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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Fatal Accident at a Brewery

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 6

An inquest was held yesterday at the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, into the circumstances connected with the death of a laborer named Charles Dickie, who died…

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The Strange Drowning Case at Manly

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 4

It will be remembered that some three weeks ago a young man named James Finney, residing at Stanmore, mysteriously disappeared while fishing at Manly, leaving an overcoat and…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 6

At the inquest en the body of Mrs. Lowenthal, who died in the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday from the effects of injuries she received at the er[?]he on Monday, the jury returned a verdict…

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Mining Accident Near Mount M'donald. Two Miners Buried by a Fall of Earth. [By Telegraph. (From Our Correspondent.) Mount M'donald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 5

A sad accident is reported from the battery on the Lachian River at Darby's Falls, nine miles from here. Two men named Charles Littlefield and Schey, an enginer, were in a drive 400ft. in when's fall of…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Eveleigh

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 6

Yesterday morning Mr. Sidney lee, a draftsman is the employ of the locomotive department at Eveleigh, was knocked down by train and killed while crossing the line at…

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Drowning Fatalities

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- Beatrice Maud Jackson, a child aged 18 months, was drowned this afternoon at Cardiff through falling into an underground tank at the rear of her parents'…

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Drowned at Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 10

Yesterday afternoon a sad case was reported to the Water Police. While one of the rubbish punts was being towed in from sea by the steamer Thetis, and when about three-quarters of a mile outside South…

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The Eveleigh Railway Fatality

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 2

A VERDICT of accidental death was returned at the inquest held yesterday on the body of Simeon Sydney Lee, the young man who was killed on the railway at Eveleigh station…

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Brother and Sister Drowned. Wiseman's Ferry

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 329

News reached Wiseman's Ferry to-day that the two children of George Hibbs, who lives near the mouth of Mangrove Creek, a boy eight years and a girl 14 years, were drowned on Wednesday evening in the…

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Carriers' Quarrel. a Horse Drowned. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 6

Two carters, while quarrelling to-day at the South Wharf, backed a horse and lorry into the Yarra. The horse was drowned…

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Drowned in Newcastle Harbour (By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 9

About 11.30 last night Senior-constable Shearer was informed that a man was seen to fall into the harbour from the A. A. Company's wharf. The police commenced to drag the spot where the man had fallen in, and…

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Serious Accident

Evening News · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

An old lady named Bridget Mitchell, living at 40, Randwick-street, Leichhardt, met with a painful accident last night. While alighting from a tram she was knocked down by a passing…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 5
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Information was received by the police authorities at Newcastle on Thursday night that a man had fallen into the harbor from the A. A. Co.'s Wharf. The police commenced to drag the spot…

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Only an Accident

Evening News · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 6

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday William Johnson pleaded not guilty to a charge of having set fire to a quantity of bedding at his residence, 54, Wellington-street, Chippendale, on December 5…

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Casualties. Fatal Result of an Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 10

On the 3rd instant a man named John Shortall, 55 years of age, and employed at Messrs. Elliott Brothers, chemical works, Balmain, met with an accident while at his work, which resulted in his death yesterday, at…

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The Mining Accident Near Mount M'donald. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Mount M'donald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 9

The Battery Point mine, where two men were buried yesterday by a fall of earth in the tunnel, is situated at the junction of the Lachlan and Burrowa Rivers, about 10 miles from here. The miners from…

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Fatal Result of an Accident

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 6

A MAN named John Shortall, 55, a resident of 5 Cullen-street, Balmain, died to-day from injuries accidentally received on Tuesday last. On the morning of that day…

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The Fatal Accident at Eveleigh

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 5

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday morning at the South Sydney Morgue on the body of Simeon Sydney Lee, aged 21, who was knocked down and killed by a train at Eveleigh…

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Mining Accident. -- Two Men Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 5

COWRA, Friday. -- At Darby's Falls yesterday, it was discovered that the mine had fallen in where two men named Schey and Littlefield, bad been working. Thirty men worked all…

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