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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Thursday, 2.49 p.m. Blasting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 March 1896 · page 2

A SERIOUS blasting accident occurred at the Centennial Park this morning. A labourer named Thomas Noble was terribly injured about the face and body, and another man received injuries of a less serious…

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Accident at Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 March 1896 · page 2

A LAD named Denis McCabe, 14 years of age, son of Mr. Charles MicCabe, Pomeroy, sustained serious injuries through an accident at the Gurrundah Picnic Races on Tuesday. He was riding in…

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Loss of a British Steamer. Explosion of Gunpowder. Forty Men Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 March 1896 · page 3

The British steamer Matadi, 2683 tons register, owned by the British and African Navigation Company of Glasgow, has been destroyed at Boma, Congo Free…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Friday, 3.30 p.m. Death From Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 March 1896 · page 2

RICHARD VICKERS, a sabmso, was injured on sunday owing to a callision between the vEhicle be was driving and the george tram. He died in the hospital to-day…

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Drowning Fatality at Bourke

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 4

BOURKE, Thursday.—A sad drowning fatality occurred this afternoon. Two little boys named Albert Lco Davidson and George Robertson, aged about 7, went to bathe in the railway reservoir, near…

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A Shocking Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 4

ALBURY, Thursday.—A young man, named Nixon, a resident of Woomagama, met his death yesterday in a shocking manner. He and his mother and sisters were loading a waggon with…

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Three Miners Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 6

NEWS from Mount Magnet (W.A.) states that the New Chum mine has been flooded with storm water and that three men were drowned, namely Arthur Daniels, Wm. Campbell, and Roger Cook…

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Accident to Rev. Father Campbell

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 2

A NARROW escape from a fatal accident occurred to the Rev. Father Campbell, of Young, on Wednesday evening last (reports the Gundagai TIMES) The rev. gentleman, who was…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday, 2.47 p.m. Shocking Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 4

A CARRIER named Richard sustained shocking injuries to-day through being crushed by an enormous millstone. His condition is critical. THE FIRST OFFENDERS ACT…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Saturday, 12.56 p.m. Fatal Result of an Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 3

RICHARD RYAN, a carrier, who was fearfully crushed yesterday through a millstone falling upon him, expired in the hospital to-day. LONDON WOOL SALES…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Monday, 3 p.m. a Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1896 · page 3

occurned this meeting at Adam's new thoatre in Pit[?] a number of brichleyers were at work on a[?] when in suddenly [?] the centre and the…

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Fatality at Sea

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 4

HOBART, Sunday.—On Wednesday night, during the voyage of the Muraroa from Melbourne to Hobart, a steorage passenger named F. J. Rigg, who was suffering severely from sea sickness, went…

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Accident to Rev. Father Campbell

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

A narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred to the Rev. Father Campbell, of Young, on Wednesday evening last (reports the Gundagai Times). The Rev. gentleman, who was…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

An accident attended with fatal results occurred at North Sydney on Monday, about 1 p.m., to a child 4 years of age, named Elsie Winifred Young, residing with her parents in Lewington-lane, North…

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Serious Accident to Mr. Gibson

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

MR. A. F. GIBSON, of Burrungurroolong, met with a severe accident whilst riding in one of his paddocks on Saturday last. His horse fell with him, and he sustained a very dangerous wound on the…

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Shooting Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 3

Stanley Shepherd, aged eleven, son of the Hon. P. L. C. Shepherd, was returning home to Colo Vale last night from a day's schooling, and on reaching the verandah his gun went…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 3

ON Saturday Mr. A. F. Gibson of Barrungurroulong was riding in one of his baddocks, when his horse suddenly tripped and fall, and Mr. Gibson received a serious scalp…

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Severe Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 2

THIS morning Mr. D. McCallum of Wowagin was carting his milk to the Taralga factory, and in turning into the Bannaby road, near Mr. J. Whiting's residence, one of the…

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Serious Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 2

A young man named Nixon, a resident of Woomagama, Albury, met his death on Wednesday in a shocking manner. He and his mother and sisters were loading a waggon with…

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Accident at Taralga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 2

An accident happened at Taralga on the morning of the second day of the show. Mr. Donald McCallum, of Wowagin, an aged man, was bringing his milk to the Taralga factory, and on turning…

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