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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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The Oroya Accident. London, March 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 4

The court of inquiry at Naples has delivered its decision. The Court held the master of the steamer, Captain Reginald L. Routh, blameable, and suspended his…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 April 1895 · page 2

GEORGE DENNY, seventeen, son of Mr. David Denny of Norwood, met with a severe accident yesterday. The horse he was riding unfortunately trod in a hole and fell, rolling…

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Boating Fatality

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 2

A SHOCKING boating fatality [?] in Botany Bay last Thursday night. A party of six men had been out fishing kind were returning home shortly before midnight. "When…

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The Balmain Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 2

THE inquest on the body of the boy Luke Louden, who died at the Balmain Cottage Hospital on March 26 from injuries received the proceeding evening, while watching a merry-go-round, was resumed on…

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Accident at Norwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 4

A YOUNG man named George Denney, son of Mr. D. Denny, of Norwood, met with an accident on Sunday. He was out riding, when his horse trod in a hole and fell heavily, rolling over on its rider…

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Boating Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 3

A SHOCKING boating fatality occurred at Botany Bay last Thursday night. A party of six men had been out fishing and were returning home shortly before midnight…

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Boating Fatality at Botany

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 3

A FATAL boating accident, by which four men lost their lives, occurred off Botany Heads shortly before mid night on Thursday. The boat was a 22-footer owned and sailed by William John Goldsmith, a…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 2

WHILST proceeding home from the Crookwell show on Friday, 22nd March, Mr. H. Berrell, of the Thalaba Inn, was thrown from his buggy and badly cut…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

A YOUNG man named H. Fanning, employed by Mr. F. Gibson, of Tirranna, met with an accident this morning. Whilst out riding he was thrown from his horse and sustained a fracture…

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Accident to an Amateur Acrobat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

WHAT a young man named Roy Martin was practising some gymnastic feats on the sandhills at Waterloo on Monday afternoon he met with a peculiar but painful accident. It seems that…

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Fatal Boating Accident. Three Persons Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

A fishing boat at the Botany Bay Heads was swamped by a steamer at halfpast eleven on Thursday night 28th ult. Four men were drowned and two saved…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning H. Fanning, in the employ of Mr. F. F. Gibson of Tirranna, was thrown from his horse, and his foot becoming caught in the stirrup he sustained a fracture…

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ADELAIDE, Monday. Fatal Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 3

A BUGGY accident happened at Port Pirie yesterday by which Mr. Stow, magistrate, his wife, and two daughter were thrown out. Mrs. Stow died this morning from injuries…

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Fatal Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 2

ON Sunday evening last a young man named William Owens, son of Mr. Owens of Coodradigbee, met with a fatal accident whilst returning home about seven o'clock, in the company of two…

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A Peculiar Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--As a commercial traveller was driving into Alexandra this afternoon he was overtaken by Trooper Dawson, whose horse commenced to buck…

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Rush of Water in a Sewer Tunnel.—Six Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—An accident occurred this evening in No. 1 section of the Hobson's Bay main sewer, which is under about the centre of the River Yarra, and in Mr. A. J. Robb's contract at…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Saturday, 1.3 p.m. Terrible Fatality. — Seven Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 3

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred at Parkes at three o'clock this morning. A seven-roomed cottage, occupied by the widow and family of the late Mr. J. C. Quinn, caught fire, and Mrs. Quinn, together…

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Miraculous Escape From Drowning

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 3

ON Wednesday last, Miss Louisa Hayward, youngest daughter of Mr. Thos. Hayward of Kialla, experienced a very narrow escape from an untimely end by…

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Terrible Accident Near Melbourne

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 April 1895 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A terrible accident, by which six men lost their lives, occurred to-night at the Metropolitan Board of Works sewerage tunnel at Spottiswoode,…

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A Bank Manager Drowned

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 2

West Maitland, Tuesday.--Mr. Kenneth R. Jacob, manager of the City Bank at West Maitland, and second son of Mr. Archibald H. Jacob, Chairman of Committees in the Legislative…

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