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Accidents, 1893

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Accident to Dr. O'connor

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 3

Dr. Maurice J. O'Connor met with an accident last evening by being thrown from his buggy on the South Head-road. He was returning from the Shaftesbury…

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Accident at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 6

Dr. V. E. Ludlow, whilst on his rounds last night about 7 o'clock, and when near Tighe's Hill, was thrown from his horse and had his collarbone fractured. He was…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Three Lives Lost

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 6

CARRATHOOL, Tuesday.—A lamentable accident by drowning occurred about 7 o'clock last night in the Murrumbidgee, at Groongal, about three miles from Carrathool, when three daughters of…

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Bathing Fatality Near Carrathool. Three Girls Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 5

HAY, Tuesday.--A sad drowning fatality occurred at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Murrumbidgee, three miles from Carrathool. Three daughters, of M r. A. Morrison, named…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 2

The body of a boy was found by Wm. Pickering between 7 and 8 o'clock last evening floating of Snail's Bay, Balmain. The body was identified as that of Frank Wilson, and it was taken out of…

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A Boy Drowned

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 8

A boy named Frank Wilson, 5 years of age, son of Mr. George Wilson, of Phillip- street, Balmain, was last night found drowned in Snails Bay. The body was…

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Three Girls Drowned. Hay

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 5

A sad drowning fatality occurred here on Monday, three daughters of Mr. A. Morrison being drowned in the Murrumbidgee. They went in for a bath whilst coming home…

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The Floods in the North. (By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) the Flood Waters Slowly Receding. Narrow Escape of a Clergyman From Drowning. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 8

The flood waters are subsiding very slowly, and are still on the main street. The Rev. J. M'Pherson, of Maitland, narrowly escaped drowning while crossing Glenugie Creek, eight miles from Grafton…

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Eastern News. Fearful Fall of an Aeronaut. Daring Robbery at a Funeral. Kobe Embezzlement Case. The Ravenna- Chishima Kan Collision-- Finding of the Marine Board

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 8

On January 8, at Sargon, a terrible aeronautic accident occurred, Victor Valazie was the aeronaut. At the time announced, 5.p.m., the balloon shot up…

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The Condition of Affairs in Brisbane. the Brisbane River Rapidly Subsiding. Finding the Bodies of the Drowned. Heavy Deposits of Silt in the River. Thousands of People Still Homeless

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The Government steamer Otter, Captain Henderson, with the portmaster on board, left the city yesterday for Moreton Bay and returned to-day. Since BRISBANE, Tuesday, 4 p.m.--The second flood in the Brisbane River is rapidly subsiding, and is now below the wharves. Sir Samuel Griffith received the following BRISBANE, Tuesday, 9.20 p.m.--Three bodies of victims of the floods were found in the river to day, two of them being those of men, and the other that of a woman. One…

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Accident to Dr. Ludlew

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—An accident happened to Dr. V. Ludlow yesterday evening, about 7 o'clock, while he was going to see a patient near Tighe's Hill. The doctor's horse was going at the…

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The Recent Shipping Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 6

The exact extent of the damage to the steam collier Kelloe has not been definitely ascertained yet, the steamer not having discharged. With regard to the plates of H.M.S. Ringarooma, it was a surprise to some who have…

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Accident to H.m.s. Royalist

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--H.M.S. Royalist left the Railway Pier for Tasmania this morning. She had some difficulty in getting away, a strong westerly wind pressing her…

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Sad Drowning at Balmain

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1893 · page 7

The City Coroner held an inquest yester day at the Sir William Wallace Hotel, Balmain, on the body of the boy Frank Wilson, whose body was found…

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The W. H. Talbot—fatality at Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1893 · page 6

One of the four-masted, straight-pole order of American schooners, of the above name, yesterday arrived from Carman Island, California, with a cargo of salt, consigned to Messrs, Dalgety and Co. The schooner has made a…

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Shipping Disasters. Wreck of the Schooner Daphne. Six Persons Drowned.--only One Survivor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1893 · page 4

BRISBANE Wednesday.--The portmaster to-day received the following telegram from Coxswain Riley, dated Inskip Point February 14, 5.30 p.m. :--…

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Peculiar Fatality

Evening News · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

A man named Thomas Balfour, aged 33 years, a blacksmith by trade, died in the St. Vincent's Hospital on Monday evening. On January 25, deceased, who was employed…

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Fatality in Hungary. a Ballroom on Fire--seventeen Persons Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--A terrible fatality is reported from Buda-Pesth, in Hungary. During the carnival festivities a cask of petroleum exploded beneath a crowded…

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Disaster in Hungary. Explosion of Petroleum. Thirty-nine Dancers Injured London, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 5

A number of children, while playing in a building in a town in Hungary, set fire to a cask of petroleum which they found there. The oil exploded, igniting the…

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Accident to the Ionic

Evening News · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

LONDON, February 16.—The Tasmanian line steamer, Ionic, from London January 19, for Hobart, &c., has been towed into Capetown with a broken shaft…

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