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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Fatal Accident. a Railway Porter Killed. Almost Cut in Two

Evening News · Monday 11 February 1895 · page 6

A railway porter named John Hallam was killed at Strathfield Station on Sunday evening. Deceased was collecting tickets on the 5.55 p.m. train from…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1895 · page 5

A railway porter named John Allen was killed about 6 o'clock last evening at Strathfield by being run over by a train. The deceased had just finished collecting…

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Fatalities and Accidents. a Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

About 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon a body was seen floating in the water close to Dibbs Wharf. The body was subsequently identified as that of Henry Burnes, a young lad'who…

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A Boating Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

HOBART. Monday.--A boating fatality occurred to-day. Three men were out sailing, when their craft capsized. They clung to the keel, but one of them named…

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The Botany Boating Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

The water police were busy all day yesterday dragging for the bodies of the two young men John Lawson and Frank Morrison, who were drowned by the capsizing of a boat on…

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Two Boys Drowned. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

Two lads, named Thomas and Ernest Everett, were drowned in a dam near Koolunga on Saturday. They were bathing and got out of their depth…

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Drowned From a Barque. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

Henry Hardiman Leighton Bailey, able seaman, who was washed overboard from the barque Sarah S. Ridgeway, from Newcastle to Singapore, was a son of Leighton…

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George's River Accident. Dragging for the Bodies

Evening News · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 3

A number of the water police were engaged all. yesterday in dragging for the bodies of the two youths drowned in George's River the previous day…

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Accidents

Evening News · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6
Also in The Australian Star

A stevedore named William Newton, a years of age, residing at 68 Pyrmoth Bridge-road, was taken to the Sydney Hospital yesterday evening suffering from…

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Murder or Accident ? a Railway Mystery. Supposed Sydney Man's Death

Evening News · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

LONDON, February ll.-An inquest was held to-day before the coroner for the South-eastern district upon the body of Edward John Ellis, a…

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The Railway Accident. the Inquest

Evening News · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 4

The City Coroner held an inquest at South Sydney Morgue to-day on the death of a railway porter named John Allen, Who ires lolled by a train at Strathfield…

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Accident at Sea. Steamer Disabled. The Glaucus's Shaft Broken

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

A telegram received by the Government from Eden this morning states:--"The steamer Bullarre, with disabled steamer Galucus in tow arrived at 7 a.m. with latter's…

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Accidents at Tamworth. Tamworth

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

Two buggy accidents happened here yesterday. Mr. O. R. Upjohn and some friends were out driving, and coming home when a few miles out they had to come…

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Accident to a Gunner. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

The Minister for Defence has ordered a strict inquiry into the accident to Gunner Richardson at the military tattoo. The injured man is still in the hospital. Although…

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Accidents on Ships

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 6

Ralph Stone Lovely, 27, a wool storeman, residing at the City Night Refuge, was admitted to Sydney Hospital this morning suffering from injuries to the thigh caused…

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Nearly Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1895 · page 3

MUDGEE, February 13.-Three boys were fishing at Lawson's Creek on Monday,' when one of the party accidentally slipped into the water and disappeared. As he…

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Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 February 1895 · page 3

Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at the Captain Cook Hotel, Miller's Point, yesterday afternoon on the body of a child named Henry Byrnes, who was…

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Rescue From Drowning. Mudgee

The Australian Star · Wednesday 13 February 1895 · page 5

Alfred Rope, a youth who has the reputation of being a strong swimmer, cams within a close thing of death on Sunday. Rope went down to…

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The Drowning Case at Miller's Point

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1895 · page 5

A magisterial Inquiry was held yesterday by the City Coroner touching the death of the boy Henry Byrnes, who so body was found alongside Dibbs's Wharf, at Miller's…

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