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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Serious Accident to a Fireman

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 January 1892 · page 5

WE are sorry to any that at the fire-brigade demonstration on the Agricultural Society's Show-ground, a very serious accident before Fireman Arthur German of the Granville…

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The Cordelia Accident. LONDON, Jan. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 3

Sergeant Barber, who was injured by the bursting of a gun on board H.M.S. Cordelia, has been pronounced unfit for service, and has been pensioned off…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—This morning a man named Joseph Stanley, who was employed with several others in putting up a new electric lighting wire in…

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Drowning and Suffocation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 1

Ten treatment of drowning and suffecation from gas, &c., is the same. First, restore breathing; second, promote warmth and circulation. At once place the patient on his back in a lying…

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Collision in the English Channel. LONDON, Jan. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 4

A has taken places in the English Channel, between the Orient lin[?] Oroys, [?] board for Australia, and a Danish s[?]omer…

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Steamboat Accident in British Columbia. LONDON, Jan. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 4

A shocking [?]mbost accident has occurred at Ca[?]er in the River G[?], in British Columbia. Thirty-nine passers were drowned…

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The late Fatal Accident near Nyngan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1892 · page 3

THOMAS FROST, reported in last issue as having boon ran over and killed by a contractor's engine on the railway line between Nyngan and Cobar, was a son of Mr. John…

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Accident to a Mail Coach

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 2

MOBUYA, Wednesday.—The mail coach from Braidwood to Moruya met with an accident yesterday evening. When a few miles on the Mornya side of Arsluen, coming down a steep…

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Fatal Accident at Bell's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 5

A VERY deplorable fatality took place at Bell's Creek on Thursday evening week. Mr. T. Lee had been stretching a six-inch hawser for use in a pile-driver and left it stretched between two…

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Serious Buggy Accident Near Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 4

YOUNG, Saturday.—A serious occurred yesterday afternoon on Mr. J. A. M'Kinnon's Memagong station. Early in the morning Mr. J. H. Murray, who manages the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

A RAILWAY employe named Rogers met with an accident yesterday while working at the engine [?]ane. The injuries he received were very severe, his left thumb being out completely…

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Fatal Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

YOUNG, Monday.—An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Mr. John Henry Murray, late manager for Mr. M'Kinnon, M.L.A., who died yesterday morning from the…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 3

AN accident, unfortunately attended with fatal results, occurred at Carrick yesterday afternoon, the victim being a man named Frederick Andreson. It was another instance of loss of…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 3

A SERIOUS accident occurred at the railway engine-sheds on Monday evening last to a man named Emanuel Rogers, an employe in the locomotive department. Rogers was…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 3

ON Monday evening last a young man named A. Cox, who is on a visit in the country, and is at present staying at Woodville, Binda, had the misfortune to dislocate his elbow whilst…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 2

A little boy named Nowlan, son of Mr. A. Nowlan, Clifford-street, sustained a painful, accident on Wednesday morning. While playing he fell into a dish of boiling starch,…

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Accidentally Shot. a Sad Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 2

AN inquest was held by the coroner, Mr. Harold O'Brien, at the hospital yesterday afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man named Frederick Anderson, a bridge…

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Coroner's Inquest. the Late Fatal Gun-accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 15 January 1892 · page 3

MR. O'BRIEN, coroner, held an inquest at he Goulburn hospital on Wednesday afternoon on the body of William Anderseu, whose death from a gunshot wound was recorded in…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 2

WAGGA, Monday.—A girl named Constance Gertrude Darlow, 15 years of age, was on Sunday morning drowned in a small shallow lagoon on Bull's run, which is about 28 miles…

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Sad Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 2

SAD FATALITY.—A profound sensation was caused in Parramatta on Sunday evening by a rumour that Miss Lucy Hicks, daughter of Mr. W. H. Hicks of Woodrising,…

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