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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Two Brothers Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 2

LI[?]MORE Friday.—Two lads, brothers, aged about 15 and 17, were drowned this afternoon in the river, near the railway bridge. The younger lad was unable to swim, and got out of his depth, and…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4

On Wednesday last Mr. A. McAndrew fell from a scaf[?]ld at his residence in Monday-street, and fractured a small bone in his leg. He was attended by Dr. McMaster.—On Thursday a men named…

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Accident to a Ganger, Near Bungendore

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1894 · page 2

A GINGER from the sandbills, near Bungendore coming on Friday to warn the 10 p.m. [?]in of a [?]sshsway, waiked over a bridge sod fell twenty feet. He was considerably…

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The Fatal Sulky Accident. Inquest To-day. Sydney, Monday, 2.45 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1894 · page 3

At to-day's inquest on the body of the boy Charles Dyer, who was thrown out of a runaway sulky in Pitt-street and dashed to death, a verdict of accidental death was…

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A Ganger Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1894 · page 4

A Bungendore telegram of Saturday says:—A ganger from the sandhills, coming to warn the 10 p.m. train of a washaway, walked over a bridge and fell 20ft. He was…

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The St. Kilda Drowning Fatality. the Coroner, and the Seducer. Melbourne

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 3

An inquiry was held into the death of Annie M’Lenuan, who jumped into tho bay from the Albert Park Pier on Tuesday night. Evidence was given to the effect that the deceased was very…

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Double Drowing Fatality at Lismore. Death of Two Brothers. Lismore

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

A double drowning fatality occurred here this afternoon. A party of boys went bathing in Liecester Creek, above the railway bridge, including John and Donald Robertson, aged 17 and 14 respectively. As…

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Accident at Tarago This Morning. Attacked by a Mastiff

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

THIS morning, at about half-past eight Mrs. Edward Dawson, the wife of a resident of Tarago, was tying up a mastiff belonging to her husband, when the brute suddenly…

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Fatal Accident to a Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1894 · page 2

A BOY named Thomas Gillespie, son of Richard Gillespie, who is employed on the railway and has a selection at Jerrara, about eleven miles from Goulburn died this morning from peritonitis and…

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Fatality at Wagga Wagga. a Wheelwright Found Shot. Sydney, Friday, 6.30 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 5

HERBERT J. DUNSCOMBE, of the firm of Rae and Dunscombe, wheelwrights, Wagga, was found this morning at his tool-chest, in which a carbine was kept, shot through the heart…

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Fatal Accident. Death of a Boy

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 3

A BOY named Thomas Gillespie, son of Richard Gillespie, who is employed on the railway and has a selection at Jerrars, about eleven miles from Goulburn, died this…

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Accident at the Koh-i-noor Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 2

Captsin's Flat, Friday.—During a viclent wind-strom to-day, su iron cage was blown from the top of the popper heads down the main shaft at the Koh-i-noor mine. In its descent the cage struck an…

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A Dreadful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 4

CARCOAB, Thursday.—A fatal accident occurred to a young man named John Paton, at Slattery's Creek, near Flyer's Creek, on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Paton was experimenting with a…

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Fearful Trolly Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 4

BARCALDINE (Q), Thursday.—A horrible accident occurred near Longreach last night. A trolly containing two men employed as lengthsmen, the wife of one name Walsh, and her child, aged…

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Shocking Accident at a Race Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Saturday.—At a country race meeting at Canterbury a horse impaled itself on the end of a rail. It afterwards extricated itself, and fell on its jockey and a spectator named Kelly. The latter…

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Serious Accident at the Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1894 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Arthur Spence, living in Grafton-street, and employed as a temporary fireman on the railway, sustained a most painful accident and had a narrow escape from a fearful…

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Accident on the Railway. a Foot Lacerated and Crushed

Goulburn Herald · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 2

ARTHUR SPENCE, a young man living in Grafton-street, and employed as a temporary fireman on the railway, sustained a most painful accident and had a narrow escape…

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Bathing Fatality at Mordialloc

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—At Mordialloc baths yesterday afternoon, a young woman named Lucy Evelyn Warn, 17 years of age, accompanied by her sister and a girl friend,…

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Boating Fatality near Bega

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 2

BEGA, Monday.—A boating accident occurred yesterday on the coast, 15 miles from Bega. Three young men, named Russell, Legge, and Hunter, went out fishing. In returning home they tried to…

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Drowned by Her Brother

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 4

PERTH, Sunday—On Friday evening Chas. Chipper, aged 15, William Chipper, aged 9, and Hilda Chipper, aged about 6, went crabbing at William-street jetty. Later on the two boys returned…

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