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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1890

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Serious Accident to Sir Henry Parkes. Double Fracture of the Right Leg

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 May 1890 · page 4

ON Sunday afternoon Sir Henry Parkes met with a serious accident, which only by a miracle escaped being worse than it is in result. The Premier, with Lady Parkes, left his residence,…

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Serious Accident to Sir Henry Parkes

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 May 1890 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon Sir Henry Parkes met with a serious accident, which only by a miracle escaped being worse than it is in result. The Premier, with Lady Parkes, left his residence,…

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Accident to the Premier. Sir Henry and Lady Parkes Thrown From a Cab. a Serious Fracture

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 May 1890 · page 3

A SERIOUS accident [?] the Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, on Sunday afternoon [?] with Lady Parkes in a cab. The P[?]er and Lady Parkes left their residence, Hampton Villa,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 May 1890 · page 2

LAST Tuesday afternoon a child of Mrs. Stone Lansdowne, was severely out on the back of the head through the perambulator in which it was seated running off the footpath in front of Mr…

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Serious Accident to Sir Henry Parkes

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 May 1890 · page 3

ON Sunday afternoon Sir Henry Parkes met with a serious accident, which only by a miracle escaped being worse than it is in result. The Premier, with Lady…

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The Accident to the Premier

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 May 1890 · page 2

THE Evening News says:--The unfortunate accident which has befallen the venerable Premier will, it is safe to say, call forth universal feelings of regret, and…

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Cable Intelligence. the Accident to Sir H. Parkes

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 May 1890 · page 2

LONDON, May 19.-- The arrival of the news of the unfortunate accident to Sir Henry Parkes caused much regret among the public, and much sympathy has been evoked on his behalf. Apart…

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The Fatality at Burrowa Crossing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 4

Yass, Friday.—At the inquest to-day on the body of James Woodlands, fetter, killed by a train at Burrowa Crossing yesterday morning, a verdict was returned that deceased died from…

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Accidental Death by Burning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—On Tuesday last, as Eliza Griffiths, a respectable hardworking woman residing at Teralba, was washing linen at Hodges's Hotel, her apron caught fire. She tried…

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Accident at Irishtown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

A little boy named Liggins, whose parents live at Irishtown, was lighting a bonfire on Monday last, when he accidentally fell in burning his head and arm very severely. The…

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The Farley Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 4

AT half-past 10 o'clock on Friday night the jury in the inquiry into the death of young Mo Fadyn, killed in the Parley railway accident, returned the following verdict:—"We find that…

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Accident at Jerrawa

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

On Thursday a young man named Rolfe, son of Mr. Rolffe, of Jerrawa, fell from a stack of hay and bad both of his arms broken. Dr. Hosts attended the sufferer and reduced the fractures…

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Railway Accidents. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 3

SIR,—I notice a verdict of manslaughter has been recorded against some officials in the Fairley disaster. How about the accident near Bathurst? Is the game there too high for such…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

AN inquest was held at Mr. McDonnell's Commercial Hotel, Bowning, on Friday 23rd instant, before the District Coroner (Mr. N. T. Collins, J.P.) and the following jury: Messrs. John Styles…

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The Maitland Railway Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 May 1890 · page 2

A TELEGRAM to the Echo from West Maitland dated Friday says:--The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Bernard M'Fadden, who was killed in the recent railway…

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Fatality at Narrandera

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 2

MR. WALTER DANIEL, Bourke-street, this morning received a telegram from Narandera apprising him of the death by drowning of a man named Alex. McKay, a puntsman. The…

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Serious Railway Accident near Bourke

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident happened on Wednesday afternoon to the down mail train which left the Redfern terminus at 8 o'clock on Tuesday. evening, and which ordinarily runs from Nyngan…

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Fatal Accident on a Cattle Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 2

MURRURUNDI, Wednesday.—Thomas Ashbury, fireman on No. 14 cattle train, was killed when the train was coming up the range yesterday afternoon. He was doing something…

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Accident at Middle Arm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Yeadon, living at Middle Arm, sustained a severe accident on Wednesday afternoon. The axe he was using in cutting a log slipped and penetrated his left foot, a deep…

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Fatal Lift Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1890 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon a sad accident resulting in the death of a lad named George Walley, 16 years of age, occurred at M'Murtie and Co'.s boot warehouse, Clarence-street. The…

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