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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1890

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Fatal Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 4

NEWS has been received in town of a fatal accident which occurred near Binda on Friday morning. A girl named Annie Ralph, a servant employed at Mr. J. Marsden's, was thrown or…

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Accidental Death

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 March 1890 · page 2

ON Saturday last an inquest was held at Sylvia Vale, before Mr. S. L. Cox, district coroner, touching the death of Annie Ralph, aged 10 years, who was…

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The Late Fatal Accident. to the Editor

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 March 1890 · page 3

SIR,--I have just read your account of the proceedings which took place at the inquest held on the body of William Joseph Lawler, and I am surprised that…

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Singular Case of Drowning at Seaham

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 March 1890 · page 4

LAST Month, at the residence of Mrs. J. Wilson, Seaham, the inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Jamas Canning who was drowned in the Williams river on…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 4

QUITE a gloom has been cast over this district by the fatal accident that occurred to William J. Lawler when returning home from church at, Laggan on last Sunday. He was in company…

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Drowning at Quirindi. [?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

A man named H. London was trying to cross Kenwood Creck last might, the creck being flooded. He was wasted off his horse and drowned. His [?] has not yet been Found. It is supposed the…

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Accidental Death at Binda

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 6

ON Saturday last an inquest was held at Sylvia Vale, before Mr. S. L. Cox, district coroner, touching the death of Annie Ralph, aged 16 years, who was…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Transit Stopped for Three Day(from the Echo Correspondents.)penrith

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 2

The town was thrown into a[?]tnte of alarm today by the report of a fearful accident near Mount Wilson station. From inquiries it appears that a goods train, No 23, which leaven Penrith at 12.50…

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Railway Accident at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 March 1890 · page 4

Own correspondent gives particulars of a railway accident which occurred at Bungendore on Saturday morning. Fortunately there was no loss of life…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway at Penrith

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

PENRITH, Thursday.—At 10.50 this morning a woman named Parsons, wife of a fettler at present employed on the railway at Emu Plains, was killed at Heard's Crossing. She was about…

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Accidents at the Show-Grounds

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

A buggy accident attended with serious results to two persons occurred at the show-grounds yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. Downes, of Sydney, with Mr. Rowlands, of Mittagong, the latter…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

AN accident occurred to a lad named Patrick Clancy of rather a painful nature. It appears the lad went out with his father about seven miles from town to help to out a load of wood,…

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Discoveries Made by Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

CHLOROFORM, which has proved such an inestimable boon to thousands of sufferer, was discovered by chance. Dr. Simpson (who was afterwards knighted) set himself to…

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Accident to a Locomotive

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 2

THE passengers by the train from Cooma to Goulburn on Saturday Light last had a most unpleasant experience. On the arrival of the train at Micalago one of the tubes of the…

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Extraordinary Fatal Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 2

A fatal accident of a very extraordinary character occurred in Adelaide-street last night. Dr. J. Little, whose residence is situated on the high ground in Adelaide-street, was sitting in his…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 3

A MAN named Seymour, living at Kenmore, met with a painful accident on Thursday evening. While out riding his horse plunged and throw him heavily against a stone, inflicting a very…

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Extraordinary Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A fatal accident of a very extraordinary character occurred in Adelaide-street last night. Dr. J. Little, whose residence is situated on…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 4

Mr. Berryman, of Auburn-street while cutting a piece of leather, let the knife slip, which entered the first of his fingers, nearly severing it from the hand. He was attended to…

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Three People Killed—Others Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1890 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—A frightful accident occurred on the Newcastle New Wellsend Coal Company's railway line, near Cockle Creek, between 7 and 8 o'clock last night. A party…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1890 · page 2

ON Monday Dr. Morton was called upon to attend a boy named Ayling, a son of Mr. E. Ayling, of Grafton-street, who had fallen off a fence and fractured his left arm, also dislocating…

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