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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1874

52 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Fatal Accident to a Mounted Constable

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 2

WE regret to have to record the death of mounted-constable Finn, recently stationed at Tarcutta. It appears that on Saturday last, constable Finn formed one of the party who escorted the…

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Frightful Accident and Loss of Life at an Election Meeting

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 6

A FRIOIITUL accident happened on Monday night at Bury, in Lancashire, at a crowded meeting of Mr. Phillips's supporters. Ton persons were killed and about fifty injured…

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Fatal Accident at Home Rule

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 July 1874 · page 4

An old an much respected miner named William Kennedy, aged forty-four, met with a fatal accident at about one o'clock on Friday last whilst working in No. 4…

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The Oakworth Collision Case.—committal of the Captain

The Burrowa News · Saturday 15 August 1874 · page 1

WILLIAM EDGAR, late captain of the British ship Oakworth, appeared before Mr. Sturt and a full Bench at the City Police Court on Friday, to answer to a charge of neglecting to save life, in…

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Accidental Death

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 August 1874 · page 4

On Thursday the coroner, Mr. Bette, hold no inquest at Tarlo on the body of James Walter Kelly, an infant aged eight months, son of John Kelly, farmer. It appears that on…

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Accident on the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 September 1874 · page 2

About two o'clock yesterday afternoon the ballast-train was coming up the gradient of 1 in 33 about two miles on the Goulburn side of Sutton Forest. It was loaded with…

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A Team of Horses Drowned

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 3

A TEAM OF HORSES DROWNED.—On Thursday evening last an accident which resulted in the drowning of five horses, occurred between the Dewdrop Inn and Flowerdale, the farm of Mr. W. A…

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Melancholy and Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 4

ABOUT one o'clock on Thursday Mr. William Davies, Mr. R. H. Blatchford, and Walter John Pitty, one of Mr. Davies's employes, left Goulburn for Crookwell in a buggy with pair of horses, Pitty driving…

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Drowning of Mr. Blatchford

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 2

THE district coroner (A. M. Betts Esq.) commenced to hold an inquest on the body of Robert Huxham Blatchford, aged fifty-three, at his late residence, Clifford street, on Saturday afternoon last. As…

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Mail-coach Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1874 · page 2

MAIL-COACH ACCIDENT.—The down mail from Cooma got (so far as the driver's own resources were concerned) inextricably bogged on Thursday night somewhere beyond Micatage. For four hours or…

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The Late Fatal Accident at the Wollondilly

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1874 · page 2

IN our last issue we gave the particulars of a lammentable obedient at Rossi's Crossing over the Wollondily whereby Mr. R. H. Blatchford, an old and more respected resident of this city, lost his life and Mr…

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Accident at the Old Township Crossing of the Wollondilly River

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 16 September 1874 · page 2

About noon yesterday Mr. Thomas Hill of Middle Arm, Tarlo, was bringing a load of hay to Goulburn with a team of sir horses. On reaching the crossing of the Wollondilly at the…

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The Late Fatal Accident in the Wollondilly

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 4

THE inquest on the body of the late Mr. R. H. Blatchford, commenced on the 5th instant, and adjourned in order to enable Messrs. Davies and Pitty (who were both suffering from the effects of the…

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Fatal Collision in the Channel

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 October 1874 · page 4

A COLLISION occured early on the morning of July 28 off Dungeness between the Milbanke, a homeward-bound steamer, and the Hankow, an outward-bound steamer, the…

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Fatal and Distressing Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 November 1874 · page 2

A SAD accident, which terminated fatally, befell a little daughter of Mr. Kearns, of Spring Creek, near Humewood, on Tuesday last. All that can be known of the circumstances of the melancholy…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 4

SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT.—A most shocking and fatal accident occurred last Saturday morning at Hodgkin's brickyards, North Deniliquin, to a man named Robert Hubbard. The deceased, who had…

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Disastrous Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 8

DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—One of the most destructive railway accidents ever known in South Wales happened on August 12 at Bargoed station, on the Rhymney…

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Fatal Accident at the Goulburn Railway-station

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

About five o'clock yesterday afternoon a total accident happened to a young man named James Wickham, shunter at the Goulburn railway-station. It seems that he and another man named…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon the city coroner (A. M. Betts, Esq.) held an inquest touching the death of James Wickham, a shunter on the railway, who was accidentally killed while following his…

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The Late Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 4

ON Wednesday the coroner, Mr. Betts, held an inquest on the body of Mr. James Wickham, chunter at the Goulburn railway-station, who met his death as reported in our issue of Wednesday last. The…

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