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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1894

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Fatal Accident at Tamworth

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1894 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Sunday.—A fatal accident happened here this afternoon. A young man named Verdon, a railway official at West Tamworth, was driving Miss Chrissy England, a young lady on a visit here…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 April 1894 · page 2

A sad case of drowning took place hero on Friday afternoon last, when the youngest son of Mr. Arthur J. Storrier, of this town, fell into a well in his father's yard…

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A Young Woman Burned to Death. Two Persons Injured

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 4

GUNDAGAI, Monday.—Miss JANET SOMERVILLE, aged 20, daughter of the late Alderman Somerville, was burned to death on Saturday, while…

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Fatal Accident in an Iron Foundry. London

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 5

A TERRIBLE accident in an iron foundry in Ohic a cauldron of molten steel was upset. The boiling metal was thrown in all directions, four man were killed, and sex others were…

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An Unprecedented Inundation.—ten Persons Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday.—The Telegraph Department has received a telegram from Urandangie confirming the reports of the disastrous flood at Georgina. The river rose to an alarming height. The flood…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 2

A SEVERE accident happened to Mr. Wainwright poundkeeper, at Wombat on Tuesday. He was driving out, in company with Mrs. Owen, when the shafts of the vehicle carried away. The horse…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Tuesday, 2.36 P.m. the Marine Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

The steamer Koonawarra, which collided with the Titania, arrived safely in Melbourne this morning. The Titania is making her way along the coast in low of the steamer Glan[?]s, at a rate of about five…

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Accident to Mr. Wainwright

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 2

We regret to learn that the accident to Mr. Wain-Wright, poundkeeper at Wombat, the particulars of which appeared in a recent issue, is more serious than was at first thought. He still lies at the residence of…

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A Girl Drowned by her Brother

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1894 · page 4

PERTH, Sunday.—At the Criminal Sessions yesterday Charles Clipper, aged 15, was arraigned on a charge of manslaughter. The evidence of a younger brother clearly showed…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.17 p.m. Tht Marine Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1894 · page 4

The ship Titania arrived early this morning. The captain will withhold particulars of the collision until the Italian Consul has been interviewed. After the mishap the vessel made water rapidly…

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A Boy Drowned at Mort's Dock. Sydney, Friday, 6 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 5

A BOY, named W. Lippke, aged five, while walking across a plank with some companions, fell into a pond at Mort's Dock this morning and was drowned…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 5

AN accident of a painful nature occured at Mesers, Ramond Brother's brewery this afternoon. A lad named Frank Powell, brother of the victim of the accident at Glenrock on…

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A Boy Accidentally Hanged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 2

BURROWA, Thursday.—A sad fatality by hanging is reported from Grassy Creek, about 20 miles from here. A boy named Dunn, aged 8 years, son of John Stephen Dunn,…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 2

A LAD named Frank Powell, aged 18, bad his left hand badly crushed at Bartlett's brewery on Friday afternoon. He is employed in the brewery as under-malster, and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 2

A lad named William Creighton, thirteen years of age, son of Mr. T. Creighton, of Bourke-st., had the misfortune on Wednesday last to break his left arm by falling from…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 April 1894 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon, Frank Powell, eighteen, con of Mr. G. Powell of Mundy-street, railway guard, and who is employed as under malster at Bartlett's brewery, met with a very painful…

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Serious Accident. Sydney, Monday, 6 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 April 1894 · page 3

TWO painters named B. Brown and H. Murray were painting the walls of the Hotel Metropole this afternoon, when their ladder collapsed. The men fell twenty-five feet and…

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Shooking Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Shortly after 8 o'clock this evening a fearful accident occurred on the Port railway line, at the Grand Junction crossing. A cab driven by a man named Richard Davis, in which…

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Supposed Fatality Near Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 4

BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.—A young man named John Bond in supposed to have been drowned in the Shoalhaven River, at Nithsdale. A horse, saddled, was found on the bank of the river by the police and…

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Drowned in the Shoalhaven

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 2

BRAIDWOOD, Monday.—The body of young Bond, who was drowned in the Shoathaven River last week, was found to-day…

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