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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 2

MR. McCarthy, living near Tarago, was brought into Goulburn, on Sunday suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg. Dr. Hollis attended him and reduced the fraclure,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 4

Mr. Herbert Shepherd, engaged in looking after Mr. Faithfull's stud horses at Springfield, met with a painful accident early yesterday morning. He was cleaning the trotting stallion Burlington, and…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 3

ON Monday last Mr. James Watman of Crookwell had the misfortune to meet with a serious accident. It appears he was riding after cattle, when his horse tripped and fell,…

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The Late Accident at Springfield

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 2

MR. H. SHEPHERD, who, as reported in our last issue, had his leg broken by a kick from the trotting stallion Burlington at Springfield, is now doing well. He is located at Mr. A. A…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 2

ON Saturday night last, Mr. John McCarthy, hotelkeeper of Currawang, while going about the house, slipped and fell, breaking his right log below the knee. He was brought into…

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Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 3

ON Monday last Mr. Jas. Watman had the misfortune to meet with a nasty accident. It appears he was riding after cattle, when his horse tripped and fell, breaking the rider's left…

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The Floods in Queensland. Harrowing Details. The Floods in Brisbane. Thousands of House Submerged. Hundreds of Families Driven from their Homes. The Flood at Ipswich.—Drowning of the Jack[?] Family ad Constable Sandster.—Thrilling Escapes

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

Brisbane has been visited by a calamity in the shape of a flood which is beyond comparison more disastrous than any every before experienced there. Rain had been…

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Fatal Accident in the Railway Yards

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 5

AN accident which unfortunately terminated fatally to-day, occurred in the Goulburn railway way yards last night about nine o'clock. The victim is an engine-driver named James Mc…

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An Engine-driver Fatally Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

AN accident, which terminated fatally, occurred in the Goulburn railway yards on Thursday evening at about 9 o'clock to an engine-driver named James McQueen, a resident of Harden. Mr. McQueen…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

A FEW nights ago a man named John Denmead, brother of Mr. W. J. Denmead, butcher, had the misfortune to break his right leg. He was scuffling with some companions, and received the injury in a…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 3 p.m. Serious Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

EARLY this morning a goods train from Sydney to Wellongong went off the line near Come, owing to an error in the points. The brake-van and four goods trucks were derailed…

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Fatal Accident in the Railway Yards. an Engine-driver Killed

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 2

A DISTRESSING accident, which subsequently terminated fatally, occurred in the Gounlbrn railway-yards about half-past nine on Thursday night last…

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The Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

THE following evidence was taken at the magisterial enquiry held at the Hospital on Saturday afternoon by Mr. H. O'Brien on the body of James Joseph McQueen, who was fatally injured on the…

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Shocking Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

ON Thursday night, between nine and ten o'clock, a shocking accident happened in the yard of the Goulburn railway station. It appears that James McQueen, an…

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Fatal Accident at a Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 3

PARKES, Tuesday.—A terrible accident occurred during the trial of hunters at the show yesterday afternoon. A young man, Thomas R. Firth, assistant engineer, in the…

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Three Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Monday.—a boating fatality happened to-day in Wellington Harbour, by which three men, named Osborne, a portmanteau-maker, Burgess, a works foreman, and Burteau, a…

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Blasting Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident happened this morning at the limestone quarries at Kingsdale, when a man named James Pearce had the flesh torn from his left hand by an explosion of…

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Two Children Killed by their Father.—A Third Child Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Arthur Patison, a farmer residing at Caniambo, about 12 miles from Shepparton, this morning murdered two of his children, Arthur, aged 5, and Florence, aged 6, and…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 3

A PAINFUL ACCIDENT befel a man named Charles Collins, more familiarly known as "Mattie," on the Crookwell-road on Wednesday night last. Collins, in company with a…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 March 1893 · page 3

A sad accident attended with fatal results occurred at Eastgrave yesterday morning. A boy named Cecil Arthur Brew, seven years of age, and son of Mr. John Brew of…

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