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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1876

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Appalling Accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 2

On March 6 an appalling railroad accident, involving a heavy loss of life, occurred at the narrow passage bridge in Shenandoahj country, nearly…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 24 May 1876 · page 4

THE Progress de[?] Est, a paper published in Alsace, reports that a dreadful railway accident took place on the ;morning of the 13th March, to a slow train leaving Mulhouse for…

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A Mother Accidentally Shot by Her Son. (from the Maitland Mercury.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1876 · page 4

A MAGISTERIAL enquiry was held on Friday, May 26, at Mr. Thomas Hassell’s residency Apple Tree Flat, Muswellbrook, before F. W. Thrum, Esq., J.P., touching the death of Mary Ann Hassell,…

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Dreadful Accident at a Menagebie

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 June 1876 · page 4

AN exciting incident occurred the other evening at the exhibition of Edmond’s (late Wombwell’s) Menagerie at Galashiels. A great crowd of people were pressing in front…

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Terrible Railway Accident in America

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 June 1876 · page 4

A DESPATCH from Poughkeepsie, published by the New York journals, states that a terrible railway accident has occurred to an express train. On nearing the little [?]amlet…

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Accident to a Wesleyan Minister

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 2

WE gather from the Times that there was some sensation in Murrurundi on Sunday se’nnight, when the Rev. Mr. Danne, Wesleyan minister of that town, -was missing from his pulpit. It…

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Local and General. Fatal Accident. -- Inquest

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 August 1876 · page 2

AN inquest was held at the Salutation Inn, Yass, on Friday last, before the district coronor (Dr. Blake) and a jury, touching the death of a person named Sherman Carman, the finding of…

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Extraordinary Case of Drowning. Verdict of Wilful Murder Returned Against a Mother

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 August 1876 · page 3

THE quiet neighbourhood of Tal Papu, says the Canterbury Times, Now Zealand, has been thrown into a state of very consider able excitement by tho occurrence of an…

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Serious Steamship Collision.—sinking of the Queensland

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 4

THE most disastrous steamship collision that has ever taken place on the Australian court was reported on Thursday by telegram from Melbourne and created wide-spread excitement throughout the city…

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Destructive Collision Off Wilson’s Promontory. Total Loss of the E. AND A. Co.’s Steamer Queensland. [Br TELEGRAPH.] Melbourne, Thursday, noon

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 August 1876 · page 3

AT 5.30 o’clock this morning a collision took place between the Torres Straits mail steamer Queensland and the, steamer Barrabool. The Queensland was so much injured…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1876 · page 8

Several fatal explosions are among the tragedies of the months. On the 23rd June six men were killed and a seventh seriously matilated by an explosion of dynamite in a…

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Extra Ordinary Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 August 1876 · page 4

ON June 8 an accident occurred at St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park corner, which naturally excited great alarm, although it has not been attended with the…

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Drowned

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 September 1876 · page 4

"'Dead?' -- did you say he was 'dead?' or is it only my brain ? He went away an hour ago: will he not come again?…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 4

A teamaker named Pstrick Mc Gsire sort with a rer[?]e accident while sriving on the Ta[?] road yesterday. It appears that whilst patting on the truck he approched too near his waggoo, the…

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Accident at Jembaicumbkne Creek

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 7

On Saturday Messrs. Bennison Brothers dispatched a lad of flour to Araluen in the waggon of George Atkins, carrier, of this town. The load was delivered all right, and…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1876 · page 8

INFORMATION reached Bristol on August 8 that a terrible accident had occurred on the Somerset and Dorset railway. Late on Monday all kinds of rumours were afloat as to…

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Fatal Accident Near Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 November 1876 · page 2

WE regret to state that on last Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Thomas James, proprietor of tho North Yass Hotel, was thrown from a horse he was riding, and died shortly afterwards. The…

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A Shocking Accident Through Carelessness

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

A SHOCKING ACCIDENT THROUGH CARELESSNESS.—Brisbane, Friday.—At a picnic held a short distance out of Brisbane yesterday, a shocking accident occurred with fire through carelessness. It appeared…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 December 1876 · page 3

ACCIDENT.—The other day an accident happened to Mrs. Fallick, widow of the late Mr. Fallick, clerk of the jail. It seems that at the back-door of her house there is a email box used as a step, and on Mrs…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 3

ACCIDENT.—An aged man named William Watson of Grabben Gullen was admitted to the Goulburn hospital on Wednesday night suffering from a fracture of the right thigh-bone. It appears that…

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