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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1874

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Serious Railway Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1874 · page 8

A COLLISION, arising from shunting in front of an express train, occurred on the 11th November on the North-Eastern Railway at Headingly, near Leeds, by which twenty…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1874 · page 2

AN inquest was held before the coroner (A. M. Betts Esq.) and a jury on Friday, 30th instant, at Mr. Bean’s Frankfield Inn, near Gunning, on the body of Frederick Hilman Hornbrook, then and…

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Sad Case of Drowning at Prince's Bridge

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 2

A sad case, in which a man was drowned in trying to save the life of a young woman, and in which two other men narrowly escaped drowning, occurred at…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1874 · page 2

On Saturday last a little girl aged about twelve, daughter of Mr. John F. Kenny of Kenny's Point, Lake George, was climbing on a tence, when she fell and dislocated her left elbow…

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Terrible Collision at Sea

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 2

PAPERS to hand by the Tartar, steamship, up to date 5th December, have been received at Melbourne. News has boon received of one of the…

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Terrible Collision at Sea. Two Hundred and Twenty-six Lives Lost

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 February 1874 · page 4

PAPERS to hand by the Tartar steamship, up to date 5th December, have been received at Melbourne. News has been received of one of the most…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 February 1874 · page 2

ACCIDENTS.—On Sunday last a young man named Cottington, in the employ of MR. Teece of this city, accidentally put his hand through a pane of glass at Futton's public-house, Run of Water, by which he…

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Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 4

Last Saturday William Quinn, aged fourteen, residing with his parents at Chatsbury, was going to Taralga on horseback, and when within about a mile of the town, the animal he was…

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The Late Fatal Boat Accident. (To the Editor of the Empire.)

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1874 · page 3

SIR,—There is about to be closed a subscription list, in aid of a widow named Jesson, poor, feeble, and unprovided for, and of her lour delicate orphan girls, all children of tender age, to which I desire to…

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Accident on the Thames

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1874 · page 4

THE river bank at West Moulsey, which is a little more than a mile distant from Hampton Court Bridge was the scene of excitement on December 20, resulting from another of…

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Fatal Accident at Binalong

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 March 1874 · page 2

A MAGISTERIAL enquiry was held before Mr. John Sedley Futter, at Fairford, near Binalong, on the 7th March, 1874, on the body of Thomas Partington, deceased, when the following evidence…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 March 1874 · page 2

On Saturday morning two man named Daniel Davidson and Peter Long, employed as labourers at the Church of England schoolroom now in course of erection in Bourke-street, were…

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Accidental Drowning Near Woolgarlo

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 2

ON Sunday last the District Coroner (Dr. Blake) held an inquest at the Globe Hotel, Yass, on the body of Rosina Parry, who was. drowned near Woolgarle on Friday last. The following evidence…

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Local and General. Accident From the Careless Use of Firearms

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 2

ON Sunday last a serious accident befel a young lad named Field, when spending the afternoon near Bange Creek, at the homestead of the Daltons, neighbours of his parents. It seems he was…

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Fatal Accident at Jordan's Crossing

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 3

We regret to have to record the death by accident of Edward, third son of Mr. E. Freeman of the above locality. The deceased was a lad of some thirteen…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 April 1874 · page 3

An accident occurred on Tuesday at the South Creek railway-station by which one of the guards of the railway department named William Latton lost his life. It…

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Fatal Coach Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at the Yass District Hospital, Dr. Blake, the District Coroner, held an inquest upon the body of James Raeside, who died in that establishment on Sunday last…

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Serious Mail Coach Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 May 1874 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, the Southern mail, on its way from Goulburn to Yass, met with a most serious accident about six miles from Yass. News of the disaster reached Yass about half-past eleven in…

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Serious Mail-coach Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 4

ON Tuesday last the southern mail on its way from Goulburn to Yass met with a most serious accident about six miles from Yass. News of the disaster. reached Yass about half-past eleven in the forenoon,…

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Fatal Coach Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 3

ON Monday, at the Yass district hospital, Dr. Blake, district coroner, held an inquest on the body of James Raeside, who died in that establishment on Sunday last…

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