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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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Accident Caused by a Dog

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 2

AN accident, by which Andrew Palmer, a young man, from South Melbourne, lost his life, occurred (says a correspondent of the Age) at Wallan Wallan last Monday night. From the evidence which was…

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Railway Accident on the Little Zigzag

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 2

NEWS was received in Sydney on Monday that a railway accident had happened on the little Zigzag near Penrith. On inquiry at the Railway Department our reporter was informed that the 32 up…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 4

KINGSDALE has had a good record of accidents of late. Another occurred there yesterday morning, which resulted in a broken leg. A man named Jim O'Keefe, in stopping a runaway team belonging to…

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Accident to a Circus Trainer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 4

Signor Chiarini, the well-known circus proprietor, was very badly hurt by the Manila pony which he attempted to subdue some time since. The Hongkong Telegraph of Feburary 13 says:—" His face…

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Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 3

AN accident occurred to the tourist's train which left Bathurst at 4 o'clock last Monday morning. Considerable damage was done to the engine and some of the…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident occured at Bowenfels, on Thursday. As the midday passenger train was leaving the station a line-man named Cuthrie was bidding good-bye to…

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Buggy Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon Mrs. Andrew Price left her horse and buggy outside Messrs. Furner Brothers' store while she went in to make some purchases. Without any…

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Serious Gunpowder Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 4

ANOTHER accident arising from the careless use of explosives has to be chronicled. On Tuesday last a boy named Powell, living in Sloane-street, was standing near some boys, who were handling or…

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The Zig Zag Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 3

THE board appointed to inquire into the recent railway accident on the Zig Zag blame the driver of the train for not making better use of the handbrake on the engine instead of relying upon the airbrake…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 2

Last Saturday morning Mr. Handcock superintendent of carriages in the railway department, had the little finger of one of his hands completely smashed through the pivot of a large…

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Accidentally Shot at a Wallaby Drive

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 2

A man named John Ford was shot at a wallaby drive at Peelwood, thiry miles from Crookwell, on Saturday. Ford was one of the drivers, and as his cousin, a man named Mills, was aiming at a wallaby,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 2

AN accident occurred yesterday morning at Glencoe, near Bowral, to a man named Robert Hobden, which resulted in a fractured leg. Hobden was loading sand with a horse, and dray and a loose…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 2

A LITTLE boy named Leslie Haddon, four years of age, son of Mr. Walter Haddon, of Mulwarree-street, met with a very painful accident on Sunday last. He was going to St. Nicholas'…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 4

A PAINFUL accident occurred to Mr. John Hancock, f Montague-street, on Saturday last. He was engaged in sharpening some tools at the steam grind-stone-an occupation that for many years he…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 April 1886 · page 3

On Sunday lest Leslie Haddon, four years of ago, son of Mr. Walter Haddon, railway engine driver, had his right thigh broken through the gate leading into the yard of lit. Nicholas'…

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Shocking Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatality occurred at Rosedale, Gippsland, on Saturday afternoon, when the wife of Dr. Matthews was burned to death. It appears that the…

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Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday last a serious accident befel Mr. John Ford; of Poolwood, while attending a wallaby drive near the residence of Mr. Luke Mills. Ford was one of the…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

A MAN named Matthew Ryan whilst returning from the funeral of the late Mrs. Kennedy on Monday last met with an accident which caused his…

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Accident with Firearms

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 3

On Wednesday afternoon a sad accident happened at Sutton Forest to Master Herbert Badgery, aged eighteen, oldest son of Mr. A. D. Badgery J.T. The youth was…

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Fatal Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 4

A MAN named Matthew Ryan whilst returning from the funeral of the late Mrs. Kennedy on Monday last met with an accident which caused his death. When on the top of Wade's Hill, it is…

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