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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

2,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 140

Fatalities and Accidents. Suicide of a Mining Manager

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1892 · page 5

A milling manager named James Joseph Sommes, aged 53, residing at 26 Carrington-street, Wynyard-square, committed suicide on Saturday morning by shooting himself in…

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The Railway Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 5

GOULBURN, Monday.--The man who was killed at the railway station on Saturday afternoon has been identified as a son of Walter Haddon. He was an enginedriver…

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Drowned in the Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 5

An inquest was held yesterday morning before the City Coroner, at the Croydon Hotel, Lower George street, touching the death of a man, name unknown, whose body…

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Inquests. Drowned at Bondi

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 5

The decomposed remains of a man were found on Saturday evening floating beneath an overhanging rock at Bondi, near the Aquarium, by a man named Alfred Knowles…

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Accident to a Jockey. Braidwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 5

A jockey named P. Cahill, in schooling Ben Bolt over hurdles, met with a severe accident. The horse fell and rolled over Cahill, breaking his collarbone and four ribs…

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Two Accidents. Forbes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 6

On Thursday last Mr. Patrick Connors was engaged slabbing a well, when two sides of the well gave way, and the unfortunate man was completely jammed in. Luckily…

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Railway Accident. a Young Girl the Victim

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 5

A YOUNG girl named Mary Pexpin was admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital this morning, suffering from a nasty scalp wound and an injury to her back,…

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A Man Fatally Injured

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 5

THE City Coroner was this morning appraised of the death of William Kershaw, a wood and coal dealer, who expired last night at his residence…

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Fatal Cab Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 6

The motor-driver. William White, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday afternoon, died in the institution yesterday. He was knocked down by cab No. 840 near the…

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Railway Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 6

A girl named Mary Maria Textin, 14, if who resides with her parents near the Macdonaldtown Railway Station, was admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital, yesterday morning, suffering…

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Fatal Cart Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 5

A wood and coal dealer named William Kershaw died at his residence, No. 88 Cooper-street, Waterloo, on Tuesday night. About 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, while under the influence of…

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Fatal Cab Accident. The Inquest

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 6

AN inquest was held at the Coroner's Court, No. 2, this morning, before Mr. W. T. Pinhey, Deputy-City Coroner, concerning, the death of William White, the tram…

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The Accident to the Macleay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 6

Satisfactory progress has been made in the operations for floating the steamer Macleay at the Richmond. By a telegram received yesterday news reached here that the pumping had reduced the water in the hold until the vessel was…

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Accidental Fatality

The Australian Star · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 3

THE City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest at Waterloo relative to the death of William Kershaw, a local wood and coal dealer, who, as reported in our first…

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Inquests. Cab Fatality in George-street

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 7

An inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of William White, motor-driver, who died at the Sydney Hospital on Monday afternoon from injuries…

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Drowned in the Murrumbidgee River. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 8

A young man named Frederick H. Burgess, aged about 20 years, residing at North Yanco station, while bathing with some half-dozen companions in the Murrumbidgee River got into a whirlpool and…

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Fatal Cab Accident

Evening News · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 6

The Deputy City Coronor (Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P.) held an inquest at the Coroner's Court, Chancery Square, regarding the death of the tram-driver, William White, who died in the…

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Lismore News. The Annual Show. Painful Accident. LISMORE

The Australian Star · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 5

The Lismore show opens to-day with 1600 entries, and promises to be a gigantic success. The weather was very Sultry yesterday. Steadyrain fell last night, with every…

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Nearly Drowned

Evening News · Friday 11 March 1892 · page 6

A catastrophe nearly happened as the Millie, Mossman's Bay steamer, was passing Cremorne Wednesday. The hat of Mr. Ben Young, the well-known rifle-shot, was knocked off by one of the…

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Found Drowned. An Unknown Woman

The Australian Star · Friday 11 March 1892 · page 5

THE dead body of an unknown woman was found this morning in a creek near the old dam, Botany. The discovery was made by a postman named George Medley at about…

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