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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 February 1892 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon Willie Daulton, son of Mr. M. Daulton, of this town, had a narrow escape from being killed. Young Daulton was driving a horse out…

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Fatal Accident at the Echuca Rifle Butts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 February 1892 · page 2

MOAMA, Wednesday.—A sad accident occurred at the Echuca rifle butts this morning. A young man named Snell was marking for the Echuca Rangers at the local butts. He had given the signal to…

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Two School Girls Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 4

BURROWA, Friday.—A said drowning fatality is reported from Five-mile Creek, beyond Rye Park. Three girls, aged 13, 11, and 8 years respectively, daughter of a selector named Francis, were…

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Two Sisters Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 February 1892 · page 3

A car drowning fatality is reported from Five Mile Creek, Burrowa district. Three girls, aged thirteen, eleven and eight years, daughters of a selector named Frances, were…

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Fatal Accident at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 2

YOUNG, Monday.—A sad accident, which has since terminated fatally, happened on Saturday afternoon. A young man named George Tout, the son of Samuel Tout, proprietor of Calabash station,…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 2

A SON of Mr. Ritchie. of North Goulburn, met with a painful Accident last week while returning home from school. Ho was swinging on a gate, when it came off the hinges and fell on him, causing…

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Fatal Accident at Brungle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 4

GUNDAGAI, Sunday.—A ad accident took place at Brungle yesterday, by which a son of Mr. Duncan Mackinnon lost his life. The deceased, who was mounted on a fiery horse, was engaged…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 February 1892 · page 3

A SAD drowning fatality is reported from Five Mile Crook, Burrowa district. Two girls, aged twelve and ten years, daughters of Mr. Joseph Francis, were returning from…

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Fatal Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1892 · page 2

THE sad news reached Yass by wire on Monday of the deaths on Sunday of Mr. George Tout, son of Mr. S. Tout of Calabash, Marengo; and of Mr. Joseph Garner, son of…

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Terrible Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 February 1892 · page 2

CASINO, Friday.--On Sunday last Mrs. Read of Sandiland Range, was out rilling, when her horse took fright and bolted, and shied alongside a fence, causing the…

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Frightful Blasting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 February 1892 · page 2

A TERRIBLE blasting accident occurred at the Tarrawingee Flux Quarries on Wednesday owing to the premature explosion of a charge of racks-rock. One man woe killed and four others were…

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Was It Providence or Accident 1

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 February 1892 · 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 but a mere series of accidents…

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Fatal Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 February 1892 · page 2

A MELANCHOLY accident, subsequently attended by fatal results, occurred on Saturday to Mr. George Tout, son of Mr. Samuel Tout, of Calabash. The young…

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Accidental Shooting Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 6

TINGHA, Thursday.—News has been brought in that a young man named Frank Orchard was accidentally shot to-day by a man named Curtin. It appears that…

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Bathing Fatality at Albury

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1892 · page 4

ALBURY, Sunday.—A bathing accident occurred in the Murray yesterday afternoon, by which a lad named Barratt, 12 years old, lost his life, and another lad, named Harris, was only rescued by…

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Shocking Fatality at a Rifle Range

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1892 · page 2

BRISRANE, Monday.—A dreadful accident happened at the Townsville rifle rage on Saturday afternoon, by which Richard Oswell Geddes, a young member of the Townsville Mounted Infantry,…

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Strange Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 2

A RIFLE was accidentally discharged at Townsville rifle range on Saturday, and the bullet shot a button off a bystander's coat. The button entered the body of a…

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Fatal Accident at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1892 · page 2

YASS, Wednesday.—Mr. John Thomson, a very old and repeated resident of Yass River, while returning from the funeral of Mr. Thomas Armstrong yesterday was thrown from his buggy,…

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Was It Providence or Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 February 1892 · 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 but mere series of accidents…

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Fatal Accident at Brungle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 6

ON Saturday, 13th instant, Mr. Allen McKinnon, of Brungle, lost his life. The following particulars of the sad occurrence, as taken at the magisterial inquiry held by…

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