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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accident in Auburn-street

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1891 · page 2

AT about one o'clock this afternoon a singular accident happened to a hansom-cab which was being driven leisurely along Auburn-street. The belly-band became unfastened…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 19 June 1891 · page 5

AN accident of a frightful nature happened about twenty minutes to ten o'clock on Thursday morning in the vicinity of the Eveleigh railway-station, the scene of many…

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Terrible Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Brown, a very old resident of Major's Creek, met with a terrible accident on Tuesday. It appears he was out shooting, when by some means or…

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Fatal Accident at the St. Mary's Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

ST. MARY'S, Friday.—A sad accident happened at the railway station here by which a young lad named Colless lost his life. It seems that he was attempting…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

A FATAL railway accident occurred on Thursday morning at about half-past 9, near the scene of previous casualties—in the Redfern tunnel. A man named…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 June 1891 · page 3

THE police received intelligence this morning that a man was supposed to have been drowned in the Socley River at Kingsdale crossing on the Crookwell road, about four miles from…

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Sad Drowning Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 2

SOFALA, Monday.—Miss Tobin, daughter of Mr. John Tobin, of Sofala, 21 years of age, while crossing the river three miles above Sofala on horseback this morning was drowned. The…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 2

MR, JOHN BROOKS, a well-known and respected resident of the city, met his death by drowning yesterday at the Kingsdale crossing of the Sooley Valley Creek, which is in a flooded…

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Fatal Drowning Occurrence

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 June 1891 · page 2

FOR some time past we have been calling attention to the extremely dangerous state of the Kingsdale crossing, and it was freely stated that unless something…

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The Late Case of Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1891 · page 2

ALTHOUGH an unremitting search has been kept up, the body of the unfortunate man John Brooks, whose death by drowning at the Kingsdale crossing was reported in lest issue,…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1891 · page 2

As Mr, Seymour Middleton, son of Mr. C. S. Middleton, telegraph-master, was crossing Montague-street yesterday afternoon, he slipped on a feel-bridge and falling heavily on…

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The Recent Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1891 · page 2

WE regret to state that so far all attempts to recover the body of Mr. John Brooks, drowned at the Kingsdale crossing on Monday morning, have been unavailing A misapprehension has…

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Railway Collision in Ireland. LONDON, June 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1891 · page 4

A train laden with a militia regiment stationed at Londonderry came into collision with an empty train on the outskirts of Londonderry. The driver and stoker of the train containing…

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The Late Fatality at Kingsdale

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 June 1891 · page 4

No trace has yet been met with of the body of Mr. John Brcoks, who lost his life on Monday whilst attempting to cross the Sooley River at Kingsdale. Partios are engaged in the…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred early on Friday evening at the foot of Brickfieldhill, George-street. One of the fourhorse railway omnibuses belonging to the…

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The Drowning Fatality at Kingsdale. Magisterial Inquiry

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 June 1891 · page 2

THE body of Mr. John Brooks, who was drowned on Monday last whilst crossing the Sooley Creek, at Kingsdale crossing, was recovered yesterday afternoon in two feet of…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 2

A PECULIAR accident happened to a lad named Ernest Blatchford on Saturday afternoon. It appears he was in one of the barbers' shops, and when reaching out for something his arm came…

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The Drowning Fatality at Kingsdale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

THE body of Mr. John Brooks, who was drowned on Monday week while crossing the Sooley Creek, at Kingsdale crossing, was recovered on Sunday afternoon in…

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Drowned in Cooma Creek

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

A MAN named Thomas Lachlan was drowned in Cooma Creek on Friday night while attempting to cross it, the creek being flooded. The body was carried thirteen miles, and…

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Drowned while Picking up Pumpkins

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Nowra states that John Radnor, blacksmith of Coolangatta, was drowned and washed away to sea by the flood on Sunday last. The deceased was in a boat…

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