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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1884

284 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 15

A Sad Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred, on Monday, at Bathurst, to a little girl named Violent May Player, about 11 years old, who was playing about in a house in George-street, and ran past a room where…

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The Bathurst Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2

AN inquest was held at Bathurst, on Tuesday, on the body of Violet Mary Player, 11 years of age, who was accidentally shot dead on the previous day by Philip Bremmer alias Creith, who was before the…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2

ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a settler named Callaghan, residing near Tarago, was engaged with his son in felling a tree. The son lost his presence of mind and neglected to clear himself of the failing…

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Accident at Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 July 1884 · page 2

A LAD named Callaghan, whilst felling a tree at Tarago, met with such serious injuries that he had to be brought to town on Monday night. He was caught, it seems, by a branch of a falling tree, and…

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Accident

Southern Argus · Saturday 5 July 1884 · page 2

A man named Edward Kennedy working at the Berrima Coal mines. Met with an accident on Thursday morning in consequence of which he has had to be brought to the Goulburn Hospital. He…

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Accident to a Trooper

Southern Argus · Saturday 5 July 1884 · page 4

A serious revolver accident occurred at Farina on Saturday. When a number of troopers, were practising revolver-shooting at targets the horse of one of the troopers named…

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Serious Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 July 1884 · page 4

JUST after the Sydney mail coach crossed Bunyan-bridge on Sunday night (says the Monaro Mercury) it capsized. Among the passengers, six in number, were the…

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Mining Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 July 1884 · page 3

ON Thursday morning a young man named Edward Kennedy met with an accident whilst working in the Berrima Coal Mine. He was removing some props when…

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Curious Accident

Southern Argus · Tuesday 8 July 1884 · page 2

A somewhat strange accident occurred at the back of Hayes' mill on Saturday afternoon. A man named Henry Page was sent to remove some smut from a couple of sheets of galvanised iron, on which…

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Serious Accident at Hayes' Mill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 July 1884 · page 2

A SERIOUS and most peculiar accident happened at Messrs. J. and J. Hayes' mill on Saturday afternoon. Two of the employees, named. Page and Smith had occasion to go into the chaff room. One…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 July 1884 · page 2

A DREADFUL accident occurred about half-past 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, on the railway at Eveleigh, and which resulted in the immediate death of a man named Charles Williams, aged 60 years…

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Accident

Southern Argus · Saturday 12 July 1884 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald, Goulburn Evening Penny Post

About half past six o'clock on Thursday night a Mr. McLean, of Taralga, was thrown from his horse in Grafton-street. He was dragged along the road for about twenty yards, when his foot got loose of…

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Heartrending Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 2

A DREADFUL catastrophe occurred on the Gundagai railway works, near the mill, on Sunday morning, when three little children were roasted alive. The father of the children is a navvy working on…

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Accident

Southern Argus · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 2

A man named Edward Jenkins was brought to the hospital on Saturday morning from Tarngo where he had met with an accident. He was working a circular saw when the top of his left hand…

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Accident to a Mail c[?]

Southern Argus · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 2

A coach accident, fortunately, [?]na fatal results, happened on Saturday [?] and Co.'s mail-coach, which left [?] usual hour, in charge of Charles Kelly[?]…

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Accident to a Paymaster

Southern Argus · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 2

The Gundagii Times regrets to learn that Mr. Fortescue, paymaster for Messrs. McSharry and Co., railway contractors, met with a nasty accident on Wednesday last. He was driving a pair of horses…

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A Terrible Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 4

A SHOCKING accident occurred at Newtown on Friday. About 11 a.m. a woman named Catherine Elliot, wife of Daniel Elliott, produce merchant, allowed her dress to become entangled with a…

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A Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 4

ABOUT mid-day lest Friday a man named Jenkins, who is in the employ of Messrs. Topham, Angus, and Co., met with a painful accident at the Mulloon saw mills. Ho was engaged with a circular saw,…

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