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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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Drowned in a Waterhole

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 4

DUBBO, Saturday.—A boy named Lionel Barlow, aged II years, was drowned on Friday afternoon in a large waterhole in the gravel pits, near Dubbo. Deceased,…

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News by Cable. Collision in the Straits of Magellan. LONDON, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 2

Intelligence has reached London to the effect that a collision took place in the Straits of Magellan between the steamer Cotopaxi and the German steamer Olympia. The crew and…

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Strange Shooting Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 4

A SAD shooting fatality occurred between the hours of 1and 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon, when a young man named William James Gannon, but known as William White, was shot…

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Rocket Accident in Chicago. LONDON, May 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 3

During a display of fireworks in Chicago last night a rocket was discharged amongst the crowd of spectators. Several hundred persons were seriously burnt, many being crushed in the…

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Terrible Quarry Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 4

A serious accident occurred at Hudson and Loveridge's quarry, Bowral, on Friday afternoon. A charge of powder which was being rammed exploded. Three men named Tomsett,…

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Railway Accident Near Junee. Six Passengers Injured

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 2

INFORMATION was received at the Sydney railway station about 9 o'clock on Sunday night that a railway accident had occurred during the afternoon about 60 miles past Junee. A…

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Railway Accident Near Junee.—Six Passengers Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 4

Information was recieved at the Sydney Railway Station about 9 o'clock on Sunday night that a railway accident had occurred during the afternoon about 60 miles post Junes. A…

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The Railway Accident Near Narandera

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 2

NARANDERA, Monday.—A serious accident happened to the Jerilderie mail train, which left here at 4 p.m. yesterday. Seven miles from here the embankment had given way, owing to the line…

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Singular Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 2

A remarkably singular fatal accident happened to a man named Henry Butler in the Protestant-hall, Sydney, on Monday night. About 10 minutes to 8 o'clock he was going…

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The Bowral Quarry Accident.—Death of One of the Victims

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 2

JOHM THOMAS, one of the three men so severely injured in the accident at Hudson and Loveridge's Quarry, Bowral, on Friday afternoon last, died in the Goulburn Hospital at a…

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Serious Railway Accident Near Narandera. an Embankment Washed Away. Five Passengers Seriously Hurt. Other Passengers Injured

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 May 1889 · page 3

A railway accident occurred to .the Jerilderie mail-train seven miles from here yesterday. An embankment was undermined by the heavy rain which had fallen, leaving…

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The Bowral Quarry Accident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 May 1889 · page 2

WE regret to state that John Thomas, one of the three men injured by the recent explosion at Messrs. Loveridge and Hudson's quarry at Bowral, died in the Goulburn hospital on Tuesday morning,…

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Railway Accident in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—When the 8.40 p.m. train from Frankston to Mornington Junction arrived at the junction tonight the guard and porter shunted some…

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The Cause of the Narrandera Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 3

MR. Vernon (Secretary to the Railway Department) and Mr. Angus (engineer attached to the personal staff of the Railway Commissioners), the members of…

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Collision off the Philippines. LONDON, May 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 May 1889 · page 4

A collision has occurred off the Philippine Islands by which 66 persons were drowned. Italy and America. LONDON, May 12…

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Colliery Accident in Pennsylvania. LONDON, May 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 May 1889 · page 4

A cage at Kaska Colliery Pennsylvania, fell 500ft., killing 10 colliers…

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Another Accident at Bowral Quarries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 May 1889 · page 4

Bowral, Saturday.—Another accident happened here to-day at Loveridge and Hudson's stone quarry. Two men named Murphy and Gordon were in the act of drawing a charge…

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Extraordinary Shooting Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 May 1889 · page 4

A SAD shooting fatality occurred between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon, when a young man named William James Gannon, but known as…

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The Narandera Railway Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 May 1889 · page 2

THE officials appointed to inquire into the railway accident near Narandera have returned to Sydney, and reported to the Commissioners the result of their…

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Serious Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The 2.15 train from Williamstown, containing persons who had been seeing the mail steamer Parramatta off, met with a serious accident shortly before 3 o'clock this…

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