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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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Goulburn Herald · Saturday 19 February 1887 · page 4

ACCIDENTH.—On Wednesday night last a man named Callaghan, in the employ of Mr. Mc Shane, produce dealer, whilst in a state of intoxication was amusing himself with riding his horse along the…

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Fearful Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1887 · page 4

THE Melbourne Telegraph of Thursday says:— "A fearful accident, culminating in the death of a young man named William Baker, 31 years of age, occurred on Wednesday morning at the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 2

A LITTLE girl named Daisy Best, living with Mrs. Line in Clifford-street, fell out of bed on Thursday night, one of her arms being thereby broken. The services of Dr. McKillop were…

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A Harbour Collision. Sinking of a Large Ferry Boat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 4

AT a quarter-past ii the Well-known Manly steamer Emu left the wharf on her last trip to Manly having on board 8o passengers, among whom were a number of ladies. The steamer…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 2
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MR. H. PETERS, of Mummell, met with an accident on Saturday morning last whilst roping a young horse. The rope by which he hold the animal became entangled round Mr…

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Accident at Rifle Drill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 4

A RATHER unfortunate accident occurred on Tuesday evening while the Dubbo cadets and volunteers were at drill. It appears they had loaded with blank…

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Railway Accident at Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 4

THE train which left Williamstown early on Thursday morning met with an accident at the Spencer-street railway station by which several persons were injured…

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Accident

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

As Dr. Mo Killop was driving in Sloane-street on Saturday afternoon last his horse took fright near Conolly's mill at a heap of rubbish in the road, and the buggy came in contact with a…

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Accident

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

ABOUT eight o'clock on Tuesday morning Mr. S. B. Crouch, of Burtfield, Run of Water, while stopping a cow in the yard was knocked down, and fell with his head upon a rail. He sustained…

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Fatal Accident on the Carcoar Railway Works

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 4

ON Wednesday, 3rd instant, the Carcoar District Coroner (Mr. J. O. Dodd) held an inquest on the body of George Bullman, engaged on the line of railway now in course of construction…

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Serious Accident to a Railway Passenger

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

A SERIOUS accident occurred at Springwood, Mount Victoria, on Saturday night. A passenger by the mail train from Sydney (Mr. Fegan of Dubbo) was standing on the platform…

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A Sad Fatality -- Four Brave Young Men

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 March 1887 · page 4

THE Warnambool correspondent of the Argus gives the fallowing particulars of the sad case of drowning which occurred on Sunday in the vicinity of Shelly Beach. A family named…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 March 1887 · page 3

ON Monday last, whilst in the act of attending a horse a man named William Rolles, in the employ of Mr. Andrew Cu[?]mings, of Brooklands, received a…

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Sad Fatality—four Brave Young Men

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 2

The Warnambool correspondent of the Argus gives the following particulars of a sad case of drowning which occurred on Sunday in the vicinity of Shelly Beach…

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Narrow Escape from a Serious Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1887 · page 2

IT has just leaked out that a narrow escape from a terrible catastrophe occurred on the morning of March 7, near the Flinders-street railway station, Melbourne. The express train…

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Drowned in a Bucket

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 4

ON Monday an inquest was held at the Club House Hotel, Bathurst, before the district coroner, touching the death of Nelly Ennis, an infant, aged about sixteen months, who had…

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Fatal Accident From a Falling Tree.--three Lives Lost

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 4

AN accident occurred near Circular Head, Tasmania, on the 6th instant, by which Mr. Frederick John Harman and two boys, named Watkin George Ducket and John William…

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A Frightful Accident. a Texan Cowboy Swallowed Up in a Fiery Furnace

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 4

RECENTLY a party of cowboys from some distance north of the burning coalfields of the Powder River country started out on a trip through the cattle district to the southward, to…

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Fatal Accident to Mr. John Chisholm

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 4

It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the sad news of the death by accident of Mr. John Chisholm of Wollogorang, eldest son of Mr. J. W…

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