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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

503 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 26

Vehicle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1896 · page 2

As Dr, McMastor was returning from Mr. Faithfull's funeral on Sunday the hind axle of his buggy was broken. The vehicle having a high back, the occupants were fortunately not thrown…

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Fatal Accident at Grabben Gullen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1896 · page 2

A YOUNG man named William Stapleton, residing at Grabben Gullen, met with an accident on Sunday afternoon, which had a fatal termination on Monday morning. He was riding a young horse, which…

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Accident at Football

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1896 · page 4

SPENCER KREMER, whilst playing with the Wallaroos on Saturday against the Pioneers was knocked down and had his collar-bone dislocated He was brought to Dr. Handcock's surgery, and…

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Painful Accident

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

MR. CARLESS, who lives in Victoria Parade, met with a painful accident on Tuesday evening whilst working with molten metal at the City Foundry. The metal overflowed and fell on Mr. Carless's left…

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Double Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Thursday.—Mr. Timothy Cosgrove and Mr. Robert Saunders, of Taranaki, settlers, were drowned yesterday by the capsizing of a canoe whilst they were returning from a school committee…

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200 Chinese Drowned. London, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 2

The steamers Newchang and Onwo came into collssion yesterday near Woosung, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River, China. The Onwo sank, and 200 Chinese on board were…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1896 · page 4

ON Thursday evening a number of boys were playing about some railway trucks at a siding at the Rockdale railway station, when a lad named Walter Wilson, aged 12 years, residing at Duff-street,…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 May 1896 · page 3

Mrs. Abigail Smith, aged seventy-five. living at Botany-street, Waterloo, was knocked down by a tram this morning, and seriously injured. She died in the hospital this after…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 May 1896 · page 3

A man named Atkins, sunter at Rook. wood railway-station, fell on the rails. Some of the trucks passed over his neck commpletely severing his head from his body…

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A Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 2

AN old lady named Mrs. Abigail Smith received injuries at the intersection of Regent and Marian streets, Redfern, on Monday that shortly afterwards had a fatal termination. The old lady, who lived…

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Fatal Accident at Rockwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1896 · page 2

MR. J. E. Bowden, the Parramatta coroner, held an inquest at Rockwood on Monday touching the death of John Cuthbert Thew, a railway porter, engaged at the Rookwood railway station…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 2

A BOY named David Shiels, whilst cutting firewood with a circular saw at Inveralocby yesterday, had the misfortune to lacerate his right hand rothor badly. The sufferer was…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 2

A shocking fatal Accident occurred at Mudgee, on Thursday Afternoon, at the flour mills owned by Mr. George Crossing, a member of one of the oldest families,…

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Dreadful Accident at a Circus

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 4

ON Thursday night a dreadful accident occurred at Messrs. Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus in Sydney. It was the "opening night," and a great audience was gathered In the large tent. Towards the close…

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Accident at Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 4

A LAD named Percy Shiel, son of Mr. Shiel, of Tarago, met with a painful accident at Inveralochy on Thursday whilst cutting firewood with a circular saw. His hand got foul of the saw with the result…

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Dreadful Accident at a Circus

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 May 1896 · page 2

On Thursday night a dreadful accident occurred at Messrs. Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus in Sydney. It was the "opening night," and a great audience was gathered in the large tent. Towards the…

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A Shocking Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 May 1896 · page 2

TOCUMWAL, Monday.—A shocking accident, by which a well-known district identity named John Blows lost his life, occurred on Friday evening, about dusk, between Katunga and Numurkah, on…

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Serious Accident to a Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 May 1896 · page 2

ON Friday night last week one of those simple accidents whoso results turn out very seriously occurred to Master Cyril Skates, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James Skates, of Junee (reports the local…

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Terrible Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 May 1896 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday—A terrible accident occurred at the Buninyoung Estate claim at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning. Augustus Kent (twenty-two), son of the…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 May 1896 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a young man named Richard Neale, residing in Auburn-street, bad his left arm [?] and rather badly injured at the shoulder. He was taken to Dr…

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