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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 4

A FATAL accident took place at Stanmore railway station on Saturday evening. A porter named Thomas Finn, aged 19, who had only been sent to Stanmore a few days before,…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 2

An inquest was hold at the Goulburn Courthouse this (Thursday) morning, before Mr. Harold O'Brien, District Coroner, touching the death of John Waters, who was killed on the…

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Accident to Mr. H. S. Gannon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 4

MR H. S. Gannon, while playing in the cricket match, Union eleven versus tile banks, yesterday afternoon, was unfortunate enough to moot with a very painful accident. He was…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 4

MR. ALFRED NORMAN met with an accident about half-past 12 this morning. While driving along Market-street in his buggy the king-bolt came out and the two front wheels separated…

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Accident to the Rev. Canon Betts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 February 1891 · page 4

We (Bombala Times) are informed that on Tuesday night the Rev. Canon Betts was riding home when his horse shied and threw him, hurting him very severely. We are glad to…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 2

ON Wednesday last an old man named John Waters, who had been residing for many years at Laggan, was killed by being thrown from a buggy while being…

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A Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening a young man named Brown, living at Garfield, sustained injuries which resulted in his death this morning. He was leading a horse with a cart…

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Coroner's Inquest. Death From Accidental Injuries

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 4

As briefly stated in last Wednesday's issue a youth named Walter Horatins Brown, seventeen years of age, residing with his parents at Garfield, met with severe accident on…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4

A lad named Creigan, employed at Ball's Foundry Works, fell from the roof of one of the sheds yesterday afternoon, and sustained a slight concussion of the brain. He was attended by…

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Accidental Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4

AN inquest touching the death of Walter Horatius Brown was held on Friday at the Australian Arms Hotel, the jury having first been empanelled at deseased's residence and…

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Fatal Accident at the Redfern Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident, which resulted in the death of an old man named Thomas Collins, a hatter, of George-street, occurred on Thursday night at the railway station. It appears that…

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Sad Fatality at Bathurst

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

NEWS was received in town yesterday morning of a sad fatality near Bathurst by which Mr. George Wiles, a well-known resident of Goulburn, lost his life. He was employed as a…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 2

YESTERDAY, whilst a little girl of Mr. Wm. Willis's was playing about the cow-yards at her father's residence, a few miles from town, she was knocked down…

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Fatality at Bathurst

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 4

IN our last issue we published in our telegraphic news a brief account of the accident to Mr. Wiles, a resident of Goulburn. From an exchange published in that town we reprint the following fuller…

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Accidents in the Country

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 3

A man named Betts, in the employ of Mr. Lonsdown, of Breadulbane, was driving a three horse dray along the Boxer's Creek road this week when one of the wheels came into contact…

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Accident at Woodhouselce

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

THE circumstances attending the accident to Mr. W. Gallaher, though obtained from an apparently reliable source, were incorrectly reported. The accident occurred three miles…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 March 1891 · page 2

THE Bathurst Times gives the following particulars of the death of Mr. George Wiles, who was well known in this district as a travelling agent for the Singer…

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Fatal Accident with a Cadet Rifle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1891 · page 4

Wagga, Tuesday.—A little girl named Stewart was accidentally killed at 6 o'clock this evening. She, with her brother, a few years older, and several children, were playing at Ito residence…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 8

Milton, Tuesday.—A sad case of drownking occurred at Congolo Lake on Sunday last man named James Peak, a carpenter and joi[?] went out for a day's fishing on the lake. As he…

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Fatality in a Family

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

Mr. H. EVANS, who had been in business in Goulburn for some time as hairdresser and tobacconist, died this morning from inflammation of the bowels. Mr. Evans had only recently…

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