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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

503 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 26

Fearful Fatal Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 2

A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, terminating fatally, occurred at Nichols's farm, about two miles from Burrows, on Friday evening. Michael Dwyer, who was employed sinking…

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Sad Fatality at Leichhardt

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 3

"I HAVE shot my wife," were the words of John Augustus Hazel on Friday afternoon, as he rushed from his house in a frightened condition. Mr. Arthur Nicholls, a neighbour, at once went to see…

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Collision at New York. London, March 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 2

A collision has occurred in the harbour at New York between the steamers Bourgogne and Ailsa. The Ailsa was so badly damaged that she sank. She was manned by a foreign crow, who, when they…

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Fatal Yachting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday.—Owing to the capsizing of the yacht Waitangi at Lyttelton it is feared that three lives have been lost. Messrs. W. F. Warner of the Commercial Hotel, Christchurch), Murray…

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Scalding Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 4

A little child aged fifteen months, daughter of Mr. Winters, of Gundary, pulled a kettle of boiling water over itself at dinner time on Sunday, and badly scalded both legs and an arm. Mr. A…

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Six Hundred Arabs Drowned. London, March 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1896 · page 4

The river Tigris, in Asiatic Turkey, has overflowed its banks and flooded the surrounding country. Six hundred Arabs in Mesopotamia have been drowned…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 5

MR. JAMES McCLELLAND of Bangalore had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse (a young one) this afternoon, and had one of his knees budly hurt. He was taken to the…

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Buggy Accident. Rev. Canon Shaw Killed

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 2

Singleton, Wednesday.--A fatal buggy accident occurred about 1 o'clock to-day. The Rev. Canon B. E. Shaw, after paying a visit to a sick parishioner, and whilst in the act of getting into…

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A Boy Drowned in a Waterhole

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 3

ON Friday afternoon a number of boys were bathing in a waterhole at the back of the brickworks at St. Peters, when one of their number, a boy named John M'Mahon, aged 16 years, who…

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Fatal Accident at the Flemington Sale Yards

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 4

AT the conclusion of the sales of fat stock on Thursday at the Flemington Sale Yards, a man named John Seymour, in the employ of Messrs. Windfred and Tancred, carcase butchers, was…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 3

A MINER named Bates was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital on Friday in an unconscious state and suffering from terrible injuries to the head. He was brought in from Crookwell. The…

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Two Boys Drowned at Granville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a fatality occurred at Duck River. Two little boys, Alfred Henry M'Millan, aged 9, son of Mr. Henry M'Millan, Granville, and Thomas James Sargent, son of Mr. T. J. Sargent,…

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Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 2

THE police have received information that a man named Bryan Joseph Brogan, a drever, a resident of Goulburn, was drowned on the 1st instant, while crossing horses ever the…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning, about hall-past 7 o'clock, Mr. T. J. Sheekey was delivering cordials at the Royal Hotel, and when in the act of taking some bottles out of the…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 March 1896 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon Mrs. [?] wife of [?] [?] right arm in two places between the [?]…

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Drowning

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 2

The police hare received information that a man named Byran Joseph Brogan, a drover, a resident of Goulburn, was drowned on the 1st instant, while crossing horses over the Narran…

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Accident to Mrs. Grainger

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 2

MRS. Grainger, wife of Superintendent Grainger, met with a several accident at her residence on Sunday evening. She came out on to the verandah to hour a passing band and in turning round to re-enter the…

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Fatal Accident in the Bush

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1896 · page 3

MUSWELLBROOK, Sunday.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Kayuga, four miles from here, to a young man named James Gall. He went into the bush for a load of wood, and later in the day his…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 2

WHILE riding at the Gurrundah Picnic Races yesterday, a lad named Denis McCabe, fourteen years of age, son of Mr. Charles McCabe of Pome[?] met with a serious accident. It…

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Accidents

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 2

DURING the week two accidents, which have been placed under the care of Dr. Hutchings, occurred. A man named Smith whilst shoeing a horse received a severe kick from the animal in…

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