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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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Accident at the Jubilee Naval Review. LONDON, July 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 2

During the Jubilee naval review off Spithead on Saturday Inst a serious accident occurred on board the gunboat Kite. A cartridge exploded, killing one of the crow and injuring several…

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Accident to a Mail Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Herald

AN accident happened to the mail train arriving at Albury from Melbourne at midnight on Friday. Soon after crossing the Murray bridge the train ran into some horses which strayed on…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

AT an early hour on Friday morning a coal limper named Henry Bitt, employed on the steam collier Tasmanis, fell a depth of about 20 feet while in the net of walking along a plank. At…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 4

DR. MORTON was called upon the other day to treat a broken shoulder. The patient was a man named James Smith; but only meagre particulars are available as to the cause of the accident…

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Another Football Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 6

MR. L. Soloman, while playing at football on Saturday last, slipped and broke the small bone of his leg, which will consequently incapacitate him from…

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A Girl Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 2

MR. W. T. PINHEY, J. P., held a magisterial inquiry on Monday at Marrickville, relative to the death of a child named Margaret Talbot, 2½ years of age, whose body was found in a well…

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Accident at Gunning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1887 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT writes wishing us to correct a slight error made by our Gunning correspondent in an allusion to an accident which happened to a little child of Mrs. J. Smith's. Our…

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The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 August 1887 · page 2

IN reply to a communication from the Commissioner for Railways, the Departmental Board appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the recent railway accident at Peat's…

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Death by Drowning at Nanima

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 3

A SAD death by drowning occurred in the Nanima Creek on Monday afternoon. Two little boys, aged 7 and 9 years, sons of Mr. Nathaniel Lucas, of Griffith's Flat,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Herald

A LITTLE girl, daughter of Mr. Stevenson of the Great Southern Railway Hotel, Sloane-st., fell over a stone on Thursday afternoon and sustained a fracture of the left elbow. Dr. Morton…

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Shocking Accident at Molong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 2

A FATAL accident happened to a son of Mr. J. T. Parslow, jun., butcher, of Molong, on Sunday evening. The little fellow was out on a visit to his grandfather, and while there a visitor, Mr…

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A Father and Daughter Accidentally Poisoned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1887 · page 4

A CORONER'S inquest was commenced on Friday, before Mr. Johns, J.P., at Trink's Hotel, Bowling Alley Point, Nundle, touching the cause of death of William and Sarah Blake, father and…

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R.M.S. Rome in a Collision. LONDON, Aug. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 4

The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Rome, when passing though the Suez Canal, collided with a launch. Neither vessel sustained serious damage, but two men were killed, and there has…

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Shocking Blasting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Healesville, Victoria, on Thursday. A man named Russell, employed on the Watts River Extension of the Waterworks,…

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Terrible Railway Accident in America. New York, Aug. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 4

A terrible railway accident occurred to-day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was hurled into the river. The exact loss of…

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Railway Accident in America. London, August 13

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 2

Further advices are to hand regarding the railway disaster which took place on Thursday last in the State of Illinois. The accident occurred at midnight. The…

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Accident on the Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 2

AN accident which might have resulted seriously occurred to six fettlers on the railway line last Friday between Bowning and Binalong. The six men are engaged on the line between…

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The Railway Accident in America. London, Aug. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 4

FURTHER advices are to hand regarding the railway disaster which took place on Thursday last in the State of Illinois. The accident occurred at night. The train,…

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