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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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A Catastrophe in Botany Bay. a Boat Upset in a Storm. Six Men and a Boy Drowned. Only One Survivor

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 2

A shocking boating accident occurred in Botany Bay on Friday, when seven lives were lost. In the morning, at 7.15, a party of men headed by James Bennett, a brickmaker. residing at Kerry-street…

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Accident to the Queen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 2

"THE Queen of the South" met with a painful accident on Saturday afternoon. Whilst taking a ride on one of Baxter's merry-go-round horses she fell to the ground and sustained a black eye and…

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Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 2

ON Sunday morning an accident happened in Train-street by which Dr. Baber'e buggy, to which a pair of horses were attached, was slightly damaged. The doctor was in a patient's house at…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 2

ORANGE, Monday.—A fatal shooting case occurred at Guyong on Saturday evening. A little toy, 4 years of age, named John Rosser, wan playing with cartridges, when his cousin, Emily Rosser, aged 12,…

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Six Men and a Boy Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 2

A SHOCKING boating accident occurred in Botany Bay on Friday, when seven lives were lost. In the morning, at 7.15, a party of men, headed by James Bennett,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 June 1893 · page 2

MR P. BRENNAN, brickmaker, residing at the New Line, met with an accident on Saturday by which he sustained a fractured leg. It appears that he was riding on top of a load of manure and he…

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Dreadful Boating Fatality. Six Man and a Boy Drowned. Only One Survivor

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 2

On Friday afternoon a terrible fatality occurred in Botany Bay. A sailing boat, in which were seven men and a boy, awamped in the middle of the bay, and of…

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The Pericles in a Gale. Captain and Men Injured. a Passenger Dies From Fright

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 2

The Aberdeen White Star clipper ship Reticles, regular trader to Sydney, arrived from London on Monday, in command of Captain Phillip, who reports a very eventful…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 2

MR. P. BRENNAN of the Sydney-road, brick-maker, met with a painful accident last week. He was riding in a cart on top of a load of manure and was talking to a person behind…

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Shocking Fatality at Carcoar

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 4

CARCOAR, Thursday.—A boy seven months old in the suburbs of Carcoar was tied to a chair near a fierce fire, and during its mother's absence to get some water, from a distance of only seven yards,…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 5

'You do not love me,' he would say, 'and I am not astonished. No Sutberland was ever yet worthy at a woman's love. We are a weak, vacillating race.'…

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Serious Collision in the Harbour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 4

BETWEEN 7 and 8 o'clock on Thursday night the steamer Tamar, belonging to Captain Campbell, loaded with coal from Newcastle, while coming up the harbour…

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Alarming Accident in Washington. London, June 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 June 1893 · page 4

Further particulars of the disastrous accident in Washington state that 200 persons were buried in the ruins of the building. There were 300 inside the place at the time of the collapse, but 100 made…

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Shocking Fatality at Bendigo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

Melbourne, Wednesday.—A shocking fatality occurred in the Catherine United Mine, the victim being a young miner named M'Naughton. He was coming up the shaft in a cage from the 1120ft level…

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A Mountaineering Fatality. London, June 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 4

A sad mountaineering fatality is reported from the Tyrol, in Austria. A couple named Haubner, a bride and bridegroom, who were on their honeymoon, attempted an ascent of the Buchstein, one of…

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Accident at the Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

MR. RICHARD YOUNG, a well-known resident of the city, was brought to the hospital, on Tuesday last suffering from lumbago. Some time during the night he got up out of his bed, evidently suffering…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 June 1893 · page 5

ON Tuesday last Mr. B. Young of Clifford-street, an old resident of the city, who has been an invalid for over two years from a stroke of paralysis, was admitted into the…

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An Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1893 · page 5

Nothing more was said until the earl, gathering his letters together, rose to go. His face, ever pale, had grown paler while he conversed with Revaine, and there was a slight…

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Collision in the Atlantic. London, June 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1893 · page 4

A collision has taken place in the Atlantic between the Cunard liner Servia and the ship Alexander Macallum. The ship foundered. The collision occurred during a dense fog…

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Railway Accident at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1893 · page 2

A GOOD deal of uneasiness and speculation was caused in town on Friday morning owing to the non-arrival of the mail train until five minutes past nine. A passenger gives us (Queanbeyan Age) the…

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