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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Terrible Accident at the V.R.C. Races. MELBOURNE

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred at Flemington this afternoon during the running of the Bourke Handicap, the last race of the day. As the field was rounding the turn into the straight, Linborn, who…

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Serious Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 2

AN accident of a very serious and painful nature [?]ppencd to Mr. William Pearsall on Monday last. The cause of the trouble was a misdirected blow of his ex, which, instead of striking the…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 March 1894 · page 7

AN accident, fortunately unattended by serious consequences, occurred to Mr. John Parkman, of Calabash, on Monday night. He was riding after cattle at a rapid rate, when his horse stumbled…

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The Coffee Palace Fatality. Eccentric Conduct of the Victim

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 March 1894 · page 2

The death of the man Walter John Pankhurst, which took place in the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, where he had been conveyed after falling from a window at the Grand Central Coffee…

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Drowning Accident at Lake Bathurst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 2

ROBERT ISAAC CLARKE, about 10 years of age, son of Mr. George Clarke, fettler, fell into the Lake Bathurst Creek, near the railway bridge, at 5 o'clock on Monday evening and was washed away…

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Drowning Fatality at Lake Bathurst. Yesterday's Inquiry

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. Harold O'Brien, Coroner for the district, held an inquest at Tarago on the body of Robert Isaac Clark, a lad of nine years of age, who was drowned the previous…

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Another Drowning Case

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 2

INFORMATION has reached the police to the effect a youth named Alfred Luke, eighteen years of age, was drowed in crossing the Wollondilly River, near Longreach Station,…

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Accidents at Gunning

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 3

ON Saturday evening two vehicular accidents occurred. Mr. Browne, a commercial traveller, was getting in a sulky at the station, when he must have pulled the wrong rein, causing the…

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Drowning Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Alfred Luke was drowned in the Wullondilly River on Tuesday afternoon near the Longreach Estate. Luke attempted to cross the river, which was in high flood, on horseback,…

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Remarkable Escape from Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 2

PERTH, Wednesday.—A sensational event occurred on the steamer Waroonga, near Albany, on Monday morning at 6 o'clock. A man named J. McCabe, who booked at Melbourne with his wile…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1894 · page 2

Frank Russell, son of Mr. Thomas Russell while practising the gymnasium yesterday, broke his wrist. The sufferer is under the medical treatment of Dr. Neale…

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Drowning Case Near Tarlo. Thrown From His Horse

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 March 1894 · page 5

THIS morning, Mr. O'Brien, the coroner, held magisterial inquiry at Tarlo, into the cause of the death of George Cameron Mc Donald. The following evidence was taken:—…

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Dreadful Fatality at Bathurst. — Three Young Girls Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 2

BATHURST, Friday.—A dreadful fatality happened to-day in the Macquarie River, by which three young girls lost their lives. Maggie Yeomans, aged 14, Hilda (her stepsister), about 4, and Marie…

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Sad Fatality at Tarlo. Thrown From His Horse and Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 4

MR. GEORGE CAMERON McDONALD, of Tario, a cousin of Mr. David McDonald, of the Goulburn gasworks, came by his death on Thursday evening on the Taralga road in a tragic manner. Deceased…

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Fatal Shooting Accident at Nyngan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 4

NYNGAN, Thursday.—Particulars of a shooting case, which occurred at the Duck Creek public-house, about 18 miles from Nyngan, on Sunday last are to hand. A blackfellow named Binda, of a…

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Strange Accident at Dural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 March 1894 · page 4

On Wednesday Mr. H. Black, of Woodlawn, was engaged in stripping bark, and felled a tree, which in falling broke another tree off at a height of about soft. In…

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Three Girls Drowned at Bathurst

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 3

ON Friday Maggie Yoemans, aged 14, Hilda (her step sister), about 4, and Marie Shepherd, aged 10, went out in a sulky for a drive, the eldest girl, who had charge, being well…

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The Longreach Drowning Case. Recovery of the Body

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 2

INFORMATION was received by the Goulburn police yesterday afternoon that Constable Kilfoyle had that day recovered the body of Alfred Luke, who was drowned near…

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Fatal Shooting Accident at Nyngan. NYNGAN

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1894 · page 4

Particulars of a shooting case, which occurred at the Buck Creek public-house, about 18 miles from Nyngan, on Sunday last, are to hand. A black-fellow named Binda, of a very quarrelsome…

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The Fatality at Longreach

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 2

THE body of Alfred Luke, the young man who was drowned in the Wollondilly River near the Long Reach Estate on Monday week, was found on Tuesday on a n[?]ag in the river about…

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