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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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Accidents

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

Mrs. Gale, wife of Mr. William Gale, fellmonger, Grafton-street, met with a painful accident yester evening. She had been at the picnic at Norwood and was returning in a phaeton accompanied by Mrs…

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Accident From Gunpowder

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 2

A few days ago Mr. Andrew S. Chisholm of Cardross was engaged in burning some waste paper when he was severely injured by the explosion of at flask of gunpowder…

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Curious Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 3

A mishap, attributed Saturday to the express train from Melbourne to Saturday to the express train from Melbourne to Sydney. The information received by the railway…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 2

A DAY or two ago, Mrs. W. Douglas, of Inveralochy, and family were out driving, when the horse shied at a spring cart, and bolted, smashing the buggy and more or less injuring all the occupants…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 2

MR. ANDREW S. CHISHOLM, of Cardross, was somewhat severely burnt and otherwise injured by an explosion of gunpowder a few days ago. Mr. Chisholm was destroying some papers and, unaware…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 4

A PECULIAR mishap occurred shortly after midnight on Friday night to the Sydney express train at Culcairn. A gale was blowing, and four empty trucks, which were standing in a siding at that…

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Carriage Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 11 February 1886 · page 2

CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—A few days ago the horses attached to a carriage in which Mrs. Douglas of lnveralochy House and other members of the family were driving, took fright at an approaching cart…

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Drowned in a Tub

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 7

ABOUT 3 p.m. on Tuesday a child named Mary Robinson, two years and two months old, daughter of Mr. William Robinson, of Swanston-street, Macdonaldtown, was found drowned in a small tub…

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A Jockey Seriously injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 7

The Moonee Valley races were held on Saturday. In one of the races, the La Rose Handicap, there was a mishap. Ten horses came out. As they went round the turn from the lime yard to the back…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 3

A YOUNG man named Pritchard, in the employ of Mr. A. O. Moriarty, met with an accident whilst driving towards Tirranna, on Thursday afternoon, in a buggy. In turning a corner sharp, the horse…

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Accident at Tarlo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 3

On Thursday afternoon a lad named Alfred Yeadon living at Tarlo, met with a nasty accident whilst driving a cart in which was a water cask. The wheel of the cart struck a stump or some other obstacle,…

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Fatal Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 6

The Mogil Mogil coach in attempting to cross the Barwon River at Collarendebri on Wednesday afternoon was swept by the current into a deep hole, immediately below the crossing. There were…

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The Fatal Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 4

LATER information respecting the above has been received. Mr. Dillon, the survivor, states that the coach entered the river 50 yards below the old rocky ford crossing, at a new one. Thinking that the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1886 · page 4

A BOY named Michael Henry Irvin was brought into town last night and admitted into the hospital from Bomballa, near Marulan. He had received a severe injury to the muscles of the arm by being…

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Accidents

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

A day or two ago Mrs. Puddicombe, wife of the Venerable Archdeacon, met with a slight accident. In returning from the garden, where she had been plucking some fruit, to the house her foot caught in…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 18 February 1886 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Betts, coroner, held an inquest at the Railway Hotel, Tarago, touching the death of Bernard Graham, a farmer, who resided at the New Line, about six miles…

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Painful Accident

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

A painful accident happened this morning to a little girl named Roberta, daughter of Mr. Roberts, of Gundary. She was playing with some caps, containing, it is thought, dynamite, when by some…

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Accidents

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

CHARLES DORAN, in the employ of Mr. E. C. Bray, of Binda, while riding home on the Crookwell Road was unfortunately thrown from his horse yesterday. The shock rendered him insensible, and…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 February 1886 · page 2

A MAN named Charles Doran was thrown from his horse on Wednesday night as he was returning, to Crookwell from Goulburn, after disposing of some…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon Leslie Ferguson, a youth, son of Mr. S. Ferguson of Ifield, met with a serious accident. He was riding on horseback along Goldsmith-street when the horse…

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