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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1891

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 2

A MAN named William Myles, living in Mundy-street, was thrown from his cart on Tuesday and sustained a fracture of the kneecap. He was jolted from his seat, through the…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 10 a.m. Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 July 1891 · page 3

A accident having a fatal termination occurred at the Australia Hotel Castlereagh-street, on Saturday evening, the victim being Mr. Henry E. Dickenson, engineer in charge…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 July 1891 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning a man named Henry Travis, who was working with another named T. Bills at Bonnie Doon, ringbarking for Mr. Henderson, experienced a painful accident. A…

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Terrible Gun Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 July 1891 · page 2

THE warship Cordelia returned to Sydney on Monday, and reports a terrible gun accident through the bursting of a gun on board. Further details show that…

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A Balloon Accident. LONDON, July 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

An accident is reported to have befallen balloon at Chicago, Illinois. During an ascent it was struck by lightning, two aeronauts being injured…

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Fatal Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

AN omnibus driver named Wm. Sutton, who was admitted into the Sydney Hospital on Sunday last, died on Wednesday afternoon in that institution. When admitted he was suffering…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

MR. McCULLOCH, the draper, had the misfortune to dislocate his shoulder on Sunday last. Dr. Hollis was called in, and attended to the injury…

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Accident at Windsor Castle. LONDON, July 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

During the progress of a Royal banquet at Windsor Castle much consternation was caused by the bursting of a water-pipe in the diningroom…

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Terrible Gun Accident on a War Ship. Five Men and a Boy Killed. Thirteen Men Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 July 1891 · page 2

"The surprise which the appearance of H.M.S. Cordelia in the harbor created on Monday morning deepened into excitement when it became known that her…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 July 1891 · page 5

A SHUNTER named Samuel Davis was killed near the Petersham railway station on Wednesday night when attempting to cross the line. His two children were with him at the…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 July 1891 · page 3

AT about five o'clock this evening, the driver of Dr. McKillop's buggy, whilst turning the corner of Clifford and Auburn streets at a smart pace, came into collision with a…

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A Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1891 · page 2

DR. MCKILLOP' buggy came in contact with the lamp-post at the corner of Auburn and Clifford-streets on Monday evening with the result that the shafts of the buggy were broken…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 July 1891 · page 3

MR. A. W. ANDERSON, clerk in the A.J.S. Bank, had the top of his right index finger taken off on Sunday evening last whilst using a chaff-cutter…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 July 1891 · page 2

MR. D. HANIGAN met with a painful accident it the railway station on Wednesday evening. He was assisting to put a 2001b. keg of butter on to one of the lorries, when the keg slipped…

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Strange Accident at Crookwell Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 July 1891 · page 2

CROOKWELL, Wednesday.—An accident occurred in the Public School this morning to Mary Gallagher, six years of age, daughter of the teacher. She was, with two other little…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 4

AN accident occurred in the public school, Crookwell, on Wednesday morning, to Mary Gallagher, six years of age, daughter of the toucher. She was with two other little girl…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 July 1891 · page 2

THE Southern Mail states that Martin Gleeson, a ganger employed by Mr. W. Ewart, railway contractor, was killed near the kerosene siding at Mittagong on Friday,…

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Gun Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 July 1891 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon Ernest McGuigan, a youth residing t Currawang, went out shooting with another youth named Rawson. In descending a rocky place McGuigan's gun,…

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Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 July 1891 · page 2

EARNEST MCGUIGAM, a lad aged 12, was admitted to the hospital on Monday suffering from a gun-shot wound on the left arm, the result of an accident which happened at Currawang on…

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Serious Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 July 1891 · page 2

LAST Wednesday morning, about nine o'clock, an accident which nearly terminated fatally occurred in the grounds of the Crookwell public school. Mary…

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