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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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COUNTRY. Fatal Accident

The Australian Star · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 6

NOWRA A, Monday.--A fatal accident occurred at Doolan's blue-metal quarry, Terara, on Friday evening. A man named W. Eary, residing in Nowra, was dislodging…

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Inquests. Fatal Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 3

The man, William Reeves, who was injured through falling under a train at Clyde on Thursday evening while attempting to board it as it was in motion, died in the Parramatta…

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The Accident at Darling Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 3

An inquest was held on Saturday at the Coroners Court, Chancery-square, into the circumstances connected with the death of a man named Robert Bisson, who died in the…

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Fatal Quarry Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 5

NOWRA, Saturday.--A fatal accident happened yesterday to a man named James Tierney, employed by Mr. Thomas Dolan, of the Worramee blue metal quarries. During the…

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Accident to the Steamer Lubra

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The steamer Lubra, which left Newcastle at 6 o'clock last evening, nearly got ashore. About 8 o'clock two guns went off and two rockets were fired in the…

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Railway Accident. Destruction of Rolling Stock

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A disastrous railway accident happened near Drouin, on the Gippsland line, on Saturday night. A milk special with 20 trucks laden with timber, wool and…

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Collision Between Vessels

The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The schooner Swordfish collided with the Linnie Burrill yesterday morning when sailing into port, doing some slight damage to herself…

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Disastrous Collision. 13 Lives Lost

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 4

LoNDoN, January 12.—A. disastrous collision lias taken place between two steamers in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, 13 lives being lost…

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Fatality in a Quarry. a Laborer's Terrible Death. KIAMA

The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred at Nowra to a man named James Tierney, employed by Mr. Thomas Dolan, of Worragee, on Friday at the blue metal quarries. During the…

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Rescue of a Child From Drowning. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

Last week a lad named Wm. Donohue, 13 years of ago, rescued a child named Dwyer, 6 years old, from drowning in the River Tumut, near where M'Farlane's Creek enters it, The child was playing; on the bank…

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Collision in the Firth of Forth. Thirteen Lives Lost. [By Cable.] (From Our Correpspondent.) London, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

A disastrous collision hus taken place between two steamers in the Firth of Forth. The details of the collision are not yet to hand, but it is known that 13 lives…

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Accidents and Offences

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 6

A young man named Charles Dalgleish, while driving into South Warragul (Vic), on Monday morning, was thrown from his cart, and his clothes becoming entangled in the wheels he was…

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Serious Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

While a bricklayer named John Noble, age 27, residing at Waverley, and employed on the new buildings now being erected for the Australian Club in Macquarie-street, was walking…

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Accident to a Steamer

The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday. --During the voyage to Sydney, on Saturday evening, the Hunter River Co.'s steamer Lubra sustained an accident to her machinery. The captain…

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Gun Accident. a Girl Accidentally Shot. ALBURY

The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 6

A young woman named Lester, residing at Howlong with her stepfather, has been brought in for medical treatment, suffering from a gunshot wound. It seems that…

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The Railway Strike. Accidents on the Lines. London, January 12

The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

Affairs in with the railway strike in Scotland are still unchanged, the men being as determined as ever to gain their demand for shorter hours of…

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The Drouin Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An inspector who visited the scene of Saturday's railway accident near Drouin attributes the cause of the accident to Driver Pitt breaking away from the…

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The Railway Strike. Further Accidents. Blocking the Supply of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--There is no change in the strike of the employes on the Scottish railways. The Seamen' Union of Great Britain…

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A Drowning Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The son of Mr. Smith, of the Narrucoorte Hotel,went cray-fishing in the creek at the back of the hotel this evening. He was missed some time afterwards, when search…

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Accidentally Drowned at Auburn

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last an inquest was held by Mr. R. H Mathews, J.P., at the Farriers’ Arms Hotel, Auburn, on the body of a man named Robert White…

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