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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Accident at Glen Innes. Glen Innes

The Australian Star · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 6

A serious accident occurred to Thomas Bourke yesterday. The wall of a building fell on him, crushing his body dreafully. He was removed to the hospital in a critical…

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Drowning Fatality

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 15

A little lad named Bilson was drowned at Latrobe, under sad circumstances, last week. He bad left his mother's Bide in pursuit of an apple with which he was playing, and which had…

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Accidental Drowning

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 2

Mr. J. C. Woore, City Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry yesterday into the circumstances of tile death of the lad William Walton, who was drowned while…

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Homebush Bay Drowning. Relief Movement

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Alexandria Town Hall on January 10 for the purpose of devising means for the relief of the widows and orphans of the late Messrs. Atkinson…

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Tram and Cab Collision

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 11

A COLLISION occurred at the corner of Riley aud Oxford streets about 6 o'clock last night between a cab and a tram motor. The occupant and driver of the cab, C. A. Kelly…

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Tasmanian News. The Governorship. Sad Drowning Fatality. The Franking of Letters. A Coach Upset. General News. HOBART, January 10. the New Governor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 15

The following dispatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Acting-Governor: "Am carefully considering the representations made in October by the…

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Victorian News, The Revenue Deficiency. Issue of Treasury Bills. Mercantile Bank Affairs. Disputed territory. Sad End to a Holiday. Boating Fatality. General News. MELBOURNE, January 10

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 14

TENDERS FOR TREASURY BONDS. The Treasurer has announced his intention to shortly invite tenders for Treasury bonds to the extent of £750,000 in order to make up…

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Accident in Bathurst-street

Evening News · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 6

A packing case maker named Martin Olswick, living at 92 Cleveland-street, had a narrow escape from a serious accident Friday afternoon. He was driving his horse and cart loaded…

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Buggy Accident

Evening News · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 6

BLANEY Friday.—As Mr. and Mrs. Connell, of Gregbamstown, were driving to Blayney yesterday the horse attached to the buggy bolted and ran the vehicle against a tree. The…

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The Fatal Cart Accident

Evening News · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 6

An inquest was held at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday afternoon on the body of the woman Lavinia Hedger, who died there on Thursday. It was shown from the evidence that…

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The Recent Accident to the Scotch Express

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 1

Our ilustration depicts a terrible railway disaster which occurred to the Scotch express at Manor Farm when, it was running at the rate of a mile per minute, three miles north…

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Fatal Accident at Woolwich

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 81

A FATALITY occurred on the 6th instant at the Atlas Works, Woolwich, to a man named John Moran, aged about 50 years and engaged at the works as an engineer's labourer, and a resident of…

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INQUESTS. Accidentally Killed

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 2

THE City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, held an inquest at Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday afternoon on the body of Lavinia Hughes, who died from injuries received…

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The Recent Railway Accident. the Late James Willoughby, Driver of the Locomotive

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 30

We are indebted to Mesare. Beavis Brothers, photographers, Bathurst, for the port-ait which appeais in this issue of Mr. James Willougnby, the engine driver who was killed in the railway…

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Items From Broken Hill. Silverton Tramway Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 43

Our correspondent, telegraphing on Monday last, January 9, says: The Silverton Tramway Company has been very free from accidents hitherto, considering the enormous traffic, but on…

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Fatal Boating Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 14

On Sunday afternoon, January 8, a fatal boating accident occurred near the Sugar Works on the Lower Yarra. Two men named Thomas Petetsen and Charles Rasinussen, of…

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Yachting Fatality. Three Men Drowned

Evening News · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the yacht Ailsa was upset, in a squall about a mile and a half off Red Bluff, St. Kilda. The owners, two brothers named…

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Yachting Fatality at St. Kilda. Three Men Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clook, the yacht Ailsa upset in a squall about a mile and a half off Red Bluff, St. Kilda. The owners, two brothers named George and Edward Bond,…

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Three Yachtsmen Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Two brothers named Bond, one aged 33, a shopkeeper at Prahran, and married, the other aged 32, employed by Messrs. Craig, Williamson,…

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Disastrous Railway Collision

Evening News · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 4

LONDON, January 14.-A disastrous railway collision has occurred near Chicago. The wrecked carriages took fire.No fewer than 150 passengers were injured, but no…

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