smashed Up. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 4

As the steamer Tagliaferro was swinging round at the dyke about 7 o'clock last evening, preparatory to proceeding to sea, she collided with the barque Jane Porter…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 6

An advertisement offers a reward to any one giving information which will lead to the identification of the person who has been fraudulently collecting subscriptions towards the-Searle…

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Casualties. Fatal Railway Accident at Eveleigh

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 8

Yesterday morning another railway accident occurred at the Eveleigh station. As a man named William Fleming, aged 20 years, was in the act of crossing from the outside line to the middle platform he was knocked…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Eveleigh

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1890 · page 6

Yesterday morning about a quarter to 6 o'clock & fatal accident occurred at Eveleigh station, making the second railway fatality near the city this week. Tho victim yesterday…

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Drowning Fatality at Liverpool. London, Jan. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 5

The second mate, Mr. Cree, of the ship Killean, bound for Melbourne, while trying to tranship a pilot at Liverpool, was lost overboard. A stowaway was also drowned…

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A Street Accident. a Horse Bolts with a Cab. Two Men Injured

Evening News · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

A somewhat serious accident happened in Devonshire street near the railway station Thursday afternoon, restating" in two men named Hopkins Hopkins, 46, 7,…

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The Prospect Quarry Fatality. The Widows Provided for

The Australian Star · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 7

MR. CRICK, M.L.A., having brought under the notice of the Minister for Works the case of the widows of the two men recently killed in the Prospect Quarry, and that of…

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Found Drowned at Sea. Mysterious Death of a Woman. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 5

The body of Mrs. Ferrier, a well-known resident of St. Kilda, has been found drowned in the hay. How she got there is a mystery, as no motive for suicide can be…

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Narrow Esoape From a Collision in Hobson's Bay. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 6

A Court of Marine Inquiry has been investigating the charges against Captain Campbell, of the steamer Ozone, and Captain M'Gee. of the steamer Coogee, of infringing certain articles in the…

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The prospect Accident

Evening News · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 2

At Wednesday meeting of the Cabinet it was decided to grant the widows of the two men who j were killed recently at the Prospect Quarry the i sum of 100 each, and the man who was injured…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 6

At the adjourned inquest on the body of a miner who lost his life at the Silver King Mine, Broken Hill, in December last, the jury on Thursday found that death was caused by the…

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The Accident at the Prospect Dam

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 4

Some short time ago an accident occurred at the Prospect Dam, when two men were killed and another was very much injured. The two men who met with their death left wives and…

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The Railway Accident at Eveleigh

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 6

An inquest was held yesterday at the South Sydney morgue, before the City Coroner, concerning the death of William Flemming, the man who was killed by being run over by a…

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Inquest. the Fatal Railway Accident at Eveleigh

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1890 · page 7

An inquest was held yesterday morning by Mr. J. C. Wooro, Uity Coroner, at the South Sydney morgue, on the b[?]dy of William Fleming, who was knocked down and killed by an Illawarra train on Wednesday…

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A Drowning Fatality

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 18

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A little boy, age 7, a son of Mr. W. Donnelly, of Stockton, was found drowned in the harbor on Saturday. He had been missing since the previous day. A…

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Drowning Fatalities at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 267

A drowning accident took place yesterday afternoon. A lad named Carr, aged 18, with several others was bathing in a pitfall adjoining the old Femdale Colliery, and getting beyond…

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Accident on the Lusitania. a Fireman Injured. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 11

This morning the intermediate stop valve of the engine of the Lusitania was blown off, and a coal trimmer named Peter George was so badly scalded by the steam that he had to be removed to the…

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