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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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The Late Drowning Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 January 1887 · page 4

THE search for the body of the late Mr. Steele, drowned whilst attempting to cross the Wollondilly River on Wednesday, was continued yesterday, but without success,…

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Death by Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 4

ON Tuesday last a woodcarter named Thomas Lynch, 46 years of age, it was reported, had been drowned by the flood water of the Murrumbidgee River, which…

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The Late Case of Drowning at Towrang

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 2

THE body of the Henry Steele, district court bailiff, who was drowned on last Wednesday morning whilst attempting to cross the Wollondilly River in a buggy at Brabham's Crossing, Towrang, was…

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Terrible Collision—365 Lives Lost. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 February 1887 · page 2

A DISASTROUS collisions has occurred at sea. The immigrant ship Kapunda, bound for Western Australia, was sunk and 365 lives lost…

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Sad Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1887 · page 2

SHORTLY after 6 o'clock last evening Mr. Arthur Bloomfield, of Marranumbla station, in the Manaro district, alighted from his horse in front of the Cooma Hotel, on the Braidwood…

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Terrible Accident to a Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1887 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL, accident occurred yesterday shortly after the dinner hour at Messrs. R. T. Ball and Co.'s iron foundry in Bourke-street. A workman named Gibbons was attending to…

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Fatal Collision at Sea. London, Jan. 31

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 February 1887 · page 4

Intelligence has just been received from Bahia that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson and Company's ship Kapunda, 1095 tons, from London, December 11, and Plymouth 18th, bound for Fremantle, Western…

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Collision at Sea and Terrible Loss of Life. London, January 31

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 February 1887 · page 2

Intelligence has just been received from Bahia that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson, and Company's ship Kapunda, 1095 tons, from London December 11, and Plymouth…

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Terrible Disaster at Sea. Total Loss of the Ship Kapunda 300 Emigrants Drowned. London, Jan. 31 (Afternoon)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 February 1887 · page 4

Intelligence has just been received here from Bahia, that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson, and Co.’s ship. Kapunds, 1,095 tons, which left London on December 11, and Plymouth 18th…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 2

A SHOCKING buggy accident occurred on Sunday afternoon on the Braidwood road, which resulted in a young woman being killed almost instantaneously. Mrs. Penfold, with two…

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Dynamite Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 February 1887 · page 2

A Mr. Wheller, of Boro, who is the owner of a tin mine, while working a new piece of ground yesterday laid a charge of dynamite, and after igniting the fuse retired to a safe distance. As…

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The Late Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 2

MRS. PENGOLD'S infant, who was one of the occupants of the buggy concerned in the accident on Sunday last, when the unfortunate girl Carter met with her death, died yesterday morning…

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The Late Fatal Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 3

It will be remembered that Mrs. Penfold had her two children with her at the time that Miss A. Carter met her death through a buggy accident on Sunday afternoon…

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Dynamite Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 February 1887 · page 2

On Monday last Mr. Whitter of Bore, owner of a tin mine in that district, received severe injuries through the explosion of a charge of dynamite. It appears that he was…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 4

A MAN named Richard Joyce sustained a severe accident under unusual circumstances at Mr. Gibson's, Tarranna, this morning. A bullock was killed last night…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1887 · page 2

MR. H. GOLDSMITH, truant inspector, met with a serious accident last week, the effects of which are likely to trouble him for some time. HE was standing in Joshua-street, talking to a…

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A Girl Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 4

INFORMATION of a sad drowning case near Red bank, Lane Cove river, reached the water police at a late hour on Monday evening. A young girl, daughter of Mr. Fuller, of Cockatoo…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 2

ON Tuesday last a man named Walkom, engaged in the railway workshops, while working at the forge sustained a painful accident, a large piece of iron flying off and burying itself in his…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1887 · page 2

A MAN named Callaghan was seriously injured about the head, face, and shoulders last night by being thrown off his horse in Grafton-street. The accident happened between 8 and 9 o'clock…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 2

WHILST Mr. Beresford, of Marulan, was holding a horse on Friday for Mr. Flanagan to mount, the animal become restive and Mr. Beresford was somehow struck in the face with…

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