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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1866

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

Collision with the Blacks in the Far North

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1866 · page 7

MANY of our readers are aware that on Friday morning last the news of the recent collision with the blacks in the Far North formed a topic of conversation in town, and…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1866 · page 8

The New York Times presents the story of the accidents which have occurred in the United States during the five months since the close of the war. The…

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Foundering of Steamship London in Bay of Biscay. 220 Drowned, Only Nineteen Saved

The Yass Courier · Saturday 17 March 1866 · page 2

THE London, Captain Martin, for Melbourne, left Gravesend on the 30th December, put into St. Helen's Road's, owing to a heavy gale, on the 1st January: left there on 2nd January: arrived at…

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Sad Accident at Lucknow, and Inquest

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 4

On Monday evening the community of Lucknow were thrown into a state of excitement by the report of an accident in the “Morning Star Claim.” Report, that…

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Wrecks at Newcastle With loss of Life, Wreck of the Steamer Cawarra.— Only One Person Saved. Wreck of the Schooner Caroline, or Ino.—all Bands Lost. Foundering- of the Schooner Sea Gull.—loss of All Hands. Wreck of the William Watson.—two . Persons Drowned. Strandig of the Schooner Lismore.— Chew Saved by Meams of the Bocket Apparatus. Total Wrick of the Snesehode Rick Dhu.—all He Saved

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 4

When the news reached Sydney on Thursday morning of the total wreek of the A. S. N. Company's steamer Cawarra, bound for Brisbane and Rockhapton, It was…

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Accidental Explosion of Blasting Powder at Mac's Reef.—two Men Killed

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 August 1866 · page 3

QUITE a gloom has been thrown over the entire community of this district by tidings which reached town on Saturday morning last to the effect that Mr. Dennis Keefe and Mr. Charles Loftus had been Killed…

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A Railway Accident in Bohemia

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 December 1866 · page 8

How long a time passed I cannot tell; but so far as I could judge, about half-past two I was roused by a sort of tremor— I can call it by no other word— running through the…

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