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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1877

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 February 1877 · page 2

THE Sydney corner held an inquest, on Monday touching the death at a fireman employed on the railway, named John Elliott who was knocked off the engine of the 5.25 p.m. train on Saturday…

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Accident at Gundaroo

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1877 · page 3

The little girl, Mary Ann Jobbins, whose foot was nearly out lengthwise, through the fall of an American axe off a chopping block at her mother's residence Gundaroo, on the…

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Two Men Drowned at Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 February 1877 · page 4

On Tuesday a fishing party of four persons left Woolloomooloo Bay to fish at Long Reef. In the afternoon they left to heat back for…

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Dreadful Fatality in a Family

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1877 · page 6

During the past fortnight several numbers of Mr. Henry Allen's family, of the Cross Roads, near Sutton Forest, have been out off by death, says the Scratineer, in an…

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Fatal Accident at Queanbeyan

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 2

THE Queanbeyan Age gives the following particulars of the terrible accident which resulted in the death of Mr. Ernest Palmer at the Queanbeyan recreation ground on…

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Fatal Accident Near Bowning

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 March 1877 · page 2

YESTERDAY an inquest was held at the residence of Mr. D. Minehan, senior, Bowning station, on the death of Daniel Minehan, junior, which resulted from a fall from a horse. The inquest…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 2

AN accident almost as serious in its results no that of Abbots Ripton, on the same line in the early part of this year, occurred at the Arlesey siding station, four miles, north of…

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Accident to the Minister for Lands

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 March 1877 · page 2

The Hon. R. Driver, minister for lands, met with a somewhat serve accident an Saturday last. Towards evening he left his office in Pitt-street in a cab in…

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An Incident of the Ashtabula Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 6

IF every individual who went down with the ill-fated railroad train at Ashtabula and lived through the experience were to write up his or her sensations and adventures,…

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Suicide by Drowning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 April 1877 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon Mr. Butts held an inquest at the Goulburn hospital on the body of a young woman named Caroline Acheson, found in the Wollondilly River on that morning. The following…

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Railway Accident in Tasmania

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

THE Hobart Town Mercury gives the following particulars concerning the accident on the main line of railway which occurred on the 24th instant:—…

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Accidentally Killed

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 4

ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.—On Friday last the coroner. Mr. Betts, held an inquest at Gullen on the body of the William Nugent, a carpenter, aged sixty-six, who died on Thursday under the circumstances detailed…

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Shocking Railway Accident at Morpeth

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 8

SHORTLY after midnight on March 25 a sad accident occurred to the Flying Scotchman, as the train is called, which left Edinburgh between ten and eleven o'clock for Newcastle…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Goulburn

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1877 · page 2

ON the arrival at Goulburn of the one o'clock mail and passenger train from Mumumburrah on Saturday morning a young man named John Lloyd, aged twenty-eight, unmarried, a passenger from Binalong,…

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Death From Injuries Accidentally Received

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1877 · page 2

AT four o'clock yesterday the coroner. Mr. Batta, held an inquest at the Goulburn Hospital on the body of George Downe[?] aged thirty-six, a t[?] in the employ of Mr. John Ball of Tarago. On Thursday…

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Fatal Accident at Bowning

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 July 1877 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday at the Australian Arms Hotel, Bowning, by Dr. Blake, the district coroner, and a jury of twelve, to inquire into the cause of death of Amos Swift, a farmer, at…

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Lamentable Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 August 1877 · page 2

On July 1, about midday, an accident of a most distressing nature occurred at the romantic Falls of Bruar, a short distance above Blair Athole…

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Shocking Accident at a Ship Launch

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1877 · page 2

Chester, Penn., May 22.—A most frightful accident occurred at Roach's shipyard here this morning, by which seven men were killed and three injured. It ins arranged to…

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Melancholy Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1877 · page 2

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN SUFFOCATED.—Two men named Patrick Doyle and Edward Doyle, brothers, aged twenty-two and twenty-five years respectively,…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 October 1877 · page 4

On Thursday a son of Mr. Madden of Mommell, aged eight years, while running in the house tripped over a step, and falling broke the left fore arm. He was brought in to Dr. Davidson who…

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