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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1876

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Sad and Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1876 · page 2

Yesterday evening a young man named John Clarke, aged about twenty-two, son employed as ironmonger in the store of Messrs. Davies, Alexander, and Co., went to bathe…

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Melancholy Death by Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1876 · page 2

AT noon yesterday an inquest was held at the Salutation Inn before the district coroner (A. M. Betts Esq.) on the body of John Clarke, aged 21, who was drowned in the Mulwarree on Tuesday…

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The Late Case of Drowning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 4

IN our last issue we gave the particulars of a melancholy case of drowning, Mr. John Alexander Clarke of this town being the victim. At the time of writing the body had not been found; but it was…

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Fatal Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1876 · page 3

ON Wednesday evening word was brought into that an accident had occurred on the Grenfell rond by which a man named Dillon had lost his life and that his wife…

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Fatal Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1876 · page 2

As accident took place on Saturday morning at Nowlan’s Lagoon, about five miles from Nelson’s. Sandy Creek saw mills, by which a man named Henry Verey, for many years a…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 January 1876 · page 4

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.—Yesterday morning a fatal accident occurred on the railway near the Parramatta Junction. towards Sydney, by which two labourers named Kemp and Lyons…

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Fatal Gun Accident at Jerilderie

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1876 · page 3

Another illustration of the danger of allowing children to obtain possession of firearms, occured at Jerilderie on the 19th instant, when a boy named Charles…

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Coroner’s Inquest. a Mother and Child Drowned

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 February 1876 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday, at the dwelling-house of J. P. Williams, at Mimmegong, by the Coroner and a jury of five, touching the death of Winefred and John Robert Williams…

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Terrible Accident. Explosion of Kerosene

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 February 1876 · page 2

WE in Bathurst have fortunately been, to a great [?]tentexempt from those frightful catastrophes which have been more frequent in some other places through the explosion of kerosene…

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Fatal and Serious Accidents at Burrowa

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 February 1876 · page 2

FEBRUARY 21.-- An accident of a most frightful nature happened yesterday to the third son of Mr. H. Scott, J.P. The little fellow, whose age is nine years, was sent with a way-bill after a…

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Collision and Loss of Twenty- Two Lives

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 4

THE correspondent of the London Daily Telegraphy says— Another great maritime disaster has occurred in St. George’s Channel, invoking…

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Collision and Loss of Twenty-two Lives

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 4

The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says:— Another great maritime disaster has occurred in St. George's Channel, involving…

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Fearful Accident in Switzerland

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 4

The following (says the Home News of 7th January) are the details of the frightful accident at a Christmas festival in Switzerland. The scene of the accident was the…

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A Turret-ship in Collision

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1876 · page 2

The Monarch, turret-ship, Captain W. A. Hood, put into Plymouth Sound on November 28, having been in collision with a Norwegian…

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Accidental Poisoning at Urana

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 4

THE following is the evidence, on reported in the Wagga Wagga Express, taken at the coroner's inquest held at Coonong on Wednesday upon the body of Mr. Surveyor Blunt. We append the evidence…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon a Chinaman named Ab Wing, employed at Mr. Teece's tannory, was feeding a bark-mill there when his right arm got drawn into the machinery. He called out and the…

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Fatal Boat Accident on the Nile

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 4

SOME details of this terrible disaster are given in a letter to the Times, dated Alexandra, January 1. The writer says:— ‘It appears that Mr. Russell Gurney…

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Magisterial Inquiry.—dreadful Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 4

A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at Coonong on Wednesday touching the death of Mr. Blunt, surveyor,- Mr. W. H. Armstrong being the presiding magistrate. The…

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Balloon Accident Near Paris

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 4

The following are the particulars of a recent balloon accident near Paris:— The military committee of aeronauts made an ascent from the from the gasworks at La…

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Fatal Accident at Woodhouselee

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1876 · page 2

THE coroner, Mr. A. M. Betts, held an inquest on Sunday, at the Woodhouselee Hotel, touching the death of Charles Coleman. Alexander Mc Laughlin, farmer, residing at…

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