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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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A Minister Drowned

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Monday.—The Rev. T. A.Hanton, Wesleyan minister, stationed at Gladstone, was drowned on Sunday while attempting to cross the river near Sherwood, on his way to preach at…

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A Clergyman Drowned

The Australian Star · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Monday.--The Rev. T. A. Hanton, Wesleyan minister, was drowned whilst crossing the Macleay River at Belgrave on Sunday morning. The unfortunate…

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Supposed Drowning of a Wesleyan Minister

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Sunday.--The Rev. J. Hanton, of Gladstone, left town with the intention of officiating at the Wesleyan Church, Dondingalong, this morning. Subsequently a man…

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COUNTRY. Drowned in Newcastle Harbor

The Australian Star · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The body of John Johnstone, the seaman who was drowned from the steamer Talune, was found on Saturday. An inquest resulted in a verdict…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

Edward Reese, miner, residing at Minmi, fell from one of the upstair windows of the Paragon Hotel, Newcastle, on Sunday morning. The sufferer was picked up ia an unconscious state, but…

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Supposed Fatal Accident to a Wesleyan Minister. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 6

Mr. Thomas Galvin, while crossing, the MaclcayBelgrave Falls, found a sulky everturned on the river bank, containing coats and other articles. A horse was on the opposite bank this morning. It belenged to the…

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Inquests. Fatal Accident at North Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 9

The City Coroner held an inquest at his court, Chancery-square, on Saturday, relative to the death of a young man named. Alfred Adamson, who on Wednesday received injuries while werging in Eaton's timber…

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Railway Accident at Goulburn. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 6

An s[?]ident happened last night to a mixed train from Cooma, which leaves there at 3.30 p.m., and is due here at 11.15 p.m. About 11.5, when nearly a mile from Goulburn, three trucks and two wheels of another…

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Accident to a Laborer

The Australian Star · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 6

THOMAS MAHER, 49, a laborer, living at 75 Stanley-street, was working at the gasworks to-day, when a heavy plank of wood fell on his right leg, inflicting a compound…

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Fatal Foundry Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--George Siddons, who met with an accident at Russell's Foundry on Friday, died on Saturday. At an inquest held on the body a verdict of…

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A Fatal Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 6

An inquest was held on Saturday at the Coroner's Court into the circumstances connected with the death of a man named Alfred Adamson, who died in the Sydney Hospital on…

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Railway Accident at Goulburn

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

GOULBURN, Sunday.--The mixed train which leaves Cooma at 3.30 and is due at Goulburn at 11.15 met with on accident last night about a mile from here. Several tracks were derailed…

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Holiday Fatality

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 3

A BOATING fatality occurred near Glebe Island bridge late yesterday afternoon, when a young man named Ernest Robey, residing at 106 St. John's-road, Forest Lodge, was…

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Drowning of a Clergyman

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.--News has been received that the body of the Rev. Mr. Hanton was recovered whilst floating over the falls, a little below the scene of the…

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A Minister Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—The body of the Rev. T.A.Hanton. who was drowned near Sherwood, on Sunday last, was found this morning, some 400-500 yds from the place where he weak down…

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Collision in Darling Harbor

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 4

This morning the steam collier Timaru, while coming alongside the steamer Rodondo at W.Howard Smith and Sons' wharf, got jammed in between the steamers Lubra and Rodondo, and…

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Drowned at a Picnic

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Gloom was east over the numerous picnics to Tomago yesterday owing to one of the excursionists being drowned. A State school child…

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Drowned in the Flood

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.--The man who was drowned while attempting to swim the river during the flood has been identified as John Johnstone, alias Cha[?] Gill, aged 29,…

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Drowned in the Hawkesbury

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

WINDSOR, Tuesday.--It is reported that a lad named Jessup has been drowned in the Hawkesbury River, near the Richmond Bridge. He and others were swimming…

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A Child Accidentally Drowned. (By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

This afternoon a State chilu named Lily Roach, 8 years of age, was drowned at [?]omago Wharf. The child went on a picnic excursion of t[?] Roman Catholic children of Burwood. The steamer was full of children…

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