Shocking Railway Accident. a Rockwood Resident Killed
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 February 1896 · page 2
Mr. John Reeve, photographer, and an old resident of Rookwood was run over and killed there by a train on Friday night. Deceased, it appears, was walking across the line at the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1896 · page 2
TOCUMWALL, Monday.âA painful accident occurred to a man named Ryan, employed at Beluble station. It appears that some tins of phosphorus became ignited, and the building was in danger of…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1896 · page 3
Patrick Maloney, an employe at Tooth's Brewery, was severely burnt this morning on the face and arms, the result of an explosion at the brewery…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 4
NARRANDERA, Monday.—James Hansell, 16, was drowned in a tank yesterday at Roache's paddock, Colinroobie. Though able to swim, when he went beyond his depth he sank. A boy named Kite went…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2
OBERON, Wednesday.âA drowning accident of a distressing character occurred this afternoon, resulting in the death of three boys, named respectively Fred Whiteley (aged 11), Herbert Whiteley (aged…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 4
A SAD drowning fatality was reported to the Kogarah police on Monday evening. A lad named Roy Hamilton Brown, an adopted child of Robert and Blanche Roberts, aged four years, was…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 4
Balranald, Tuesday.—A sad drowning accident took place at Meilman station yesterday afternoon. Julian (18), Emily (15), and Tottie (12), the three daughters of Mr. John Illsley, manager of Meilman…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A sad shooting fatality occurred this afternoon at Terang. Joseph M'Millan (aged 31), his cousin (Thomas M'Millan, aged 14), and W. T. Baxter had been out shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Saturday, 1.2 p.m. Fatality at Wollongong
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 3
F. RUSSELL McCABE, second son of Mr. F. P. McCabe, the largest landed proprietor in the Wollongong district, was found on the estate yesternight with blood flowing copiously from a…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 2
A shocking accident occurred yesterday at a colliery at Leigh, in Lancashire. While a number of miners were being lowered in a cage the rope broke, and the cage with its…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 February 1896 · page 2
ON saturday morning John Mitchell of Auburn-stock South, comployed at Messrs. Baxter and Co.'s boat factory as a fiuleher, had his right houd entangled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident. North Sydney Fireman Killed. Skull Smashed in by an Engine
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 February 1896 · page 2
A shocking accident resulting in the death of a fireman, named John Edward Kessel, occurred at Geddes s Wool Store, Kirribilli Point about noon on Saturday. Kessel, who was 49 years of age…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 February 1896 · page 2
Wollongong, Saturday.--The town was start led last night by a report that Mr. Russell MacCabe, a son of Mr. Russell MacCabe, J.P., o. Russell Vale, had beer, found dead. It appears…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1896 · page 2
Wollongong, Sunday.âMr. Russell M'Cabe, son of Mr. F. P. M'Cabe, J.P., of Russell Vale, Bellambi, and brother of Major M'Cabe, was found dead about 300 yards from his residence by his two…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1896 · page 4
A little girl named Ruby Trompp, aged about seven years, living with her parents in Ellesmere-street, fell into a tub of boiling water on Saturday night, and was badly scalded. The attendance of…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1896 · page 2
TO-DAY shortly after noon a boy, aged ten, son of Mr. William Potter of Eastgrove, fell over a stone while returning from school, and dislocated the right arm at the shoulder. He…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 2
BATHURST, Wednesday.—An accident, which terminated fatally, occurred at Tuena on Sunday. William Jeffs, boundary rider for Mr. J. Costigan, of Cook's Vale, was thrown from his horse, and so…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 4
A BOY named Henry Porter, son of Mr. William Porter, Eastgrove, fell over a stone while running from school yesterday morning, and dislocated his right forearm at the elbow. The injury was…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A telegram from Wangaratta reports that a boy, aged 9, and a girl, aged 10, children of John Nolan, a farmer, were playing to-day with a pea-rifle. The girl aimed at a stump,…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 2
MR. R. H. Matthews, deputy coroner, heldaning est on Saturday morning on the bodies of Olive Vera Dwyer (11 years and 4 months) and Lyla Clarice Dwyer (8…
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