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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Another Collision in the Harbour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 3

As the Manly Co-operative Steam Ferry Company's steamer Conqueror was coming from Manly at 7 o'clock on Tuesday night she came into collision with the North Shore Ferey Company's Neutral…

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A Boy Drowned at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 3

COOMA, Saturday.—A boy named Joseph Allen, 10 years of age, was drowned in Leo's Creek yesterday morning He was out looking for cattle. When found by his parents he lay in the water with…

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Sensational Escape From Drowning

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 2

A SENSATIONAL event occurred on the steamer Warooga, near Albany, on Monday morning at 6 o'clock. A man named J. M'Cabe, who booked at Melbourne…

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Three Girls Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE from Bathurst reports a and drowning fatality. On Friday, three girls. Margaret Yeoma[?], aged 14, and Hilda Y[?]ans, agad four, daughters of Mr…

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Accident at Bordeaux. Four Killed and Three Injured. London

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 5

A CRADLE in which a number of workmen were engaged upon a building at Bordeaux collapsed and full to the ground. Two men were killed on the spot, and two died shortly…

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Shocking Accident in London. Fall of a Painter's Cradle. London

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 March 1894 · page 5

A SHOCKING accident occurred in Regent-street to-day. A painter's cradle, which was erected some considerable distance from to ground, suddenly collapsed and fell to the…

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The Bathurst Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1894 · page 2

BATHURST, Friday.—The body of Marie Shepherd, one of the victims in the drowning fatality in the Macquarie River, was found to-day, 10 miles down, jammed…

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A Couple of Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 April 1894 · page 3

ON Friday evening last a man named John Ford, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Croker of Willow Glen, between Tarago and Croker's Mint, met with a severe accident. He was…

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Accident at Thornford

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 April 1894 · page 4

MR. BAXTER, of Thornford, met with a severe accident at his butter factory yesterday morning. He was milking a cow at the time and was kicked by the animal on the right leg, about four inches…

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The Bathurst Fatality. BATBURST

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 4 April 1894 · page 2

The search parties looking for the bodies of the girls recently drowned in the Macquarie to day found the remains of Marion Shepherd below Mount Pleasane. 10 miles from the Georg—street…

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Railway Accident at Footscray. Officials Suspended. Melbourne

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1894 · page 3

A RAILWAY accident occurred at Footscray this morning. A goods train from Melbourne was shunting, when Cook's excursion train from Adelaide was seen coming along at a high…

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The Collision in the Harbour. Result of the Enquiry. Sydney, Friday, 3.20 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 April 1894 · page 5

THE Marine Board to-day decided that the collision between the steamers Lily and Conqueror was produced by the fault of the captain of the Conqueror, who has accordingly…

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Accident to Miss Violet Varley. Fall Under a Lift

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 April 1894 · page 3

AN accident happened in Melbourne on Wednesday to Miss Violet Varley, who is taking a prominent part in the opera "Paul Jones" at the Princess's Theatre. Early in the…

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Serious Railway Collision. MELBOURNE

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 4

As the Adelaide express was coming into West Footscray Station this morning a Cook’s special train coming to Melbourne crossed the line in front of it trying to get to tho siding. The…

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Drowned in a Well at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 2

CROOKWELL, Friday.—The youngest son of Mr. Arthur Storrier, aged three, was drowned this afternoon by falling down a well. The child must have lifted the lid of the well, lost his balance and fallen…

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Crookwell. Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1894 · page 2

ON Thursday last the youngest son (aged three years) of Mr. A. Storrier, lately carrying on a butcher's business at Crookwell, met his death by drowning in a well on the premises…

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The Bathurst Fatality. Recognition of Bravery

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1894 · page 2

BATHURST.—A Public meeting last Thursday night decided to present Mr. Herbert McCredie with a gold watch, and to apply to the Royal Humans Society for an award to him in…

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Railway Collision in Victoria. Melbourne

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1894 · page 3

THE board appointed to inquire into the railway collision between Cook's excursion train and a goods train find that the signals were disregarded by the driver of the former train,…

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The Lilly Conqueror Collision. Sydney, Monday, 6.15 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1894 · page 3

THE marine board gave a reserved decision to-day re the Lilly-Conqueror collision off Fort Macquarie, and suspended the certificate of Captain McNab of the Conqueror for the…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Sydney, Monday, 3 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 April 1894 · page 3

A MAN named Frederick Thompson, a compositor at Messrs. Batson and Co.'s in this city, fell off the train near Homebush this morning. Both age and one arm were…

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