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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Dynamite Accident in America

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 2

While some workmen were in the act of thawing frozen dynamite at Stronsburg, in America; the dynamite exploded and four men were killed on the spot…

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Railway Accident on the Blayney Line. the Train Falls Over Am Embankment

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 January 1893 · page 2

A telegram to the Herald from Carcoar on Sunday says: At a quarter-past 12 this morning a fatal railway accident occurred to No. 8 up mixed train, which left Harden at…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 3

A PAINFUL accident befel a man named Albert Parker in Auburn-street about half. past nine last evening. The man was coming out of the Royal Hotel, when he slipped and…

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Fatal Railway Accident Near Cowra

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1893 · page 4

NEWS reached Goulburn on Sunday of a serious railway accident on the loopline which connects the western and southern railways between Harden and Blayney. The…

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Two Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

ABOUT half-past 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon a dingy containing five men, while being rowed across Homebush Bay, swamped, and two of the occupants, Dempsey and Atkinson, were drowned…

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Railway Accident on the Blayney Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 4

CARCOAR, Sunday.—At a quarter-past 12 this morning a fatal railway accident occurred to No. 8 up mixed train, which left Harden at 9.15. The engine was in charge of Diver Willoughby and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

A MAN named Albert Parker slipped on the pavement in front of the Royal Hotel at about it quarter-past 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening and received a nasty contused wound on the back of the…

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Suicide by Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 January 1893 · page 2

A SAD case of suicide occurred near Rossiville on Friday evening last, when Mr. John Frost, of the Retreat Inn, Mummel, drowned himself in the Wollondilly River. The…

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Terrible Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 4

ALIBED YE[?]ANS, a fettler living at Tuggranong, was killed on the railway on Saturday evening at about a quarter to 9 o'clock He was retargeting home from Queanbeyan o his railway [?]cycle,…

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Two Boys Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 3

MRLBOURNE, Monday.—A sad drowning accident occurred yesterday near Rushworth. Three sons of John Clayton were playing at a dam when the youngest, aged 8, fell in. His brother, aged 10, in…

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A Father and Two Children Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 3

Warialda, Monday.—A [?]d fatality occurred at Ezzy's Crossing, Gwydir River, Mores Road, 14 miles from hero, on Saturday. A man, his wife, and three children were crossing the river in a…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 2

A boy named Champion met with an accident on Thursday evening last. It appears that he was playing with some other boys on a lorry in Mr. P. McShane's yard, when one of the youngsters…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident befel a boy named Topham in Bourke-street, on Monday evening last. He was playing with soma companions about a fence which wan in a course of…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Coroner's Inquest

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident happened as Saturday evening's train from cooma came down the grading just above Woden. A letter named Alfred Yeomans left Queanbeyan station on…

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Queanbeyan. [?] Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 4

AN inquest was held at the Courthouse on Monday touching the death of a fettler named Alfred Y[?]mons. Mr. A. Crawford, Inspector, represented the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

A LITTLE girl of fire years of age, daughter of Mr. C. Holt, dairyman, Garroorigang, met with an accident on Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock. She [?] on a [?],giving a [?] drink,…

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Accidental Poisoning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

DUBBO, Wednesday—A sad case of accidental poisoning was the subject of a magisterial inquiry here today. A little girl who was left to mind a baby 12 months old found a bottle which contained…

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Railway Accident near Carcoar

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 5

AN accident happened to the down train due at Carcoar at half-past ten o'clock on Monday night. One of the tubes of the boiler burst when the train was thirty yards inside the…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 5

A MAN named William Clout, employed at Mr. T. Ferguson's Saw Mille at Wingello, was the victim of a painful accident yesterday morning. Clout was "feeding" at the…

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Accident at Wingello

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 4

A MAN named William Clout met with a painful accident at Ferguson's now mills, Wingello, on Thursday morning. His hand was drawn in between a circular saw at which he was working and…

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