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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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A Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 July 1886 · page 4

A PORTER at the Homebush railway station, Richard Smith, 23, met with a serious accident on Tuesday morning. It appears that while shunting trucks at the Homebush station he was in the act of…

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Fatal Accident at Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 7

A fatal accident happened on Wednesday afternoon to the youngest son of Capt. Bridges, J.P. and C.P.S., of Moss Vale, at his father's private residence, near…

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The Accident to the Braidwood Coach

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 6

THE Braidwood Dispatch gives the following particulars:—On Tuesday morning the mail coach from Tarago to Braidwood was upset at the foot of the hill this side of Mr…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 July 1886 · page 2

As the Rev. Father Carroll was returning from Sergeant Gibbons' funeral yesterday afternoon he had occasion to pull up at the Union Club Hotel in order to see Mrs. Rogan. The coachman was left…

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The Recent Accident in Sloane-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 4

WE understand that the report which appeared in these columns of the accident in Sloane-street was scarcely correct in all particulars. The groom did not alight from…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1886 · page 2

AN accident which seems to involve a good many suspicious circumstances occurred shortly after midnight this morning close to the viaduct crossing the Mulwarree Ponds. A luggage train, consisting of…

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A Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1886 · page 2

A LABOURER named James Thompson, 61 years of ago, met with an accident of a peculiar character while travelling on the Southern line of railway on Saturday. The man was riding on the platform of…

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Railway Accident at North Goulburn

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 22 July 1886 · page 2

On Tuesday morning last the No. 23 down goods train, which arrives at North Goulburn platform about half an hour after midnight, ran into the cattle siding under circumstances which lead to the…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 July 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY, whilst engaged in felling a tree in his paddock, Mr. John Broderick, son of Mr. Jeremial Broderick, of Laggan, met with a severe accident. During the…

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Accident to Captain Blackshaw

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 July 1886 · page 2

CAPTAIN BLACKSHAW, one of the Australian rifle team now in England, was injured in an accident at Portsmouth Dockyard on Friday, through a truck, which was conveying a number of visitors…

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Shocking Accident in Oxford-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 July 1886 · page 2

SHORTLY before 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning a shocking accident occurred in Oxford-street, Sydney, whereby a little boy named George Mitchell, residing at 67, Lower Campbell-street, was…

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Another Railway Accident in Tasmania

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 3

Another fatal railway accident occurred on the main line on Thursday night. The express train from Launceston went over the iron swing bridge on the…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 August 1886 · page 2

WE learn on good authority that on Wednesday last, whilst travelling from Goulburn to Crookwell in company with Mr. Scott in a dog-cart, and when near…

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Singular Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 7 August 1886 · page 4

SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—SEVEN TRUCKS TRAVELLING NINE MILES WITHOUT CONTROL.—Some stir, says the Melbourne Argus, was created at Spencer-street railway-station on Tuesday night by…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 August 1886 · page 2

A MAN named Kennedy was admitted on Tuesday morning last into the hospital suffering from an injury to the leg. The injury had been caused while wrestling at Towrang. The patient came up…

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Supposed Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 2

SUPPOSED DROWNING.—Gundagai, Saturday.—Mr. Thomas Broben, a wealthy grazier of Wagra, Tumut River, has been missing since Thursday night. He left Gundagai after dark for Wagra, and had to…

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Supposed Drowning of a Wealthy Squatter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 4

A GUNDAGAI telegram of Saturday says:—Mr. Thomas Broben, a wealthy grazier at Wagra, Tumut River, has been missing since Thursday night. He left Gundagai after dark. for 'Wagra, and had to…

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Drowning

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 September 1886 · page 2

ON Monday evening last a young man named John Marshall, aged 24 years, a son of Mr. James Marshall at present residing in Marsdon-street, Crookwell,…

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Drowning of a Crookwell Resident

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

ON Monday evening last a young man named John Marshall, aged 24 years, a son of Mr. James Marshall at present residing in Marsden-street, Crookwell, was in company with H. Lamb, also…

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Fatal Accident Near Kiama

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 4

THE community of Kiama received a shock on Sunday afternoon when news reached town that Dr.Lacey had been fatally injured by a fall from his horse. The sad tidings were soon supplemented…

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