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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Fatal Gun Accident at Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon at about half-past 4 o'clock Mr. Matthew Lynch, blacksmith, of Tarago, was out shooting at Lake Bathurst, when he received injuries which resulted in his…

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Coroner's Inquest. Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 3

AN inquest was held yesterday at the hospital before the coroner, Mr. H. O'Brien, on the body of Matthew Lynch, who, as previously reported, accidentally shot himself at Lake…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning a boy named William Redwood, working at Messrs. R. T. Ball and Co.'s foundry, had the misfortune to have the first finger of his left hand caught in a…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 2

Thomas Pitty, formerly a well-known resident of Goulburn, now a railway guard, residing in William-street, Redfern, was on Saturday afternoon admitted to the Prince Alfred Hospital,…

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Fatal Accident at Lake Bathurst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 4

AN inquest was held at the Goulburn Hospital on Tuesday afternoon before Mr. Harold O'Brien, district coroner, touching the death of Matthew Lynch, who died in the institution…

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The Mining Accident near Mount Mc Donald

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

MOUNT McDONALD, Friday.—The Battery Point Mine, where two men were buried yesterday by a fall of earth in a tunnel, is situated at the junction of the Lachlau and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

ONE man was brought before the Police-Magistrate on a charge of having been drunk in a public place on the previous night. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s with the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

A GIRL named Elsie Smith, who resides with her mother in Clifford-street, while playing in the recreation-ground on Wednesday fell upon a broken glass bottle and cut her arm badly. The…

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Sad Bathing Fatality. Two Boys Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 February 1891 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon a sad i anything fatality occurred in the Mulwarree Pounds, by which two lads were drowned, namely, Thomas Hildebrand, aged about sevents in, son of Mr…

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Another Sad Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 4

IT will be remembered that only a short time ago two boys, members of the Superior Public School Cadet Corps, lost their lives by drowning. On Sunday afternoon last a similar fatality…

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A Thousand Persons Drowned. LONDON, Feb. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 4

Terrible floods have taken place in certain districts of China, and have spread desolation in their course. At present it is estimated that not less than 1000 persons have been drowned…

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Peculiar Accident at an Auction Sale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—During an auction sale in Wolfe-street on Saturday afternoon, a man named Thomas Shaw, who was assisting the auctioneer, Mr. W. Grahame, took up a…

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Fatal Accident Through Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 2

AN accident, attended with fatal results, happened to a young man named James Little, 20 years of age, who resided at Burwood, on Saturday afternoon. He was playing in a…

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Fatal Accident at Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 4

MOSS. VALE, Saturday.—While and old man named Joseph Starkey, aged 72 years, working for Mr. Richard Allen, was digging clay for brick-making, about 3owt. of clay fell on him…

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Two Boys Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon a sad bathing fatality occurred in the Mulwarree Ponds at Goulburn, by which two lads were drowned, namely, Thomas Hildebrand, aged about seventeen,…

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A Serious Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 2

LAST Saturday week, Mr. John Pitty, railway guard, at present residing in Redfern, Sydney, and well known in Crookwell, where he lived for some years,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 2

MR. R. FENWICK, jun., of the Yass Road, met with an accident on Tuesday. He was riding a young horse which he had bought at the sale-yards, and near the South Goulburn Public…

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The Late Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 3

REFERRING to the above the Moss Vale Scrutineer says:—deceased lad Hildebrand was the son of Mr. Severs Hildebrand, pumper on the railway line, at Barber's Creek. Much…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 4

MR. T. Wilkie, jun., while working at Messrs. Wilkie Brothers' saw-mills and joinery mills on Thursday, had his left hand esught in the cogwheels, of some machinery, the second finger…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident occurred to Robert H. Geoghegan, son of the foreman at the Council's pumping station, on Friday last. He was cleaning out one of the boilers when by some…

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