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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 April 1891 · page 2

LAST week a child aged about four years, son of Mr. John Gilby, residing near Crookwell, had the misfortune to break his log. The child was getting through…

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Serious Accident to a Stationmaster

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 May 1891 · page 3

MR. NEARY, stationmaster at Coolamon, met with a serious accident an Wednesday morning He was engaged in assisting the porter to shunt, and while uncoupling two trucks he…

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Railway Accident near London. LONDON, May 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 4

A serious railway accident has occurred at Norwood. While the Brighton train was passing over a bridge the structure collapsed, end six carriages of the train were completely wrecked…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 May 1891 · page 3

YESTERDAY a young man named Jeffrey, a resident of Wingello, fell from a tree and broke his arm. Dr. Morton attended the sufferer and reduced the fracture…

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Drowned in a Tub

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 2

A CHILD named Joseph Michael M'Quade, 15 months old, was drowned in a tub of water at its parents' residence, Rowley-street, Alexandria, on Saturday morning. The mother of the…

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The Lake Bathurst Boating Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 4

THE visitors to Messrs. John Taylor and Co's foundry (says the English Correspondent of the Sydney Herald) had the opportunity of inspecting a bell which Mr. Daly has ordered for…

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Accident at Wingello

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 4

A DAY or two ago a young man named Jeffrey, son of Mr. Jeffrey, of Wingello, was climbing a tree, when he fell, breaking his right arm. He was conveyed to Goulburn, and the…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 2

LAST Saturday evening Mr. Thomas Charnock, employed at Mr. J. M. Pedley's tailoring establishment, met with an accident in a very simple manner. He…

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Railway Accident at Culcairn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 4

ALBURY, Friday.—An accident happened to the Sydney express shortly after leaving Albury last night, which, though of a serious nature, resulted only in…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 4

MR. NEIL McINNES, of Middle Arm, was thrown from his horse in Auburn-street on Wednesday evening and rendered insensible. He was picked up some little time afterwards,…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 2

A YOUNG lad engaged in Baxter's boot factory met with a very painful and peculiar accident on Wednesday afternoon. He was buoy putting some brass eyelets in a number of boot tops,…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 15 May 1891 · page 5

A YOUNG lad employed in Boxtera' boot-factory, whilst putting eyelets in a boot-top on Wednesday managed to drive one of them under the nail of his left forefinger, embedding…

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Was It Providence or Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 May 1891 · page 1

DID the finding of that article save the man's life ! That is the question. Is there a divinity that shapes our ends ? or are events bat a mere series of accidents,…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 11 a.m. the Late Railway Collision at Culcairn

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 3

THE railway department has concluded its inquiry into the recent collision at Culcairn, and has reduced the drivers of the two express engines…

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Mysterious Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 May 1891 · page 4

A young woman was found, between 12 and 1 o'clock on Saturday morning, on the railway line between Burwood and Stratfield. She was identified during the day as Agnes Louisa…

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A Blasting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 2

BOWRAL, Wednesday.—A blasting accident happened at the Government stone quarries to-day. Several shots had been fired, but one missed. A workman named T. Kelcher was…

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Boating Fatality at Newcastle

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 4

ON Wednesday evening a fatal accident occurred near the coal port, Tomato, Lake Macquarie. Mr. Frederick Brunker, son of the minister for lands, his child (two years of…

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Accident to Mr. R. E. Zouch

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 3

WHILST driving home from the city on Wednesday evening a rather serious accident happened to Mr. R. E. Zouch, of Zouch and Gibson, auctioneers, which will incapacitate…

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Railway Collision at the Eveleigh Tunnel. an Engine-driver Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 May 1891 · page 3

THE approaches to the Eveleigh tunnel were on Thursday evening the scene of a terrible collision, resulting in the death of an enginedriver named Robert Bertram, and in severe…

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Accident to Mr. Zouch

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 May 1891 · page 3

MR. R. E. ZOUCH, of the firm of Messrs. Zouch and Gibson, was thrown from his buggy on Thursday afternoon on the Bungonia road, near McKenzie's dairy, and rendered…

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