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Accidents, 1894

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Accidents

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 4

The following cases have been treated, but not admitted, at Price Alfred Hospital since Saturday. Theo. Dubber, Constitution-road, Marrickville,…

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The Egmont and Aldinga Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

The Lamont went to Mort's Dock yesterday, and will be surveyed at 10 a.m. to-day to find the leak that started when she touched coming out of Wollongong. It is stated that she leaked at the rate of 7 in. per hour, but the Sydney…

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Playing with Firearms. An Unfortunate Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 3

A painful shooting accident occurred on Monday night in the bar of Smith's Prospect Inn, Prospect. A man named Frank Humby, who has been lodging…

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Remarkable Shooting Accident. Once More "He Didn't Know It Was Loaded."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 4

An extraordinary shooting accident occurred at the Prospect Inn, Prospect, on Monday evening about 9 o'clock. A man named Frank Humby, aged 45, and a few…

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A Young Woman Drowned

Evening News · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.— A young woman named Lamotte was drowned in the Hunter River, near the waterworks at West Maitland this morning. It is supposed that she went to…

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Drowned in the Hunter

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--A drowning fatality occurred in the Hunter River to-day. A young woman named Elizabeth Lamotte, aged 20, went to the river to get…

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Star's Special Cables Railway Disaster. Collision in France. Three Passengers Killed Ten Others Badly injured. A Case of Goods Falls From a Train -- A Train Blocked -- And a Second Train Collides. London, February 7

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

Telegrams from Paris give particulars of a remarkable railway disaster which has occurred near Compiegne, in the north of France. By some…

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The Burglary. Condition of Injured Constables. Pensions for Police. The Report from Melbourne -- Questions in Parliament

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

There are no new developments in connection with the Bridge-street burglary this morning. Constables Alford and Bowden are reported to bo doing well at…

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Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 5

Senior constable Holmes reported in the City Coroner this morning that about 7 o'clock Senior constable Edwards, of the water police, recovered the body of a man…

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Drowned in the Harbor

Evening News · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 4

About 7 o'clock this morning the body of an unknown man was found floating in the water near Dawe's Point. The water police were communicated with, and the body was taken from the…

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Accident in the Harbor

Evening News · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 6

An accident of a most unusual character, bat fortunately without any serious results, happened in the harbor yesterday. As the Gulf of Ancud, in charge of Captain Currie, was steaming up to the…

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Accident on Shipboard

The Australian Star · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 5

Hans Neilsen, a seaman, 21 years of ago and a native of Norway, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this morning, having met with a serious accident. Neilsen,…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 5
Also in The Australian Star

The body of the old man found floating in the water near Dawes's Point on Friday morning has been identified by the Soup Kitchen people as that of Thomas Wilson. He was 50 years…

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Attending to the Injured

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 284

Constables Kerswell and M'Arthur and the officers who had been engaged in making the arrests went to the assistance of their wounded comrades, and picked them up at various points. They placed the…

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Sensational Suicide. Cut His Throat and Drowned Himself

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 5

A sensational suicide took place at Rozelle Bay early this morning. William Donnelly, who residue at 72 Rosser-street, Balmain, while in the vicinity of the jetty…

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The Bridge-street Burglary. the Injured Officers

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 5

Constable Lyons was on night duty at the Lands Office at the time of the commencement of the affray. He was standing at the corner of the large building nearest…

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Murderous Affray with Burglars. Five Police Officers Injured

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 284

About a quarter past 2 o'clock on the morning of February 1 a serious affray took place in Bridge-street between three police constables and three burglars, with the result that two constables were taken…

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French and English in Africa Collision Between Forces. a Fight at Sierra Leone

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 11

LONDON, February 5.— The GLOBE publishes a report from Sierra Leone that the French troops have fired on a party of the British frontier police and killed five of…

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Fire on the Dorunda. Great Damage to Cargo. Wool and Hides Jettisoned. One Man Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 12

THURSDAY ISLAND, Tuesday.— Captain Prentice, of the steamer Duke of Argyle, from London, reports that a serious fire was burning on the British India Company's steamer Dorunda,…

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