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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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Gamecock-leveret Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 January 1896 · page 3

The Marine Board to-day delivered judgment re the Gumecock-Leveret collision off Sydney Heads, The board found that both vessels were to blame. Captains Mackie and…

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Burning Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 January 1896 · page 2

On Friday Mr. John Carney, an old resident of Taraga, was admitted into Goulburn hospital suffering from severe burns received through falling into the fire whilst in a fit…

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Sad Fatality at Kenmore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 4

A SAD fatality occurred at Kenmore on Saturday afternoon, a little girl named Edith Leigh, whose parents reside in Waterloo. Sydney, and who was paying a visit to some friends named Clark for the…

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Fatal Result of a Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 4

ON Sunday evening Mrs. Shearston, the mother of Mr. J. Shearston, of the naval House, died at St. Vincent's Hospital. The deceased lady was on Thursday found in an unconscious condition near…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 2

AN accident, attended with fatal results, occurred on Monday night, on the Milson's Point railway, about a quarter of a mile beyond the St. Leonards station. The engine-driver on arrival at Chatswood…

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Fatal Accident to a Butcher

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 2

BATHURST, Wednesday.—James Lanfranche, a butcher of 30 years' residence in Bathurst, was accidentally killed to-day whilst slaughtering a bullock at the slaughter-yard. The beast had…

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Drowning Fatality at Narrabeen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 6

A drowning fatality occurred at the Narrabeen Lakes on Friday evening. A lad named Ernest Crocket, aged 17, kitchen boy at the Rock Lily Hotel, left that place…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

ON Wednesday evening an accident which might have been attended with more serious results, happened to a lad named Arch Mackenzie, son of Senior constable Mackenzie, of this town. He was…

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Fatal Accident to a Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 6

Melbourne, Sunday.—An inquest was held yesterday respecting the death of Peter M'Cracken Langtree, 16 years old, a son of Mr. C. W. Langtree, formerly secretary of…

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Fatal Tram Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 January 1896 · page 2

A HORRIBLE tram accident occurred in Oxford-street, Paddington, on Saturday night, resulting in the instantaneous death of the victim. A motor with a couple of cars attached was…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 January 1896 · page 2

ON Friday morning a shouter on the railway named George Farmer, whilst engaged in coupling some carriages of the express train, had his right hand badly crushed. Dr. Hand…

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Fatality at Paddington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1896 · page 4

ABOUT half-past 8 o'clock on Saturday night a man named Alfred Willis, aged 50, a native of England, and who resided with his wife and family in Paddington-street, Paddington, whilst in the act…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 January 1896 · page 2

On Saturday last, as Mrs. J. Sidebotham was driving into Yass from Waroo, in a buggy, the horse took fright and bolted down the hill near the Gums. Mrs, Sidebotham told a…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1896 · page 2

A laborer named Fred Mauro, residing at Waverley, fell from a scaffold to-day at the Georges-street markets to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet, and was severely…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 5

William Petter, a ganger employed on the Werris Creek railway section, was proceeding along the line on his tricycle when he was knocked ever by a train coming behind him…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1896 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon the Bev. CANON Soares had occasion to leave his beggy standing in Franci-street whilet visiting one of his parishioners, when the beitt—one he has…

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Vehicle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1896 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon the horse attached to the Rev. Canon Soares' buggy bolted, the animal, a recent acquisition, being left in Francis-street whilst the Canon paid a visit to a parishioner. The buggy…

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Fatal Swing Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1896 · page 4

HILL END, Tuesday.—A fatal accident happened on Wednesday night last to a boy named Uren, the son of Mr. S. Uren. Whilst swinging with a boy named Regan the rope broke. Regan…

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Fatal Accident on the Moree Racecourse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1896 · page 4

MOREE, Tuesday.—At Moree racecourse, which only recently was the scene of a fatal accident to a jockey, another fatality occurred on Monday. In the January Handicap Bohemia fell, and his jockey,…

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