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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

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Fatal Accident at Junee

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 2

A Points-cleaner, named George Strickland, was run over by a train which was being shunted at Junce junction on Thursday last, and died the same evening from the…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 2

AT about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night a man named Henry Baker, 60 years of age, missed his footing in endeavouring to stop from a railway carriage on to the down-line platform at the…

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Another Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 2

ON the arrival of the No. 1 down goods train at Harden at 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning it was found that the guard, Thomas Maloney, was not in his van. The news was telegraphed to…

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Serious Accident to Mr. Rosevear Smith

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 2

THE public generally and more particularly those who are in any way connected with the Mechanics' Institute will regret to hear that Mr. Smith, the librarian, met with a very serious…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 4

On Monday a young man named Charles Brown was bringing a load of wood into town for Mr. C. Blake, of Green Gully, and when about three miles from town he stopped to…

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The Fatal Accident at Bowral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 4

GEORGE RAWLINGS, a Mittagong railway bridge labourer, employed lately in repairing the bridge a short distance north of Bowral station, fell off while crossing the bridge about…

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Melancholy Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 May 1887 · page 2

MELANCHOLY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— A sad and fatal accident occurred at Rocky Ponds about [?] past eleven on Monday night to a railway-guard named Thomas Maloney, a well-known resident of…

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Fatal Accident at Rocky Psonds

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 2

A SAD and fatal accident occurred at half-paft 11 on Monday night to a railway guard named Thomas Maloney, a wellknown resident of Goulburn. The…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 2

WE regret very much having to record the death of Mr. Thomas Maloney, railway guard, who met with a fatal accident whilst on a journey from Goulburn to…

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The Windsor Railway Accident. Further Disclosures. Melbourne

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 3

THE inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor railway accident was resumed this morning. Mr. Gedge, the Prahran stationmaster, put in the correspondence which had…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 2

EDWARD STONE, a Vernon boy, about 16 years of ago, in the employ of Roxbrough Bros., of Burramunda, Young, was killed on Friday afternoon. He was sent to take home a dray borrowed…

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The Accident to Guard Malonoy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

A GENTLEMAN travelling in the train at the time of the accident to Guard Maloncy supplies the following particulars to the Yass Courier:—Many of your readers…

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The Late Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 4
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AN inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Rosevear Smith was hold by Mr. A. M. Betts (coroner) on Saturday afternoon last. The following evidence was…

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The Windsor Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 2

THE most sensational evidence given on Monday at the inquest on the deaths resulting from the Windsor railway accident was that given by R. R. Cameron, seedsman at Prahran, who was…

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The Colliery Accident in Scotland. London, May 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 2

The terrible explosion at Udston Colliery, near Glasgow, by which 70 lives were lost, is to be the subject of a searching inquiry. A large number of bodies have been recovered,…

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Accidental Death

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 2

AN inquest on the body of an Asylum boy named Edward Stone, who was accidentally killed by a dray capsizing on last Friday afternoon, was held at Mr. Hugh Roxburgh’s dwelling-house at…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 2

MR. E. BLACKSHAW, residing in Auburn Terrace, met with a slight but extremely painful accident yesterday. Tile lid of a orate fell upon him, and a two inch nail penetrated…

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Fearful Accident

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

A terrible accident occurred at Ardoch Station, Queensland, on Monday, resulting in a man named James Campbell being frightfully scalded all over his body, head, arms, and legs. It…

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