Inquest. the Railway Accident
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 6
The City Coroner held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, relative to the death of the young man Thomas Joseph Finn. 19 years of age, who was killed by a tr[?]n on Saturday afternoon at the…
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The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 3
WAGGA WAGGA, Monday. -- Walter O'Byrne, 14, son of Mr. G. O'Byrne, inspector of public schools, while playing with other boys on the turntable at the railway station,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fatal gun accident occurred on Sunday evening at Sheppartoa. Four youths went out on a fishing and shooting expedition, when one of them named Ikerangill,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 6
An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday into the circumstances connected with the death of Thomas Joseph Finn (19), porter employed at the Stanmore…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 6
A YOUNG man named Thomas M' Callum was drowned in Darling Harbor this morning under somewhat peculiar circumstances He was endeavoring to get aboard the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 6
At the inquest on Tuesday on the body of Louis Strom, a seaman, drowned off Tuross Heads by a boat capsizing, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned…
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Referee · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 1
Never in the history of the turf of New South Wales have three accidents so nearly alike happened in three successive races as those on Saturday last at…
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Referee · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 1
Never in the history of the turf of New South Wales have three accidents so nearly alike happened in three successive races as those on Saturday last at…
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Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 5
Yesterday a man was seen walking along the Pyrmont Bridge, and on reaching the steamer Coorang, which is moored alongside the bridge, he was observed trying to get aboard. There were…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 3
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-- A crane employee named Win. Pritchard was injured internally yesterday through a chain falling on him while at work. He now lies at the…
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Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 6
While a patient named John Waters, 85 years old, was being conveyed from Laggan to the Goulburn Hospital in a buggy his hat blew off, and in trying to catch it he overbalanced himself,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 5
A serious railway accident occurred to-night at the Turgamah railway station. A mixed train from Benalla arrived at 11.30 p.m., and when entering the station on crossing the points the first…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 6
At Buccavumbi a lad named Brown, accompanied by a half-caste, went shooting birds for bait for fishing. His prolonged absence caused a search to be made…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 5
MORUYA, Wednesday.--On Monday evening, a seaman named Louis Strone was drowned through the capsizing of a boat while attempting to land goods from the steamer Meeinderry,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--At Warrnambool to-day, the engine of thE 2,80 passenger train to Melbourne ran off the line. The permanent way was damaged, bat no injury was done to…
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Evening News · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 6
A warehouseman named F. H. Brown, 84, living at Manly, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Thursday with a broken leg, the result of an accident…
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Evening News · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 6
BROKEN HELL, Friday.—A fatal accident happened at the North Mine, between 12 and 1 o'clock on Thursday morning, to a young man named Abred Polgreen, aged 21 years. The crossbar, to which the boring…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 5
AUCKLAND, Thursday.--Mr. Mellish, a solicitor, residing at Palmerston North, to-day accidentally shot himself dead…
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Evening News · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 5
An action was brought before Judge Wilkinson and a jury of four in No. 1 District Court to-day, by Archibald Dickson, to recover from Frederick Lemm, £200 for injuries sustained through…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 422
A collision at sea is reported by the master of the ship Agnes Oswald, which arrived here from Liverpool on Monday, and the disaster involved a serious loss of life. Captain Nicol says that on the…
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