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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Fatal Accident Near Young

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred at Young on Tuesday to a man named Valentine Rhall on the Maragarel road near Tubbal. While in charge of a team loaded with five tons of bricks, he climbed…

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The Redfern Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 2

IN reference to the Redfern railway accident in October lost, the Railway Department state that the arrangements with regard to the payment of compensation to injured survivors and to relatives of…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning a man named Bourke, residing in Clifford-street, was shaving. He is left-handed, and somehow accidentally drawing the razor across his right forearm…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Thursday, 2.36 P.m. a Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 2

THE body of Captain Matt. Byrnes. one of the best known steam tug proprietors in Sydney, was found floating in Darling Harbour this morning. He is supposed to have fallen off the wharf late…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 2

A young man named Wicks sustained at painful accident at Towrang on Wednesday morning. He was about to fire at some ducks and had put the powder in, when the gun slipped…

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Sensational Drowning Case

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 4

During the carrival at Wear Mailtand on Saturday afternoon Thomas Murray, a local accident. on of [?] jumped from the [?]…

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Grounding of the Oroya. Three Seamen Drowned. London, March 5

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 2

The stormy weather prevailing in the Mediterranean is interfering with the efforts being made to float the Orient R.M.S. Oroya, which is aground in the bay of Naples. The passengers are being…

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A Child Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 March 1895 · page 2

THE morning Mr. H. O'Brien, coroner, held an inquest at the Goulburn morgue on the body of a boy named Volney Joseph Withers, aged three and a-half years, a native of…

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Drowning Fatality at Eastgrove

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 4

A LITTLE boy named Volney Joseph Withers, aged 3 years, was drowned in the Mulwarree on Saturday might near Baxter's tannery. It appears that the child and his father, Edmund Withers, were…

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A Boy Drowned while Trying to Save a Companion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 4

A SAD accident occurred at Alexandria on Saturday afternoon resulting in the death of a boy named Henry Burchill, aged 11, and the narrow escape of Frederick Findon, aged 4 years. The boys were…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning as Mr. Arthur Blatchford, letter-carrier, was returning from his round, while near Mr. P. McShane's, his horse stumbled and fell on top of him. The…

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Serious Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident befel Mrs. Shipp son., of Gullen, on Saturday evening last. It appears Mrs. Shipp in company with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Shipp, was…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 2

MR. ARTHUR BLATCHFORD, letter-carrier, was the was returning from his round his horse stumbled near the junction of Auburn and Bradley streets and fell upon him, the rider receiving several…

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Railway Accident on the Great Zigzag

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 4

LITHGOW, Tuesday.—What was dangerously near a startling fatality took place at noon to-day on the Great Zigzag, when a passenger train for Sydney was backing up the incline from the bottom…

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Fatal Accident at Rosebery Park Racecourse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 March 1895 · page 4

AN accident, which resulted in the death of a jockey named J. Elliott, occurred on Tuesday at the Rosebery Park Racecourse, Alexandria. The lad was riding the pony…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 2

At the Bombala show yesterday a horse ridden by Walter Hammond of Delegate fell and rolled over his rider, killing him instantly…

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A Jockey Killed.—another Seriously Injured

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 March 1895 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon during the pony races at Rosebery Park. A jockey named Alfred Elliott, sixteen years of age,…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 March 1895 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, Mr. F. Tandy, railway employe, his wife and two other ladies, were out driving, and when between the Club House and Post-office hotels, the bolt…

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Serious Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 March 1895 · page 3

Miss Louie Galvin, the well-known vocalist, and Mrs. G. W. Nicoll of Canterbury, were both thrown out of a buggy on the Burwood-road to-day, the horse having been frightened…

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The North Sydney Drowning Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 March 1895 · page 3

THE Sydney City Coroner held an inquest on Monday relative to the death of the young woman, Margaretta Blackman, who was missed from her home , North Sydney, on Thursday nbi.ht last, and…

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