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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 August 1891 · page 4

ON Thursday a lad named Armitage Brown, son of Mr. W. Brown, of the Wollondale Gardene, wan thrown from a pony ho was riding and severely injured his right arm. The…

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Five Children Injured by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 August 1891 · page 4

GUNNEDAH, Saturday.—Five children narrowly escaped being burnt to death last night. They were sleeping in a waggonette when a candle ignited the blankets. One child, eight…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 August 1891 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred on Saturday night at the Newtown railway station to a man named John Droney. Deceased was 19 years of age, a labourer working on the railway quadruplication…

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A Fatality and Sudden Death of a Doctor

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 3

MORUYA, Thursday.--A child about 18 months old, son of John Donovan, Moruya, was found about noon to-day in a well containing about n foot of water,…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 2

MR. GEORGE WICKHAM J.P., clerk of petty sessions, Parramatta, is incapacitated from duty by a peculiar accident. Whilst attending to his fewls, a very large Plymouth-rock rooster…

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Peculiar Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 3

MURRUMBURRAH, Friday.--An inquest on the body of Charles McCabe was held at Curraweng yesterday. The evidence was to the effect that tho deceased…

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Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 August 1891 · page 2

A PEDESTRIAN and a bicyclist crossed swords in Auburn-street this morning, with the result that the pedestrian went down first and the bicyclist on top of him, no serious results…

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Alarming Balloon Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 August 1891 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Fernandez, a parachutist, had a very narrow escape of being killed on Saturday afternoon. He made an ascent at Harrisville. After reaching a considerable…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 August 1891 · page 3

A FATAL accident occurred on Lake Illawarra on Saturday. Two men went out in a boat duck-shooting. One of the men fired at some ducks, when his mate (named Chalmers)…

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Railway Collision in Switzerland. LONDON, Aug. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 2

A terrible railway collision has occurred at Berne, in Switzerland, where a festival was being held. The passengers in both trains were principally visitors to the festival…

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Return of Railway Accidents in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—According to a return presented to the Assembly this evening no fewer than 109 accidents are known to have occurred on the Victorian railways for the 19…

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Fatal Collision

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 3

As detective Charles Abbott was driving with his wife at North Sydney on Sunday afternoon the horse shied at a tram, and the buggy collided with a lamp-post,…

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Serious Gun Accident at Junee

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 2

A GUN accident occurred at Junee on Tuesday, by which a young man employed at Mr. Symington's fancy goods shop sustained severe injuries. The gun had boon left for…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 3

ON Sunday evening Mr. Thomas Charnock had the misfortune to break his right arm above the wrist in the same place as it was broken about three months…

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Accidents to Boys

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 2

Yesterday a lad named Level Lake fell off a load of chaff and fractured the small bone of his arm. Dr. McMaster's services were called into requisition and the fracture successfully reduced…

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Serious Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 4

JUNEE, Tuesday.—A gun accident occurred to-day by which a young man employed at Mr. Symington's fancy goods shop sustained severe injuries. The gun had been left for repairs, and…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 4

THIS morning William Hobson, stonemason, employed by the railway department, left Goulburn on a railway tricycle for Yerra to carry out some work there. He had travelled…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 4

ON Wednesday afternoon a lad named Lovel Lake fell off a lead of chaff and fractured the small bone of his arm. Dr. McMaster reduced the fracture. The same afternoon a…

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Accident at Yarra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 4

MR. WILLIAM HOBSON, a stonemason employed on the railway line, and who was working at the Yarra platform, met with a serious accident yesterday morning while proceeding to…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 3

AN accident of a painful nature occurred this afternoon to a little girl, ages two years, named May Breuix daughter of Mr. Breuix, residing in Mundy-street. The child while…

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