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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1881

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Sad Case of Accidental Drowning

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 January 1881 · page 3

ON Christmas-day, when every one in this city was enjoying the rest and quist of a holiday, one home was thrown into the deepest, gloom by the announcement that one of its inmates had been…

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Fatal Tramway Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 January 1881 · page 2

An accident of a most, distressing nature occurred on the tramway yesterday, and another was only prevented by the indomitable pluck of one of the guards…

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Serious Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 4

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—An accident of a most distressing nature occurred to a young man named Lye, aged about sixteen, at Camden Park, on Thursday last. It appears that the unfortunate fellow was…

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A Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1881 · page 2

QUITE a gloom was over the town yesterday, when intelligence reached the place that Mr. Alexander Kinghorne had met with an accident that resulted in his death. The…

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Serious Railway Accident. Ballarat, 26th January

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 February 1881 · page 3

A terrible accident occurred at the Beaufort railway station this afternoon, by a co[?]sion between a mixed train and a special grain train. It appears that the…

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The Late Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1881 · page 2

AN inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon at Maxton before the coroner, Mr. A. M. Betts, on the body of the late Mr. Alexander Kinghorne, whose death by a fall from his horse was reported in our…

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Sad Case of Drowning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 14 February 1881 · page 2

SAD CASE OF DROWNING.— A melancholy case of drowing, undersomewhat remarkable circumstances, occurred at Albury on Friday last. Mr. E. J. Cunnic gham, a well-known resident of…

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Singular Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 14 February 1881 · page 4

A remarkable death through accident is reported in the Hobart Town Mercury of February 3. It appears that a Mr. Francis William…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1881 · page 3

THE Argus gives the following particulars of the accident on Saturday evening to a girl named Kate Layland, nearly 16 years of age, at the Williamstown Junction…

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The Late Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1881 · page 4

A CORONER'S inquest was held at Albury on Monday, 14th February, upon the body of Edward Cunningham, who was drowned in the river on Friday…

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Dreadful Accident. MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1881 · page 2

A terrible eat istrophe occurred at the Heads on Saturday evening The turret ship Gerbeins had been experimenting with torped charges, and had exploded four electro contact mines A final…

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Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1881 · page 2

Last evening Thomas Cahill, groom at Mr. Nash's Harp Hotel, received injuries from a cart, which this morning resulted in death. It appears that Cahill, according to his custom, had…

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The Late Accident at Port Phillip Heads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 4

In reference to the blowing up of the boat and four men, the cause of the accident is at present unknown, as Murray, the electrician aboard the Cerberus, who had charge of the firing appartus, had not…

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Fatal Accident in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 2

ONE of those sad events which now and again it is our duty to chronicle, occurred on Tuesday evening in the vicinity of the Argyle Mills; the unfortunate in this instance being an elderly man named Thomas…

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Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 2

On Sunday last Thomas Barker senior of the Run of Water met with a painful accident under the following circumstances. He got out of bed rather hurriedly to go into an adjourning…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 2

A SAD accident happened at Gunning early yesterday morning which has resulted in the death of Mr. Launcelot Cornelius Beck, railway guard. It appears that deceased was in charge of…

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The Late Accidental Death

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 4

AN inquest was held at the hospital on Thursday afternoon by the coroner, Mr. A. M. Botts, on the body of Thomas Cahill, who met with his death by being knocked down by a cart under circumstances…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1881 · page 3

A CHILD named George Gotwall, aged 5 years, was run over this morning in Union-street, in front of its parents' residence, near the Public School, Nortlh Goulburn. From information we received…

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Shot and Drowned

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 April 1881 · page 4

THE Dubbo Dispatch of the 19th instant gives the following details of the gun accident to Mr. Thornton, and the drowning of that young gentleman:--On Sunday a dreadful accident…

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The Torpedo Accident at Port Phillip

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1881 · page 4

The torpedo board appointed to inquire into the recent calamity at the Heads has sent in its report. Reasons are given at length for arriving at the conclusion that…

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