A Lift Fatality
SHORTLY after 6 o'clock on Thursday night Mr. Joseph Leeds, auctioneer and commission agent, was killed by falling down a lift at his offices in Camdenbuildings, 418 George street. Some clerks…
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Accidents, 1897
372 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 19
A Double Accident
TUMUT, Thursday.âA laboring man named Thompson fell from a ladder while he was making a wheat stack at Gilmore, and received a spinal injury. He was paralysed, and was sent by the…
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A MAN named Daniel Wiggins was out walking on Sunday afternoon in company with three of his nephews in the vicinity of Stephen's woolwash, Lower Botany, and had occasion to cross a narrow…
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ORANGE, Monday.âAt Frederick's Valley, near Lucknow, yesterday, a boy 8 years of age, named Edward Beasley, was sent to drive in the cows. He had to crass a creek. The boy put his horse to…
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On Saturday afternoon a carter named Martin, aged 30, residing at 403 Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, and employed at Davis's produce store, Parramatta, was driving a horse attached to a van…
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A very narrow escape occurred at Tang[?]garoo last Wednesday. A son of Mr. [?] Best was out with a pea rifle, and by some means the rifle went off, the bullet…
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MOLONG, Tuesday.âA terrible fatality occurred on the Sandy Creek road, between three and four miles from Molong, yesterday. A young man named Robert George Hyland, 20 years of age, a…
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LAST week as Mr. Matthew Cunningham of Tarlo was in the act of cutting saplings, the axe slipped and inflicted a deep gash in his leg. The injury was attended to by Dr. Mc…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Diving Fatality. Spinal Disease the Cause of Death. Evidence of Non-suffocation
On Friday morning all doubts were set at rest as to the cause of death of Christien Madsen, who died in a diving dress on an experimental trip in the deepest part of…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—When the 7.30 train from Sydney last night reached a spot about 500 yards north of the Mount Pleasant Coal Co.'s crossing the driver…
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YESTERDAY morning, Edward Cartwright of Eastgrove, aged twenty, was thrown from his horse and broke his left collar-bone. He was taken to Dr. Handcock's surgery, and had the…
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YESTERDAY Mr. O'Brien, coroner, held an inquiry at the house of Mrs. Weir. Coven Creek, on the body of Peter Weir, farmer, aged thirty-one, single, native of Coven…
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CORAKI, Wednesday.—A sad shooting fatality occurred this morning at Moonembar, seven miles from Coraki. A son of Mr. M'Donald, 9 years old, accidentally shot his 18-months' old sister with a…
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ON Tuesday last Mr. Harold O'Brien, coroner, held an inquiry at the dwelling-house of Sarah Weir at Covan Creek touching the death of Peter Weir, a farmer, 31 years of age, unmarried. From…
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ON Tuesday last a young man named Edward Cartwright, a resident of Eastgrove, was thrown from a restive horse and his left collar-bone broken. Cartwright was brought to the surgery of Dr…
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Yass, Tuesday.—A serious accident happened at the Oddfellows' sports to-day at the finish of the last horse race. One of the stirrups of a jockey broke, and as he could not see where he was going…
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Brisbane, Wednesday.-- A fearful accident occurred near the Laidley railway station. Early this morning a night-porter found a man's shirt saturated with blood lying on the…
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ON Saturday morning Ernest John Skinner, aged 7 years, was drowned while bathing with two other boys named Lee in a waterhole at Nash's paddock, Mortlake…
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LAWSON, Thursday.âA fatal accident occurred on Tuesday at Medlow to a lad named Harold M'Vicar, a resident of Burwood, but on a visit to the mountains. A number of friends were out…
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