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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

372 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 10 of 19

Sad Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 2

THE sad news reached Yass during Sunday night that Mr. James Alt, stationmaster at Hill Top, had been run over by a train and had both his legs cut off. From the news to hand…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 2

LAST week Mr. S. M. Watson of Sydney road near Goulburn, whilst carrying some palings across the yard, had the misfortune to trend on a rusty nail, which went deeply into his…

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A Burning Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 2

ABOUT three weeks ago Mr. B. Cooper of Mummel was burning rubbish, and left the fire to go to dinner. Daring his absence his daughter Elsie, aged seven, and her brother…

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Accident at Barber's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

AN accident that might have had very serious consequences happened to a youth named Albert Gardiner on Wednesday last. As he was riding down a stoop hill not far from his homo the pony he…

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Fatal Tram Accident at Redfern

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 4

ON Monday evening when the 7 o'clock tram from Botany reached the junction of Redfern and Regent streets several children as the tram turned the corner ran across the line. Driver Harry O'Kieffe seeing…

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A Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred on the tramline in Elizabeth-street on Friday night. It appears that a Globe tram outward hound was about to be stopped near the intersection of Market-street, when…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3

YOUNG, Thursday.—A fatal mining accident occurred yesterday at Spring Creek. James Lovett and his son, aged 11 years, were in a drive where the father was working, when the ground gave way,…

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A Tram Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 June 1897 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred on the tramline in Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Friday night. It appears that a Glebe tram outward benad was about to be stepped near the…

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Serious Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

A COUPLE of weeks ago, Mr. J. Hollingsworth of Murrumbateman, met with a serious accident through the bursting of a gun which he was holding. Mr. Hollingsworth's face and…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning, Mr. W. J. Pope of Auburn-street, engineer, had the middle finger of his left hand cut off at the middle joint by the knife of a chaffeutter. At the…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 2

On Wednesday last, a young child of Mr. J. Barber, of Boambolo had his fingers badly crushed in a mangle. One was so terribly injured that Dr Thane ordered his removal…

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Sad Fatality at Frogmore

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 2

News rerched Burrowa on Thursday that the residence of Mr. George Reynolds, at Frogmore, had been destroyed by fire on the previous night, and one of the inmates burned…

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The Fatal Cycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on William Lawson Robinson, who was killed in a cycle road race on Saturday by his machine collapsing while…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 4

COOTAMUNDRA, Saturday.—The body of a man was found this morning on the railway line near Cootamundra station, terribly mangled, all the trains during the night having passed over it. The…

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Accidents

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 2

ON Friday last Mr. Peterson, of the Federal Store, and blaster J. M'Nally, were driving a young colt in a sulky for the first time, and when opposite Mr. Will. Thomson's the animal…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 July 1897 · page 2

NEWS has been received in town of a fatal accident in Western Australia to a former resident of the Bungonia district, Mr. Michael Blake Leonard. Mr. Leonard was travelling by train, and at Fifteen…

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Accident at Gundagi

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 2

A serious accident happened on Saturday to a Chinaman, who was a passenger by Eurell and Lake's mail coach from Tumut on Saturday last. Mr. J. Lake was driving the…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday, 1.45 p.m. Boys Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 4

SOME boys playing with powder at Hurstville to-day were injured, but not seriously. Sunday Closing of Shops. The Mayor has declined to grant the…

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Serious Tram Accident. Six Persons Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 4

A SERIOUS tramway accident occurred on Sunday evening about 7 o'clock in Oxford-street, Paddington, at the bottom of Barrack-hill. Two trams travelling on the same line to Sydney collided, and…

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Terrible Railway Collision. London, July 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 4

A terrible railway accident has occurred in Denmark. The Hellsingor express came into collision with a passenger train at the town of Gecentofte. Several cars were wrecked…

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