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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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Gun Accident at a Hare Drive

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon, at a hare drive in the Laggan district, S. Seaman got shot in the leg by a gun going off accidentally. The shot went right through, also…

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Railway Accident at Penrith

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 June 1889 · page 2

PENRITH, Wednesday.—An accident happened here to the western mail train at an early hour this morning. No. 1 goods train was being prepared at Penrith to start for Bathurst…

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Shocking Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A sad catastrophe occurred early this morning it Mount Pleasant Creek, near Old Runnymede. A buggy and pair of horses conveying the Rev. Father Lawler, of…

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Narrow Escape from a Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 June 1889 · page 2

A NARROW escape from a fatal accident took place at Crookwell on Saturday. Mrs. Margaret Storrier, with her child, was being driven by John Lyons in a buggy to Goulburn. The horse…

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Shocking Fatality near Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 June 1889 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Lillias Smellie, aged 30, the wife of a tea merchant in Queen-street, suffering from hysteria, escaped the notice of her nurse end wandered from her home at Windsor…

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The Railway Collision at Armagh. LONDON, June 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 4

The coroner's inquest upon the victims of the recent railway collision at Armagh, in Ireland, in which a number of Sunday-school children were killed while returning from a picnic, has…

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The Newcastle Colliery Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 2

IT is estimated that 120 yards of fallen roof will have to be pierced before the spot where the Newcastle miners supposed to be entombed will be reached, and that 30 yards of roof will…

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Extraordinary Railway Accident in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 June 1889 · page 2

Melbourne, Wednesday.—An extraordinary accident occurred at Craigieburn station, on the main line to Wodonga, on Tuesday, by which a slight delay was caused to the Sydney express…

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Horrible Fatal Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 June 1889 · page 6

ON Thursday night an accident of a terrible nature happened on the railway line near Russell-street gates, Bathurst, by which Joseph Turton, the Locomotive…

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Peculiar Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 July 1889 · page 4

ON Sunday morning an assistant guard named James Griffin was killed, through falling out of the break-van of a goods train, between Wingello and Cable's Siding, on the Southern line,…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 July 1889 · page 2

A sad accident happened on Sunday morning last, by which James assistant guard travelling on the special return goods train, Goulburn to Sydney, lost his life. From the evidence given at an inquest…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 July 1889 · page 2

A Boy named Charles Farmer, son of Mr. George Farmer, carpenter, met with a rather serious accident yesterday morning. He was driving a pony and buggy belonging to Mr…

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Gunning. the Late Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 July 1889 · page 4

AN inquest was held on Monday before the District Coroner—Colonel Chisholm—touching the death of Samuel Wilson, who was killed on the previous Friday while returning home from…

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Frightful Railway Accident. a Woman Cut to Pieces

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 July 1889 · page 4

On Saturday evening last Mrs. Mabel Meredith, a widow residing in Pelham-street, Hawthorn, met with her death under very shocking and frightful circumstances at a level railway…

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Fatal Accident at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 3

The correspondent of the Queanbeyan Times writers:—A young girl, 12 years old, eldest daughter, of Mr. James Schofield, was standing on Saturday with her back to the fire, when…

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Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 July 1889 · page 2

ON Saturday a boy named George Franklin met with a singular accident at Crookwell. He was engaged outting wood with his companion, when one of the axes slipped, striking him on the…

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Fatality near Binda

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 July 1889 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatality occurred on Wednesday near Binds. Two sons of Mr. Carruthers were in a dray containing flour, when by some means the dray overturned, crushing the head of the…

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Mining Accident at Markdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 July 1889 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Tuesday.—A terrible accident happened at the Markdale Gold and Silver Mining Company's mine, Markdale, to-day. Between three and four o'clock Mr. Longmore,…

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The Lucinda-Garone Collision. LONDON, July 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 July 1889 · page 6

The appeal in the case resulting out of the collision between the mail steamer Garonne and the Lucinda has been dismissed…

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Accidents to Children

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 July 1889 · page 2

ON Sunday last a little boy named Champion, whose parents reside in Bradley-street, was playing with some other children at the railway time-table, and by some means a part of the…

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