Accident
On Wednesday a young lad named Hazlewood got caught in some machinery at Messrs. Ball and Co.'s foundry, on the Yass road. A piece was torn from the fleshy part of the left arm, leaving the…
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Accidents, 1885
398 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 20
Fatal Blasting Accident on the Cooma Railway Extension
ABOUT midnight on Friday last, whilst preparing a shot at a cutting on the Bungendore to Queanbeyan railway, a little north of Mr. J. M. Forrester's Molonglo Bridge Hotel, a premature explosion took…
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A shocking fatal accident occurred between 10 and 11 o'clock on Thursday morning to a porter named Walter Mickey, of West Maitland. The unfortunate man was…
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The Queenbeyan Age reports that on Saturday morning, shortly after midnight, whilst preparing a shot at a cutting on the Bungendore to Queanbeyan railway, a little north of…
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ON Saturday morning, shortly after midnight, whilst preparing a shot at a cutting on the Bungendore to Queanbeyan railway, a little north of Mr. J. M. Forrester's Molonglo Bridge…
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A SAD and painful accident happened at Yass on Saturday evening last, adding another to the list of casualties through firearms. It appears that Mr. G. Herfort was engaged in cleaning his gun, and to…
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In some parts of the grazing districts of Kent flock-owners are suffering rather severe losses among their ewes from an obscure disease, which attacks them in a strange manner. The prominent…
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A very narrow escape from death was reported in Yass on Saturday night. It appears that the members of Mr. G. Herfort's family, together with several friends and…
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An accident occurred at M'Leod's cutting on the railway line, four miles from Cockle Creek, Wallsend, on Saturday night. An enormous blast of over one ton of powder was exploded some 20 feet…
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Thomas Croak, miner, aged 55, was killed by a goods train near Ballarat East on Saturday. The deceased, who was intoxicated, was crossing the railway, when he fell between the wheels of an…
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A telegram from Temora to the Cootamundra Liberal says:—A sad accident occurred to a selector named—M'Crone, senr., whilst driving home from Cootamundra. It is supposed that the cart came…
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The West Australian of April 20 reports that the Roman Catholic bishop of Perth (Dr. Griver) met with a serious accident on the previous Sunday morning. The venerable prelate, who recently…
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AN accident occurred at M'Leod's cutting on the railway line, four miles from Cockle Creek, Walls-end, on Saturday night. An enormous blast of over one ton of powder was exploded some 20 feet behind…
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A FATAL accident occurred near South Creek on Saturday night, by which a young woman named Lamerack, 23 years of age, lost her life. The young woman had been to Sydney with her father,…
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AN electric engineer, named James Cormack, aged 28 years, residing at Summer Hill, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Friday, suffering from wounds on the left eye, face, and neck, received…
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HARVEY, a teamster, working on the Queanbeyan railway line, got his right leg terribly smashed by his waggon passing over it while heavily loaded on Thursday last. Dr. Fitzpatrick, with the concurrence…
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Sydney, May 20.—The steamer Australia, which collided and sank in the harbour last night with the tug-boat Port Jackson, is still aground…
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An inquest was held at Penrith on Monday concerning the death of a woman who was killed on the railway line last Saturday night between South Creek and Park station. The evidence was to the…
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A miner named J. Norman, 63 years of age, was admitted into the Sydney Hospital, on Monday, suffering from the effects of severe burns, caused by his having fallen into a fire during a fit. The…
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