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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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The City Water Supply. the Accident to the Aqueduct

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 6

From inquiries of the authorities in town yesterday it appears that good progress is being made in the direction of effecting temporary arrangements in the water supply…

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Serious Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A serious tram accident occurred this morning on the line connecting Sandringham with Beaumaris. The car took up the full complement of…

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Curious Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 13

Several men were engaged by the Electric Light Company in putting up a new wire for a light in Collins-street on December 30, when a young man named Joseph Stanley,…

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Drowning Fatalities

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 2

West Mattland, Monday.—Two sad deaths by drowning occurred in Maitland yesterday. The first was that of James Hendry, a fine young man of 23 yean of age, who went to bathe in the…

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Bathing Fatality

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

THE City Coroner this morning received the report of the drowning at Croydon of a youth named Stewart Taylor. The deceased, accompanied by another lad named Percy…

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The Country. a Bathing Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday. -- Another death by drowning, the third during 18 months, occurred at The Falls, Hunter River, this morning. Two young men,…

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Collision off the Welsh Coast

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 4

London, January 9.—The four-masted barque Mashona, 2350 tons, bound from Cardiff to Port Pirie, South. Australia, has been in collision with the iron screw steamer…

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Special Cables. From the Herald's London Correspondents. Collision Off the Welsh Coast. the Barque Mashona Badly Damaged. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 7

The four-mosted barque Mashona, 2350 tons, bound from Cardiff to Port Pirie, South Australia, has been in collision with the iron screw steamer chatsworth, 966 tons,…

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Serious Buggy Accident

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 3
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Young, Monday.—An accident of a serious character occurred on Friday night to Mr. John Murray, manager for Mr. J. M. Mackinnon, M.L.A. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon he…

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Serious Accident

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

A man whose name is at present unknown was taken to the Sydney Hospital on Friday evening in an unconscious condition, and seriously injured. He was found by Constable Mitchell…

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Fatal Accident

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 2

Arthur Mansell, 13, lately residing with his parents at Southern-street, Auburn, met his death in a peculiar manner on Saturday. He was riding on a trolly which was conveying pipes from Potts…

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Tram Accidents. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 4

Sir,—Travellers by trams are daily witnesses of the dangerous practice, common amongst newspaper vendors, of jumping on and off the platforms whilst trams are in motion. Not long since I was myself an…

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Serious Buggy Accident Near Young. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 7

A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon on Mr J. A M'Kinnon'B Momagong station. Early in the morning Mr. J. H. Murray, who manages the outside business for Messrs. J. A. M'Kinnon and Co.,…

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The Vailele—accident to the Captain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 6

Yesterday the locally owned brigantine Vailele, formerly the Forest King, arrived from the Solomon Islands after a smart round trip Captain Woodhouse is in command, and his friends will regret to hear that he has met with a nasty…

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The Accident to the Aqueduct

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 4

By working night and day the gang of men under the chief inspector of harbors and rivers mode good progress with the work of laying the pipes and constructing the two…

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The Tramway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1892 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Mrs. Crawford and Miss Bennett, who were injured on Friday at Halfmoon Bay by the accident on the Beaumaris tramline, are recovering. The…

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Bathing Fatality

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 6

THE City Coroner this morning received the report of the drowning at Croydon of a youth named Stewart Taylor. The deceased, accompanied by another lad named Percy…

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Drowned While Bathing

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 6

A. case of drowning occurred at Croydon on Sunday afternoon, whereby a youth named Stewart Taylor lost his life. At about a quarter past 2 o'clock in the afternoon deceased, in…

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The Fatality at Prospect

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

An inquest was held before the Parramatta Coroner (Mr. J. E. Bowden) yesterday, touching the death of the boy Herbert Mansell, who died in the Parramatta Hospital…

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