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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

225 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 10 of 12

Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 4

AT an early hour yesterday morning a youngman named Richard Sisk, in the employ of Mr. A. H. Carpenter, municipal contractor for the removal of nightsoil, had the misfortune to break his…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 3

A BOY named George Beck, nine years old, and son of Mrs. Beck who keeps the railway gates in Mundy-street, received some severe injuries yesterday morning in…

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Three Children Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 October 1886 · page 2

A san accident occurred at Fairfield on Saturday by which three children of the family of William Turner, a butcher, working in Sydney, lost their lives through drowning. It appears…

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Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, whilst engaged clearing Mr. Short's land on the Gullen road, Mr. Barnett was in the act of fastening a chain round a log when the horse started, and…

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Mother and Son Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 2

A MELANCHOLY case of drowning, by which a mother and son lost their lives, occurred at Kingvale, near Young, on Friday morning, and was reported to the police at Young the same…

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Terrible Accidents at Micalago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 3

Two shocking fatal accidents, the victims being a man and a boy, occurred in the neighbourhood of Micalago on Monday. Only the bare facts are to hand which are as…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 4

Messrs. Gardner and Wheatley's assistant while engaged in taking orders on Thursday last had his horse full under him. The animal rolled over him and broke his left collar-bone…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 November 1886 · page 2

MR. WILLIAM OLIVER met with a very severe accident yesterday morning through being flung from his horse. He was out riding in company with Mr. H. I. Pedley, when a dog got in front…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 November 1886 · page 2

An accident, which has terminated fatally, occurred on Monday afternoon at the Dubbo Railway Station. An elderly woman, named Feaney, was severely crushed between the…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 November 1886 · page 2

ON Sunday last Miss Broderick, daughter of Mr. Jeremiah Broderick, Laggan road, While riding on horseback home from mass at Laggan, the animal cannoned…

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Severe Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 4

A MAN named John Pollard, in the employ of Mr. Hayes, City Flour Mills, sustained some severe injuries through an accident this morning. While going about his usual work a bag of flour…

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Extraordinary Quarry Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 3

AN accident of an unusual character and attended with fatal results occurred on Saturday afternoon, September 25, at the famous Crarae quarries on Loch Fyne side,…

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Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 November 1886 · page 2

A BOY named Joe Beaseley, an orphan, 12 years of age, living with his grandmother at Marulan, was brought to the hospital between eight and nine last night. He had been using a…

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Fatal Accident Near Burrowa

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 November 1886 · page 2

A SAD fatal accident occurred at Grassy Creek, near Burrowa, on Friday. Two girls, aged 17 and 13 years respectively, daughters of Mr. Benjamin Good, a settler, were walking arm in…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 December 1886 · page 2

A SAD accident occurred at Grassy Creek, Burrowa, on Saturday. Two girls, aged 17 and 13 years respectively, daughters of Mr. Benjamin Good, a settlor, were…

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Fatality at Upper Mittagong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 6

DOCTOR KNIGHT, Sydney, who was in this neighbourhood examining people for the Australian Widows' Fund Insurance Company, died on Wednesday…

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Accident to the Express

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 6

AN accident occurred on Thursday morning to the down express train from Sydney to Albury. The engine ran over a bull which was on the line at…

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Accident to the Express Train

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 4

A mishap occurred on the railway on Wednesday last. It appears that the up express train which left Albury on Wednesday night when near…

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Extraordinary Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 December 1886 · page 4

A serious railway accident occurred on Thursday afternoon at the north-eastern line at Glenrowan, Victoria. While a mob of bullocks were being driven across the line at the railway…

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A Young Girl Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 December 1886 · page 2

INVERELL, Wednesday.—A girl, 12 years of ago, the daughter of Mr. William Senior, contractor for the now court-house in Inverell, was drowned in the M'Intyre River at 10 o'clock…

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