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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Serious Accident. Run Over by a Cart

The Australian Star · Monday 19 February 1894 · page 6

A man named Neil Johnson, a carter in the employ of Gillham and Co., met with a very serious accident to-day. He wad driving a cart loaded with about a ton of…

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A Boy Drowned

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Monday.— A boy, 6 years of age, named George Wilson, was drowned in a creek at Mount Pleasant to-day…

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The Springwood Fatality. Springwood

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 8

An inquest concerning the death of the young woman, Sarah Harris, who was run over by a goods train at this station on Saturday night last, was hold yesterday…

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A Drag Capsized. Many Persons Injured. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 6

A serious drag accident occurred yesterday. A party of residents of Camberwell were going to a picnic a Fern Tree Gully, when turning a corner of a street the drag…

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Strange Dynamite Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 5

George Emmett, 42, laborer, living at Picton, met with an extremely painful accident on Sunday afternoon, which, it is feared may terminate fatally. He…

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Accident to the Woosung

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 4

The China Navigation Company's steamer Woosung arrrived at Hongkong disabled before the Guthrie left for Sydney. The Woosung strack a rock about 60 miles north of Hongkong, and was escorted by the Kweilin and…

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Dynamite Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 20 February 1894 · page 3

A man named George Emmett, a laborer, was admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday suffering from internal injuries, sustained while watching the blasting of the…

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Another Outrage in Paris. Three Persons Injured--one Fatally

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday, 1 p.m.--An infernal machine was exploded in a Paris hotel last night. Three persons were injured, one so seriously that he subsequently…

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Another Bomb Explosion in Paris. Three Persons Injured. London, Feb. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 7

Another bomb explosion has taken place in Paris. An anarchist hired lodgings in the Rue Jacques, Paris, and left a bomb, which…

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Accident on the Railway Line

Evening News · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 2

LISMORE, Wednesday.— While Kerle and Kerle's the railway contractors, locomotive was proceeding along the line yesterday it was noticed that a tree had been blown across the line at the end of…

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Fatal Railway Accident At Flinders-street Station. MELBOURNE, Tuesday

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 6

A fatal railway accident happened at Flinders-street Station this morning. Three trains with excursionists from Castlemaine discharged their passengers at the station…

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A Drayman's Death. An Exciting Accident

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 2

The City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J. P., held an inquest at Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday on the body of a man named Neil Johnson, who died in the intitution on…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Thomas M'Queen, an old resident of Chewton, was accidentally killed at the Flinders-street railway station to-day. He had arrived by all excursion…

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A Hallway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1894 · page 5

LISMORE, Tuesday.--This morning while Kerle and Korie's locomotive was proceeding along the line, and when within a mile from the end of the section, a tree was noticed to…

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Serious Accident in a Race. Two Jockeys Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A serious accident occurred at the Echuca races to-day, when one of the horses fell and half a dozen tumbled over him. M'Guiness, a jockey,…

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Injured by an Explosion

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 5

William Watson, aged 50, with eight children dependent on him, was near Parramatta on Wednesday morning, wedging out a rock loosened by an explosion which had just occurred, and while…

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Just in Time. a Boy Saved from Drowning

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 3

A lad named Robert Richards, aged 15, had a narrow escape yesterday from being drowned in a bath. It appears that he went into the bathroom of the house of his aunt,…

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Serious Gun Accident

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 3

COONAMBLE, Thursday.— A gun accident happened to a man named Brooks on Tuesday evening by which one of his arms was so shattered as to necessitate amputation above the elbow. He…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 5

LOUTH, Thursday.— A very serious accident, and which may, it is feared, result fatally took place here on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Robert Morrison, of Mount Pleasant, was driving in to…

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Accident to the Havilah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1894 · page 4

The coal hulk Havilah sprang a leak in Payment Bignt on Tuesday. She was full of coal, and was in danger of sinking, but the Sin. centrifugal pump bel aging to the sydney Underwriters' Association was brought into play,…

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