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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Gun Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 2

GOULBURN, Wednesday.--Frederick Anderson, a bridge hand on the railway, was accidentally shot at Carrick last night at 7 o'clock. John Munro, a fellow…

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Railway Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 2

A BALLAST-ENGINE ran off the line at Mittagong on Tuesday morning, owing to the driver not being aware of the now slip-points being on the line. All the wheels being off the rails, no…

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Serious Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 2

AN accident, which we regret to say is likely to result fatally, happened on last Saturday morning to Mr. James Selmes, an old resident of Wheeo, eighty years of…

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Shocking Accident with a Revolver

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 2

MOLONG, Wednesday.—Mr. P. F. A. Kinne, the coroner, has been apprised of a fatal revolver accident at Coate's Creek, 18 miles from Molong, at the residence of Herbert Atkinson, a teamster…

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Fatal Accident at Wheeo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 2

CROOKWELL, Wednesday.—On Saturday last a man named James Selmes, 80 years of age, residing at Wheeo, fell from a load of wheat and sustained concussion of the brain and internal…

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Accident at Wheeo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Tuesday.—A serious accident befel an old man named Selmes, aged 80, at Wheeo on Saturday. He was gathering wheat from a paddock when he fell from a loaded cart…

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A Collision

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 January 1892 · page 5

THIS morning a horse attached to a cab belonging to Mr. Luke shied in Auburn-street, and in consequence the cab was brought into collision with a phaeton driven by Mrs…

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Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 3

A serious collision occured in Auburn-street on Friday morning. A horse driven by o cabman named Houlton, in the employ of Mr. H. Lake, shied near the Hibernian Hotel and ran…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 4

A BUGGY, the occupants of which were Mrs. George Lansdown and child and a lady friend, collided on Thursday afternoon with a spring curt at Knowlman's corner. The buggy was…

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Fatal Gunshot Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1892 · page 2

TELEGRAMS from Carcoar state that a fatal gun accident occurred at Burnt Yards on Monday, by which a young woman named Sarah Jane Keens, aged nineteen, lost her…

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Terrible Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 February 1892 · page 2

ONE of the most appalling accidents that has occurred on a vessel in Sydney Harbour for some time past happened on, Anniversary Day between St. George's…

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Death by Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 February 1892 · page 4

A SAD accident, resulting fatally, occurred at Yarra yesterday afternoon, by which Mr. R. T. Ball (Mayor of Goulburn) lost his youngest son, Ernest Palmer, seven years of…

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Was It Providence or Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 February 1892 · page 1

Did the finding of that article save the man's That is the question. Is there a divinity that shapes our ends or are events but a mere series of accidents…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 3

DEEP regret was expressed in the city on Thursday evening when it became known that one of Mr. R. T. Ball's sons, aged about seven years had been drowned in a water hole at Yarra. It appears a…

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Buggy Accident at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 3

YOUNG, Thursday.—William West, a resident of Marengo, was driving homewards yesterday with his wife and two children and a lady named Miss Lloyd. While going down…

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Fatal Accident at Cowra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 2

COWRA, Monday.—An accident, attended with fatal results, happened near here at a late hour on Saturday night. A fettler named Edward Houghton, while riding home along the railway line on a…

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Fatal Gun Accident at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 2

QUEANBEYAN, Monday.—A gun accident happened about 8 this morning at Glenrock. Mr. George Tompsitt shot himself while getting through a three-rail fence, and died without a struggle…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1892 · page 2

RAILWAY FATALITY.—Cowra, Monday,—A ganger named Houghton was killed by the midnight train between Cowra and Koorawathn. The remains were found and brought…

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Fatal Gun Accident at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1892 · page 2

WE gather from the local papers that a sad accident occurred at Queanbeyan on Monday morning by which Mr. George Tompsitt of Glenrock near Queanbeyan met his death…

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Fatal Gunshot Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 February 1892 · page 2

TELEGRAMS from Carcoar state that a fatal gun accident occurred at Burnt Yards last week, by which a young woman named Surah Jane Keens, aged nineteen, last her…

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