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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents
354 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 18
A calamity unparalleled in the history of encampments occurred on Friday off Middle Head, when a torpedo suddenly exploded, killing four persons and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALL through Sunday night water police were out in Cobbler’s Bay dragging for the remains of those who were killed. But the task was a hopeless one. The force of the explosion had been so great that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME excitement was caused in Auburn-street at three o'clock the afternoon, by a collision between two vehicle. A waggonette driven by Mrs. Rooke and containing Mrs. Sims of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN accident happened in Auburn-street yesterday afternoon, occasioned by the collision of two vehicles, which fortunately had no serious results. A waggonette driven by Mrs. Rooke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD accident attended by fatal results occurred at the Rylstone railway station last Wednesday morning, shortly after the departure of the mail train to Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PENAITH, Friday.—John or Patrick Kiernan, a middle-aged man, a ganger working near the Pearith railway station, was run over and killed by a passing train this morning. The body was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the afternoon performance on Saturday, a puff of wind caused the tent to flap and dislodged one of the poles, which fell amongst a group of children who were witnessing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APOCT half-past ten this morning Henry Smith. plasterer, met with an accident which it is feared will result totally, through falling from a scaffold at The Towers, Mr. C. Rogers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT was reported in our last issue that Henry Smith, plasterer, had met with a serious injury on Wednesday morning by a fall of forty feet whilst working on a scaffold at The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DID the finding of that article save the man's life? That is the question. Is there a divinity that shapes our ends ? of are events but a mere series of accidents,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE man named Henry Smith, who fell from a scaffolding on Wednesday morning at the residence of Mr. Charles Rogers, Brisbane Grove and sustained a fracture of the skull, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A bill was passed by the New York legislature in 1888, providing for free lectures in public schools of that city. On the evening of November 17 a course of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A VERY serious accident occurred to a little boy this morning, a son of Mr. Arthur Weatherby, of Bradley-street. He was sitting on the kerb-stone in front of Mr. P. McShane's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LITTLE boy, son of Mr. Arthur Weather by, received a serious kick from a horse on Saturday day whilst sitting on the kerbing near Mr. Mc Shane's store. The boy was struck on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—This evening a child, aged 17 months, named Brigden, was left alone playing in the front room of its parents' residence at Williamstown. When the parents…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE little son of Mr. Arthur Weatherby who was kicked by a horse on Saturday morning is doing well. It seems the child, who is about air years of age, was sent by his another on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Shortly after 6 o'clock on Saturday evening a signalman named John Coffey, aged 56, who was in charge of at level crossing at Arden-street, North Melbourne, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LAD named Ernest John McKinnon, aged 14 years, son of Mr. McKinnon, mail contractor of Marulan, was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital on Sunday evening, suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday afternoon last a boy named Me Kennon, aged Fourteen, residing with his parents at Marulan, was very badly injured, carelessness in the use of a gun being the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HENRY HERBERT, miner, an old resident of Araluen, was killed on Thursday last by the earth of a drive falling on him. He was alone when the accident happened, and it…
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