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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1862

6 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

British and Foreign Extracts Appalling Colliery Accident.--death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons

The Yass Courier · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 4

WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a…

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Collision at Sea.—loss of the Ship Tubal Cain and Crew

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 September 1862 · page 3

(From the Melbourne Argus, September 3.) EARLY yesterday morning, intelligence was received at Williamstown of a collision which took place on the 24th August, between the ship Constance, of…

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Thr[?]te Case of Accident by Fire. -- Coroner's Inquest

The Yass Courier · Saturday 11 October 1862 · page 2

ON Wednesday last, an inquest was held in the committee-room of the District Hospital before Dr. Blake, the district coroner, and a jury of twelve, on the body of Mary…

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Italy. the Garibaldian Expedition -- Collision with the Royal Troops -- Capture of Garibaldi

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 19 November 1862 · page 4

The great news from Italy, Garibaldi's captures, casts all other continental incidents of the month into the shade. Our August number contained a…

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Disastrous Collision in the Channel—loss of Sixteen Lives

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 22 November 1862 · page 4

THE following extract is quoted by the Empire from a Plymouth paper of the 16th August, announcing a collision in the English Channel a few days previously ; it will be read…

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Dreadful Railway Accident.--

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 24 December 1862 · page 4

One of the most disastrous railway accidents that have ever occurred in Scotland took place on October 13th, near Winchburgh, on the Edinburgh and…

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