Two Persons Drowned While Crossing a Creek
A GLOOM was cast over the town on March 18th (says the Cairns Post of Queensland), when it was reported that Mr. T. R. S. Hook and Mr. James Hill had been drowned when…
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Accidents, 1887
343 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 18
Accident
MR. SOLEY, a resident of the Taralga district, met with a very painful accident on Friday last whilst chopping a tree. His axe caught in a limb and fell on his left foot, inflicting such…
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ON Saturday last an inquest was held at Wollogorang by the coroner, Mr. A. M. Betts, to enquire into the cause of the death of John William Chisholm. The following evidence was…
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ON Saturday Mr. Betts, coroner, held an inquest at Wollegorang touching the death of Mr. John Chisholm, which was briefly reported in last issue. The following evidence was given:—…
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AN accident of a painful nature happened to Ethel Grimson, a child about ten years of ago, at the tea-meeting at the Primitive Methodist chapel on Monday…
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A LITTLE boy, about five years old, son of a man named, Casey, was accidentally. killed at Queanbeyan on Thursday night. The child, it appears, had boon 'with several others riding…
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A terrible gun accident happened at Mudgee on Friday morning, when a boy aged 7, named Glaney, accidentally shot a boy named Snoider, aged 4. The two lads wore playing together in…
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A VERY painful accident occurred on Saturday forenoon last to a man named Samuel Yeadon, which it is fortunate was not attended with fatal results. Mr. Yeadon was bringing in a two-ton…
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LAST Saturday evening, as Mr. R. Kennedy, jun., was passing down a lane off Auburn-street, Goulburn, in which a shooting gallery was in full swing, a…
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A SERIES of rifle matches was held at Uralla on Easter Monday, and in connection therewith a serious accident occurred, which shows the necessity of the greatest care in the use of…
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A PECULIAR boating accident happened at Balmain on Monday. Early in the evening two men, named respectively Neil Erickson and John Martin, found a small boat near Johnston's Bay…
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A shocking railway accident happened at the North Melbourne station about 20 minutes to 7 on Saturday evening (the Melbourne Telegraph reports), whereby…
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ON last Sunday week a girl named Parr sustained a fracture of the arm through the upsetting of a buggy at Woodhouseleo, and was attended to by Dr. Gentle On Saturday last…
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A SHOCKING affair occurred at Leichhardt on Tuesday evening, when a young girl, 17 years of age, named Mary Juno Evans, a domestic servant, fell from the tram, and was instantly…
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MR. HERBERT KENNEDY, the we[?] known bricklayer, met with a pain [?]the accident on Friday last. He was used [?] mortar off the same board as his [?]…
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A telegram from Brisbane records a disastrous steamship collision, advice of which were received as follows by the R. M. S. Derunia via Cooktown;— On the night of the 29th March, between Fermoss…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The British India steamer Dor[?]da from London arrived in Cooktown yesterday, and brings news of a terrible shipping catastrophe on the night of March 29. Between…
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Cooktown, Friday.—The following are the particulars regarding the loss of the steamer Benton, run down off Batu Point, Malacca, by the Fair Penang, on the night of April 2:—…
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YESTERDAY evening, while playing, a son of Mr. E. Laws, Bradley-street, fell from a loft. In addition to some painful bruises on the face and hip, the bone of one arm was found to be…
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WHILE Mr. J. Kelly, of Marulan, with his wife and daughter, was driving towards Goulburn yesterday, the horse shied at some pipes on the road and upset the buggy. All three were…
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