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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

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Serious Accident at Randwick

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 2

IN the course of the race for Tattersall's Club Cup at Randwick on Monday afternoon, a serious accident resulted. When the horses were close to the Derby turn…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 2

AN accident of a peculiar nature and which has had a fatal termination happened on Friday evening last, to a youth named James Bourke, a resident of No…

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Terrible, Collision in the English Channel Destruction of a Dutch Passenger Steamer One Hundred and Thirty Two Lives Lost Heartrending Scenes

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 4 January 1888 · page 4

A TERRIBLE collision between two steamers occurred in the English Channel on the night of Saturday, November 19, by which nearly 140 lives were lost, in the screw…

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Sad Boating Fatality on the Hawkesbury

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 2

The correspondent of the S. M. Herald reports that a fatal boating accident occurred on the Hawkesbury River, near Peat's Ferry, on New Year's Day…

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Serious Accident at the Carrington Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 2

A MAN named Andrew Thompson was received into the hospital on Tuesday afternoon suffering severely from the effects of a blasting accident at the New Carrington Mine. At about…

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A Woman Found Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 3

The City Coroner hold an inquest on Friday, at the Soudan Hotel, George-street North, touching the death of a woman named Alice Newton [?]…

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Young Lady Drowned. Her Lover Makes Desperate Efforts to Save Her

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 4

A SAD and fatal boating accident occurred on the Hawkesbury River, near Peat's Ferry, on Sunday, New Year's' Day. Charles Coleman, a foreman in the employment of Messrs…

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Mining Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident happened at the New Carrington Gold and Silver Mine, near Marulan, on Wednesday. Two miners named Andrew Thompson and W. Trounce were working on…

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Drowning of a Young Lady at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1888 · page 2

News has been received in Braidwood that a young lady named Milne, of Sydney, who was on a visit to Mrs. Powell of Braidwood, was drowned whilst bathing at Charleyong on Wednesday…

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Railway Collision

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 3

Gosford, Thursday.—An accident happened on No. 8 contract of the Southern and Northern Junction Railway from the Hawkesbury to Gosford, yesterday, through the coupling on…

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Collision on the Northern Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 7

GOLEORD, Wednesday.—Blunt's two engines with a number of trucks attached to each, one going from Woy Woy to Gosford and the other from Gosford to Woy Woy, met to-day. The…

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Two Children Drowned at Armidale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 3

ARMIDALE, Thursday.—Yesterday a boy 10 years old and his sister, aged six years, children of Mr. George Davis, superintendent of Herbert Park station, were drowned in Cameron's Creek,…

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Accident at Mummell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 3

A SERIOUS accident occurred at Mummell on Wednesday afternoon last, the principal sufferers being Mrs. Hodge and Mrs. Osborne, two residents of that…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 4

As showing how simply an accident may occur we might mention that on Tuesday night last a little boy about four years of age named Arthur Gray, son of Mr. George Gray, of…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1888 · page 4

THE Ven. Archdeacon Puddicombe met with an accident yesterday afternoon whilst driving in his buggy through the back of the vehicle falling out and precipitating him to the ground…

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Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was receive in Young on Wednesday morning that on the previous evening three boys were drowned in a waterhole on the Hon. R. H. Roberts's Currawang station,…

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Frightful Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 2

AN accident of a most frightful character occurred on one of the late suburban trains on Tuesday night. It appears from the statement of those who were on the train or who were in…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon a fatal accident occurred to a child four years of age named Frederick Shipp, son of Mr. Henry Shipp of Gullen. It appears the deceased with an elder brother was…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held at Gounyan near Yass on Tuesday before Dr. Blake, coroner, on the body of Percival Oliver Maloni Davis, a lad about nine years of age, second son of Mr…

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Fatal Accident at Gullen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 4

AN inquest was held on Friday at the residence of Henry Shipp, farmer, Gullen, on the body of his young son who was killed on Thursday. The evidence showed…

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