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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1878

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Colliery Accident in Mon Mouthshire. London, September 15

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent colliery explosion in Monmouthshire…

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Accidently Drowned

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 October 1878 · page 4

Two children aged about 2 years each were drowned at Parramatta last Monday whilst playing near a pond. This is yet another instance of children losing their lives by the…

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Rules for the Treatment of the Apparently Drowned

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 6

RULE I.—To drain and force water from the lungs and stomach.—Instantly place patient face downward, a hard roll of clothing being placed beneath the pit of the stomach, to…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1878 · page 4

DURING the early part of last week Mrs. Bailey, who resides in Mundy-street, whilst engaged in her household duties, unfortunately missed her footing and fell down stairs, thereby sustaining a…

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Accidents

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 October 1878 · page 4

ON Tuesday last an accident of a very painful character occurred to a little girl about six or seven years of age, daughter of Mr. Charles Brown, painter of this city. It seems that the little thing…

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Found Drowned near Gunning

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 6

LAST Saturday Mr. Whittaker brought information to the police that the body of a man had been discovered in the [?] River, a short distance from his residence. Constable Wiles proceeded to…

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Accidents

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 October 1878 · page 3

SHORTLY after noon on Tuesday last an accident of a rather painful character occurred to Mr Samuel Kirke of this city. It appears that the young man named was walking quietly up Montague street,…

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Another Child Drowned

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 4

AGAIN we notice a child meeting its death by being allowed to run about unminded. A little boy named Ernest Ryan was drowned at Parramatta last- Wednesday. He was playing on the parapet…

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Serious Coach Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.—An accident occurred last night at the the North Wagga Wagga Terminus. The coach, shortly after leaving the station, turned over, through the driver not being able to use the…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 October 1878 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon a little boy about ten years of age named Alfred Jessep, the eldest son of Mr. T. J, Jessep the fruiterer, had taken his father’s horse to water, and was…

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Rescue from Drowning

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 October 1878 · page 4

ON Monday night last at about nine o’clock a boat containing three fisherman were swamped in a sudden squall, near Manly Beach. The Hon George Thornton, who is…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 October 1878 · page 2

A DAY or two ago a lad about fourteen or fifteen years of age, son of Mr. Joseph Guymor of Maxton, met with a painful accident by getting the middle linger of his right hand crushed between…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 4

On Wednesday last an accident of a painful character occurred to a lad about eleven years of age named Burgess, who resides at Woodhouseleo. It appears that the little fellow was out riding after…

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A Terrible Fatal Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 6

OCCURRED on Thursday evening at Petersham. A lad named Henry Ross, 12 years of age, was riding on a dray loaded with clay, in Crystal-street, when his foot slipped, and…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 October 1878 · page 4

AN accident of a painful nature occurred on Saturday evening last to a boy about eight years of age, son of Mr. Wallis of the Carrick post-office. It appears that the lad’s elder brother was engaged in…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 30 October 1878 · page 4

ONE of the worse accidents—indeed as regards the number of persons killed and injured the very worst—that the London, Chatham, and Dover railway has ever experienced…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 October 1878 · page 3

AN accident of a rather serious nature occurred yesterday morning to Master Oswald Furner, son of Mr. Owen Furner of this city. It appears from what we can gather that the boy was occupied in…

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Sad Case of Drowning.—Painful Suicide

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 November 1878 · page 6

GUNDAGAI, Friday.—Mr. Robert Arnold, a saddler well known in the district, whilst attempting to cross Stoney Creek, on horseback, last evening, was carried away by the flood in the creek and drowned…

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Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 November 1878 · page 4

AN accident occurred yesterday of a serious nature to an infant child of Mrs. Mc Donald of Woodhouslee, It seems that Mrs, Mc Donald with the infant (only one month old), accompanied by her…

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Fatal Accident at Collector

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 November 1878 · page 4

WE have received intelligence of a fatal accident that occurred near Collector to a lad named Jones. A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday before Mr. J. J. Waddell, J.P., when the following…

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