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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

225 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 12

Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 3

A GENTLEMAN named Gilman, residing at Mummel, sustained a fracture of the forearm near the wrist yesterday through being thrown from a horse. He was admitted to the hospital, and placed under the…

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Serious Railway Collision at Bowral

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was received by wire at the Goulburn railway-station at 12.40p.m. on Saturday that the tourists train from Sydney to Goulburn had collided with a goods train at Bowral, and that several…

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Collision on the Southern Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 4

GOULBURN was thrown into a state of great excitement on Saturday afternoon when it became known that an accident had happened to the tourist train at Bowral. Rumour, true to her character,…

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The Collision at Bowral. Additional Particulars

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 2

THE Bowral correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says:—The semaphore, it appears, showed the danger signal at the time. The engine-driver of the goods train saw the tourist train approaching,…

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Latest Telegrams. Serious Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 2

AT twenty minutes past 12 on Saturday the tourist train from Sydney containing a large number of passengers, collided with a goods train on the railway bridge, 30 feet high, a quarter of a mile…

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Bowral Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 May 1886 · page 4

THE inquiry will be commenced immediately by the examination of the officials in charge of the trains which collided and other persons who were present at the accident. A Bowral telegram of…

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Serious Railway Accident at Bowral

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 3

A SERIOUS railway collision occurred at Bowral on Saturday last, near the bridge, between the tourist train and a goods train. The No. 7 down tourist train from…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday last, while engaged in breaking down a huge log at the sawmills on Diamond Swamp, the log slipped and Mr Josoph Dorrett's (one of the…

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Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 2

On Saturday last, between one and two o'clock p.m., a collision occurred on the Groat Southern railway at Bowral between the tourist train and a goods train,…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

On Wednesday evening Master William Harris of Lynton, Baw Baw, a pupil of the Rev. Canon D'Arey-Irvine, went out to catch his pony to return home from school, when the…

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The Bowral Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

THE “ Gundagil Times” gives the following description of the accident which occurred on the southern line of railway, near Rowral, on Saturday last. It is from the [?]pen of an eye witness, who…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4

ON Wednesday evening a painful accident happened to Mr. John Allen, the well-known brick-maker of Towrang. It appears that Mr. Allen and Mr. G. Bates had occasion to visit Bowning, and…

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Bowral Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 2

THE Bowral Free Press of Saturday last says:—Those injured in the railway accident have, so far as we are able to learn, all recovered, or very nearly so, with the exception of Mrs. Hannaford, who still…

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Shocking Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

ON Monday night, just After we had gone to press. (says the Queanbeyan Age), Mr. E. B. Percy came breathless into town and reported to the police and Dr. Fitzpatrick that he had been the accidental…

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Queanbeyan. the Late Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 6

THE inquest on the body of Mr. Plummer was held on Tuesday afternoon before Mr. Coroner Parr. Francis Penney deposed: I am a carter, and reside in Queanbeyan; about 8 o'clock on Monday…

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Peculiar Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred on Wednesday at Shanahan's Hotel, Russell-street, Bathurst. James Wright, an ex-policeman and a bailiff, ascended the verandah of the hotel, which is…

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The Late Railway Accident at Bowral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

THE following is an abstract of the report and finding of the board appointed by the Commissioner for Railways to inquire into the circumstances connected with the railway accident at…

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Accident to a Young Lady

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 3

ON Monday lost a painful accident happened to Miss Lucy Howard, daughter of Mr. John Howard. From what we can gather, it appears that the young lady…

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