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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

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Accident Through a Vicious Dog

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 4

In the forenoon of Tuesday last as Arthur Blake, groom, was exercising a pair of carriage-horses, the property of Mr. Shepherd of Wheeo, along Grafton-street, a…

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Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 3

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—There was an accident upon the southern railway on Tuesday, by which the guard's van attached to a goods train was injured, as well as a freight truck. Two goods trains were…

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Accident on the Railway Extension

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 4

Thursday morning as [?] the contractors' engine left Goulburn, driving a track of coal before it and having several trucks with railway material behind. In addition, there were two or three gentlemen on the…

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A Serious Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 July 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday last, the wanton carelessness and indifference of a teamster, named G. Puckett, was the cause of a serious, and what might have been a fatal, accident…

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Seventy Pilgrims Drowned

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 4

A dreadful accident has occurred at Judenburg, in the valley of Mur, in Styria. The month of May is the pilgrimages. All over the country processions are got up to…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 4

On Wednesday last the horses of Mr. Mc Millan, a commercial traveller who had been absent from town for some time, were put into Payton's bus, it being thought they were too spirited…

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Dreadful and Fatal Accident to the Rev. James Pillars

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 August 1875 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon Sydney was startled by a report that the Rev. James Pillars, Unitarian minister of this city, had fallen off the rocks at South [?]esd, and was killed. Unfortunately,…

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Accidentally Drowned in a Pot

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 2

THE Western Advocate of Wednesday last contains the report of an inquest held by the district corner (G. Towson, Esq. J.P,) at the house of William George Agland on, the previous…

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Distressing Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 2

ONE of the most distressing accidents which we have been called upon to record for some time occurred on last Saturday morning at Mr. C. Gillespie's tannery at Garroorigang, and terminated fatally within two…

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Fatal Termination of a Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 3

The unfortunate man James Rogers who on Saturday last was crushed between two of the contractors trucks at Mutbilly on the Gunning railway extension and whose leg was amputated as detailed in our last,…

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The Late Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2

AN adjaurned inquest on the body of James Rogers, who mot his death by an accident on the railway works between Goulburn and Gunning, was bold at the hospital yesterday. The following evidence was…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1875 · page 1

THE adjourned inquest on the body of James Rogers, who met his death by an accident on the railway works at Frankfield, on the 4th instant, was held at the Goulburn hospital on Tuesday…

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Fatal Accident.-- Inquest

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 September 1875 · page 2

YESTERDAY an inquest was hold at the District Hospital on the body of John Charles Somers, whose death resulted from injuries sustained by falling from a tree. The following evidence…

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A Crowd of Pilgrims Drowned

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 6 October 1875 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE was received at Madura, on 8th August, of a frightful catastrophe, which befel a party of pilgrims to the Mahalingam shrine, on the Tinnevelly frontier, on the…

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The Frightful Accident by Fire at Wallaroy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1875 · page 2

THE inquiry, into the circumstances attending the melancholy death of Mr. Henry Lee commenced on Monday before J. C. Stanger Esq., the coroner for Bathurst. The following evidence, as reported in…

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Fatal Collision in the Solent

The Burrowa News · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 4

A fatal accident. occurred on the evening of August 18 off the quarantine vessels near Ryde. As She Alberta, royal yacht, Commander Fullerton, was conveying her Majesty and the Court…

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The Frightful Accident by Fire at Wallaroy

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 3

THE inquiry into the circumstances attending the melancholy death of Mr. Henry Leo commenced on Monday before J. G. Stranger Esq., the coroner for Bathurst. The following evidence, as reported in the…

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Fatal Accident at the Niagara Falls

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 2

A sad occurrence, resulting in the death of a lady and gentleman, is reported in the Niagara Falls Register. On August 9 a party. consisting of Mr. Ethelbert Parsons…

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Latal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 3

ON Monday evening, Mr. Betts, coroner held an inquest at Towrang on the body of George Brabham who died the previous night from the effects of a gun-shot wound…

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Roads and Accidents. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 3

SIR,—It is an old saying that " what is every one's business is no one's business." Very many persons fool the inconvenience of bad roads, but few like to call public attention to their condition. Interested…

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