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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Friday, 2.50 p.m. Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 5

ANNIE GROCOCK, aged eighty, while in a state of somnambulism last night, fell over the balcony of her house in Kippax-street, Surry Hills, and received internal injuries, and it is…

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Serious Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 2

A very serious accident happened on Monday afternoon last to Master Lovell Jones, aged 5 years, son of Mr. C. D. Jones of North Yass. The youngster was riding about during…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday, 2.10 p.m. Collision at Circular Quay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 4

A COLLISION occurred at Circular Quay this morning between the steamer Essen from Humburg and the ship Hollingwood. The former was considerably damaged, but no injury was occasioned to life…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 2

As Mr. B. Yeadon was working on the railway this morning he sustained a painful accident, his right hand being partially torn off in a dump car. The patient was attended by Dr. Handcock, and is…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 2

THIS morning a little boy named Donald, four or five years of age, son of Mr. "W. Donald, Bourke-street, while playing with some companions, fell, injuring his lip so severely that Dr. McKillop, who…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 21 January 1895 · page 3

ON Saturday as Mr. B. Yeadon of Joshna-street, railway fettler, was working on a dump car, his right hand became caught in the car and was badly torn in the palm…

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Distressing Fatality at Adamstown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1895 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—A very distressing ocurrence took place yesterday at Adamstown, resulting in loss of life to a young girl between 13 and 14 years of age, named Eleanor Turner, the…

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Sad Case of Drowning at Narrabeen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1895 · page 3

A SAD bathing accident occurred off the beach at Narrabeen on Sunday morning, when two men, named John Montagu Folkhard, of Gladesville, and Harry Thom, of Booth-street, Balmain,…

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The Adamstown Fatality.—Verdict of Manslaughter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1895 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—This afternoon the Coroner (Mr. Martin, J.P.) resumed the inquest upon the body of Ellinor Turner, at Love's Hotel, Adamstown. Sub-inspector Saunders watched the…

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Fatal Accident at a Foundry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1895 · page 2

AN engineer named Carlson, employed by Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, engineers and boilermakers, of Darling-street, Ultimo, was killed yesterday afternoon while working at the foundry by the bursting…

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Accidentally Shot Dead

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1895 · page 2

MERRIWA, Monday.—A lad aged 14, the son of Mr. A. Brindle, a hotelkeeper, at Gungal, 16 miles from here, was accidentally shot dead yesterday by Robert Cafe, a mail contractor. It appears that…

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The Awhina-princess Collision

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1895 · page 3

The Marine Board have concluded the inquiry into the Princess-Awhina fatal harbor collision, and have reserved their decision until next Monday…

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The Late Fatal Steamer Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1895 · page 3

The Marine Board have delivered their decision in connection wilt the fatal Princess. Awhina steamer collision, and found Captain Peterson of Awhina in fault and have called…

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Serious Accident at Lake Bathurst

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1895 · page 2

To-DAY about twelve o'clock a very serious accident occurred to Mr. P. Reynolds, third son of Mr. Walter Reynolds of Lake Bathurst. Mr. George Reynolds was working the large…

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Accident at a Butter-factory

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1895 · page 2

AN accident happened to both Mrs. Baxter of Currawang and her young daughter on Saturday afternoon last. The child was in the factory and was caught in the machinery…

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Accident at Eastgrove

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1895 · page 2

ON Friday last a young man named Arthur Ellis met with a painful accident at Eastgrove. Whilst chopping wood, the axe slipped and inflicted a deep gash about three inches long…

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Fatality at Port Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 3

MELBOURNE. THURSDAY—The bathing fatalities at Port Melbourne were supplemented to-day by another which was the outcome of inexplicable folly. A hawker…

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Fatality at a Sparring Exhibition. London, Jan. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 4

R. Fitzsimmons, the Australian boxer, has been indicted by the Grand Jury for the manslaughter of Con Riordan, who died from the effects of a blow dealt by Fitzsimmons during a sparring exhibition…

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Accident at Currawang

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 4

AN accident happened at the Currawang Butter Factory on Saturday evening to Mrs. Baxter and a little daughter. It stems that the child while playing round the machinery got caught in it, and her…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 2

A young man named Arthur Ellis, whilst engaged fencing at Gundary on Friday last, met with a painful accident. His axe slipped and inflicted a nasty wound about three inches long across the calf of the…

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