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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1893

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Shooting Accident at Marulan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1893 · page 2

While Shooting at Marulan on Sunday last, a man named Thomas Dalson, aged thirty-one, a resident of Pitt-street, Sydney, was severely…

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Shooting Accident at Marulan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 4

While out shooting at Marulan on Sunday last, a man named Thomas Dalson, 31, a resident of 356 Pitt-street, Sydney, was seriously wounded through the accidental discharge of a gun carried by one of…

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Shocking Dynamite Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 2

ADELONG, Tuesday.—A shocking accident occurred at Sandy Gully yesterday at 12 o'clock. Joseph Boyce, a miner, who arrived lately from Broken Hill, was bursting legs with dynamite,…

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Was It Providence or Accident?

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 April 1893 · 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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Dreadful Accident at a Race Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 5

RYLSTONE, Tuesday.—At the races which were held at Piangula yesterday a terrible fatal accident occurred. As the horses were turning the curve at the end of the course one of them ran into a crowd…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 April 1893 · page 3

AN accident of a somewhat serious nature happened at Towrang on Saturday to a boy about eleven years of age, son of Mr. Thomas Harris. The lad was cutting wood, when the…

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Shocking Fatality at Wagga. Mr. H. B. Fitzhardinge Killed on the Railway. Wagga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

PROFOUND gloom has been cost over the town and district by the tragic death of Mr. Harry Berkeley Fitzhardinge, the well-known solicitor. No one witnessed the accident, and it is surmised the…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Two Men Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

A TERRIBLE catastrophe occurred on the railway line near Boxer's Creek on Sunday morning last, whereby a young man named Michael Barry, engaged in repairing a railway bridge across the…

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Shocking Accident in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A shocking accident under sensational circumstances happened yesterday at the new buildings in course of erection for the Equitable Insurance Company of New York,…

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The Wagga Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1893 · page 4

INQUEST AND FUNERAL OF MR. H. B. FITZHARDINGS,—Wagga, Monday.—An inquest was hold to-day touching the death of Mr. H. B. Fitzhardinge, who was killed on the railway…

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The Late Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1893 · page 2

IN a portion of our last issue it was mistakenly stated that the funerals of the unfortunate men, Michael Barry and David McGill, killed on Sunday morning on the…

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Shocking Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 4

Melbourne, Tuesday.—A shocking gun accident occurred at Mitta Mitta yesterday. James Mathieson, aged 17, who was visiting his grandmother, started out in the evening shooting. He called a…

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A Shocking Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 April 1893 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident under sensational circumstances happened on Saturday at the new buildings in course of erection at the corner of Elizabeth and Collins streets…

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Terrible Fatal Railway Accidents

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 April 1893 · page 2

MR. H. B. FITZHARDINGE, solicitor, of Wagga, met with a terrible death on Saturday night. Deceased, who lived on the south side of the railway line, was in…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Heath of David M'gill and Michael Barry

The Yass Courier · Friday 14 April 1893 · page 2

On Sunday morning an accident occurred on the railway lino near Boxer's Creek, about seven miles from Goulburn, which resulted in the death of two young men named David McGill and Michael Barry…

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Sad Drowning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A peculiarly sad drowning accident happened in the river Yarra this afternoon. Several little girls were playing on the bank of the river, when one of them, named Violet Schafer,…

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A Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—An unusually sad case of drowning occurred off the A.U.S.N. Wharf yesterday afternoon. A fireman named James O'Brien had just taken an…

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Sequel to a Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 6

LITHGOW, Wednesday.—A curious sequel to a shooting accident was developed here today, when a lad of 15, named William Prince, was charged with stealing £47 and…

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A Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 April 1893 · page 2

HAPPENED on Saturday afternoon. J. Garrard, carter, was convoying a load of gravel along Clinton-street, when the axle of the dray suddenly broke, the wheel flew off, and…

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Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1893 · page 2

AN accident of a peculiar nature happened on Saturday afternoon in Clinton-street, near Messrs. R. T. Ball and Co.'s foundry. Mr. J. Garradd, a carter in the employ of the corporation, was…

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