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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1878

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A Wife Accidentally Shot by Her Husband

The Burrowa News · Saturday 5 January 1878 · page 3

DR. MACLEAN, district corner, held an inquest on Monday, at the Railway Hotel, Yarraville, on the body of Mary Sinclair Smith, who was shot by her…

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Accidentally Drowned

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1878 · page 1

AN inquest was held at Marulan yesterday before the coroner (A. M. Betts, Esq.), on the body of Samson Joseph Cade, 8 years old, who had been drowned while bathing on the previous day…

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Fearful Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 30 January 1878 · page 3

A young man named Elias Brown met with a fearful accident on Friday evening, while working at a threshing-machine, on the Pudman, about fourteen miles from Burrowa. His…

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Frightful Railway Accident and Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 4

AT a few minute after eleven o'clock on Wednesday night a through goods down train collided with an up special goods train at Emu Plains, just at the bottom of the Lapstone Hill inches. The two trains…

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Frightful Railway Accident. (From the Evening News.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 9

AT a few minutes after 11 o’clock on Wednesday night a through goods down train collided with an up-special goods train at Emu Plains, just at the bottom of the Lapstone incline. The two…

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Child Drowned

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 2

On Saturday morning between nine and ten o'clock a little boy aged five, named Robert Beck, son of one of the railway guards, was drowned in the Mulwarree. It appears from what…

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Frightful Railway Accident in America. Hartford, January 16

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1878 · page 4

A SERIOUS railway accident happened on the Connecticut Western Railroad, just beyond Tariffville, about ten miles from Hartford, at ten o'clock this evening. An…

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Gun-accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1878 · page 4

Another instance of the careless use of firearms, in which the escape from serious, consequences was ever narrower than that we reported last issue. has just been brought under our…

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Accident on the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 4

On the arrival of the goods train at Marulan last evening Mr. Crawford, who was at Goulburn, heard by telegram that a serious accident had happened to one of the…

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A Startling Accident at the Circular Quay

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 March 1878 · page 4

AN unusual casualty, resulting in the death of a valuable home by drowning and a very narrow escape of the driver from the same fate, took place at Circular Quay, near the…

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Accidents in the Harbour

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1878 · page 3

ON Saturday afternoon one of the severest ‘southerly busters’ known for a long time past swept across the harbour, and did a considerable amount of damage to the yachting fleet and…

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Fatal Accident From Cutting Cake

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 2

The Westminster coroner recently investigated the cause of death of a young lady named Hughes, aged twenty-eight, who had been engaged as a companion to a lady in…

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Terrible Colliery Accident at Kilsyth. Glasgow, March 8

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 May 1878 · page 2

A TERRIBLE colliery accident occurred this morning at Kilsyth, not far from Blantyre, where an accident of a similar nature took place a few months ago. Mining enterprise…

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Terrible Coach Accident in New Zealand

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 4

For the subjoined report of the coach accident at the Horse Range, New Zealand, which Mr. Charles Nichols, of Dalgety, Nichols, and Co., was killed, we are…

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Nine Racehorses Drowned

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 2

IT appears that the furious gales which during the last few days have been sweeping along the coast (reports the Melbourne Herald) indicated their approach at…

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A Frightful Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 4

SLATINGTON, Pa., April 5, 1878.—A terrible accident occurred, causing the loss of five lives and wounding several persons. Freight train No. 49, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad,…

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Found Drowned at Bowning

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 August 1878 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening intelligence was brought to Yass that a son of Mr. E. Jenkins, of Bowning -- a fine intelligent little fellow, only eight years of age -- had strayed from his home that day…

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Death by Drowning of a Claimant to £5,000,000

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 September 1878 · page 2

ON Saturday last, at Blakney Creek, an inquest was held before Mr. J. F. Gray, J.P., coroner, on the body of an aged man named Edward O'Keeffe. who had been found drowned in…

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The Late Accident on the Thames. London, September 9

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 2

The bodies of 503 persons drowned by the Princess Alice disaster have been recovered. September 11. The Australian cricketers have subscribed…

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Drowned in the Wollondilly

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 2

An inquest was held by the district coroner, Mr. A. M. Betts, at Mummel, on Sunday last, on view of the body of Patrick Leonard. John Cole, farmer at Baw Baw,…

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