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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

2,895 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 145

Serious Accident to Stationmaster. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Murrurundi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1891 · page 7

An accident of a most serious nature happened at Doughboy Hollow on Tuesday afternoon to Mr. Dunbar, railway station-master of that place. It appears that Mr. Dunbar was on…

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The Utopia Disaster. Collision with a Warship. Over 500 Passengers Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Further details have been received of the sinking of an emigrant steamer in the Bay of Gibraltar. The steamship Utopia, of the Anchor line,…

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Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 4

Yesterday morning the dead body of a man was found floating in the water at Lavonder Bay, and was recovered by the water police and removed to the North Sydney Morg[?]e, Death…

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Casualties. Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 6

Yesterday morning the Water Police, acting on information received, went in their steam launch to Lavender Bay, and found there floating near the limekilns the body of a man, which was afterwards…

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Inquest. the Strange Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday at 83 Kent-street on the body of an old man named Robert Lawton Eames, who on Wednesday morning was found dead in his bed by his wife. Deceased lived at 83…

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Drowned in the Harbor

Evening News · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 5

At about half-past 9 a.m. on Thursday, the water police received a telephone message from North Shore to the effect that the body of a man was floating in the water at Lavender Bay…

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Country. Fatalities. the Nowra Boating Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 5

NOWRA, Thursday.--The body of Winifred Griffiths, the third victim of the boating disaster at Terara, was not recovered till a late hour on Tuesday night, when it was brought…

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Wreck of the Utopia. the Roll Call. Five Hundred and Seventy Drowned. LONDON, March 20

The Australian Star · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 6

In connection with the sinking of the emigrant ship Utopia off Gibraltar five minutes after the collision with the British warship Rodney, it now transpires that no…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 6

John White and Wm. Harris have been committed for trial at Wilcannia Quarter Sessions, by the Tibooburra Bench, for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Samuel Spinkett…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 8

A SAD accident occurred in Parramatta on Tuesday afternoon when a child named Ellrich, residing with his parents in Palmer-street, lost his life by…

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Sad Boating Fatality. Three Young Girls Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 11

NOWRA, Tuesday.—A party of five young girls, went out on the Shoalhaven River in a small boat on March 16, and when only a short distance from the shore the boat capsized. The…

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The Strange Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 7

The inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of the man Robert Lawton Eames who was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning by his wife, was continued by the City Coroner yesterday,…

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Supposed Boating Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--Mr. J. W. Cran, proprietor of the Queen's Hotel, and Mr. Pitt, manager of the United Insurance, went to Rattlesnake Island in a sailing boat on Sunday…

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Inquests. Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 7

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Croydon Hotel yesterday on the body of the man John Quinlan, who was found drowned in Lavender Bay on Thursday morning. The only evidence elicited related to the finding of…

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Shocking Boating Fatality. Nowra

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 669

Last evening a shocking boat accident happened at Terara Wharf, two miles down the Schoalhaven River from Nowra, whereby three young girls were drowned, and two others were rescued with difficulty. It seems…

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The Disastrous Collision at Sea. the Sinking of the Utopia. Arrest of the Captain

Evening News · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 4

LONDON, March 20.—The captain of the immigrant steamship Utopia, which foundered in the Bay of Gibraltar after having teen in collision with H.M.S. Anson, has…

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Wreck of the Utopia. the Roll Call. Five Hundred and Seventy Drowned. LONDON, March 20

The Australian Star · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 6

In connection with the sinking of the emigrant ship. Utopia off Gibraltar five minutes after the collision with the British warship Rodney, it now transpires that no…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 5

A painful accident happened to Master Sydney Rickards, the only son of Mr. Harry Rickards, the popular artiste, on Thursday. The little fellow was riding a tricycle, when a portion of…

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The Accident to the Port Jackson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 8

The Port Jackson (s.), previously reported as having run ashore at Cape Elba, has been floated, and has arrived at Suez. [The latter portion of the message has been mutilated in transmission, but appears to mean that a survey…

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[?] Kurrara--accident at Port Fairy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 7

[?] Kurrara, with a cargo of pota[?] Warrnambool, arrived last even[?] at John See and Co.'s Wharf. [?] took a carge of coal to Port Fairy…

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