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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Tram Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 4

An old man named Thomas Howard, who resides in Allison-street, Randwick, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Monday sight suffering from severe bodily injuries, occasioned…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

A fire occurred at Newport (Vic.) shortly after midnight on Sunday, breaking out in a four-roomed weatherboard cottage, at the rear of nine cottages in Eliza-street, of which three were…

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Fatal Boating Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

It is seldom that a public holiday like ay Day goes by without a fatality like Anniversary Day Roes toy without a fatality occurring in the harbor. Daring tho regatta there were several capsizes, bab np to the last race no loss of…

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Drowing Accident at Richmond. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

A drowning accident took place to-day at Richmond. A lad named Edwin James Jessep, aged 12 years, son of Mr. Jessep, baker, lost his life…

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Extraordinary Accident to a Goods Train. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

An extraordinary accident happened on the railway early on Friday morning to a goods train which left Spencer-street at 1.30 a.m, for Sandhurst. It divided itself into two on the…

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Fatal Result of an Accident. Death of an Old Practical Miner. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 5

Mr. Paulo Marcolino, well known in mining circles, died yesterday from the affects of accident received on Tuesday by falling from a cart on to a place of timber. The deceased was an old resident of the…

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COUNTRY. Shocking Gun Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.--A painful gun accident happened to a son of Nicholas Muller, of Houlagon's Creek. He was drawing a cartridge from a muzzle-leader when…

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Double Railway Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Last night the bodies of a young woman and a little boy were found on the railway line between Laverton and Werribee. The female has been…

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The Boating Fatality

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 6

AT the inquest held this afternoon at Reddon's Bridge Hotel, Forest Lodge, on the body of Ernest Robey, who lost his lite last evening through the capsizing…

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Drowned In a Waterhole

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday,--Information was received at the police station yesterday evening that a child, 3 years old, had been drowned in a waterhole at Teralba. The…

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Drowned at a Picnic

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 2

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

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Two Girls Drowned While Bathing

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 6

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Two daughters of Mr. Flavelle, jeweller, of Roma, named Florence and Julia, were drowned on Saturday at Mitchell Downs whilst bathing…

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Herga and Julia Collision. a Reprimand

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 3

The Marine Board gave its decision yesterday in the case of the steamer Herga and schooner Julia collision, which took place on the 10th instant. The board found that the collision…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 6

Johnston, the perpetrator of the Ballarat tragedy, is rapidly sinking. The body of a boy named Mantle was discovered floating in a water hole, at Teralba, on…

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Accident to a Railway Guard

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 5

A railway guard named John Hyndes, 44, residing at No. 21, Railway-street, Camperdown, was taken to Sydney Hospital yesterday, suffering from a severe abrasion on the right side…

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Fatal Boating Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 5

An inquest was held at Reddon's Bridge Hotel, Forest Lodge, yesterday, relative to the death of the lad Ernest Robey, who was drowned near the Glebe Island Bridge, on Monday,…

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Accident to A.steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 6

An accident occurred yesterday as the collier Timaru was endeavouring to run alongside the steamer Ronondo at Messrs. Howard Smith's wharf. At the Hunter River Wharf close at hand, there were having the Namol next the…

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Fatal Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 5

RICHMOND, Tuesday.--A lad named Edward Jessop, son of Mr. Jessop, baker, was drowned yesterday while bathing in the Hawkesbury River with some other lads…

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The Centennial Park Drowning. Solving the Mystery

The Australian Star · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 5

REGARDING the somewhatmysterions drowning .which occurred in one of the Centennial Park dams on January 20, the police have almost succeeded in having the identity of the…

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Railway Disaster in America. Terrible Collision Between Trains

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night,--A disastrous railway collision is reported to have occurred in Kansas, in the United States. A train, conveying cavalry from the seat…

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