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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

372 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 19

Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 3

A PAINTUL, accident occurred to Mr. A. Rowlands of Currawang on Saturday last. He was chopping, when the axe caught in something overhead and altered its course, with…

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Bicycle Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 3

WHILE training on the showground track on Friday last Mr. W. Kingsell junior had a rather nasty fall. He was removing his hat, which caused the machine to swerve and…

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Accident at Currawang

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1897 · page 2

Mr. A. Rowlands, of Currawang, experienced a painful accident on Saturday last. As he was chopping, the axe caught overhead, and its course was altered. The large too of the right foot was…

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Accident at the Waterworks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1897 · page 3

A PAINTER named William Anderson fell from a scaffold at the waterworks on Tuesday evening, and had a narrow escape from death. The accident occurred inside the new room just erected for the…

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Fatal Cycling Accident. London, April 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 April 1897 · page 4

A. W. Harris, the well-known English cyclist, who visited Australia a short time since, died to-day from the effects of injuries received through an accident while cycling at the Aston Grounds,…

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Gun Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 April 1897 · page 2

ON Saturday, Herbert Harper, about seventeen, was louding a gun whilst out shooting, when the powder charge exploded and severely burnt him about the face…

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Sensational Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 2

SELDOM indeed do men while engaged in the ordinary work of sewer-cleaning suddenly find themselves carried off their feet by a rushing torrent and precipitated to a fearful end. This…

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Fatal Railway Accident.—Heroism of a Girl

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 April 1897 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA, Monday.—A fatal accident occurred on the railway line this afternoon at 2 o'clock. As a goods train was approaching Fettler Moore's town common crossing on the road to the residence…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1897 · page 2

MR. JOHN MORRICE of Waroma near Marulan met with an accident while riding home from Merulan on Saturday evening. The saddle girth broke and he was thrown…

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The Fatal Accident at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 3

A CORONER'S inquest was held at Cootamundra on Tuesday touching the death of Alice Moore, who lost her life on the previous day by running in front of a passing train to save her infant brother…

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Remarkable Burning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 2

THE Newcastle City Coroner (Mr. G. O. Martin) held an inquest on Friday at Ralph's Family Hotel relative to the death by burning of a married woman, 10 years of age, named Catherine Ann Meloney,…

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A Father Accidentally Shoots his Son

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 2

GULGONG, Friday.—A magisterial inquiry was held at Ulan to-day by ML. S. T. Bishop, on the body of Thomas Lovelook Loughrey, aged 14, eldest son of Mr. William Loughrey, farmer, who died…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 2

A BOY named William Riley, about 16 years of age, was seriously injured on the Crookwell road on Friday afternoon. He was driving a waggon and riding on the load. The waggon went into a…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 3

ON Friday a boy named Willie Wray, aged about seventeen, son of Mr. J. T. Wray, carrier of Crookwell, met with a serious accident. The lad was driving a team of horses…

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The Balmain Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 2

THE Sydney Coroner hold a magisterial inquiry on Monday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Christina Elizabeth Endyoott, 4½ years of ago, which ocourred on Sunday. Deceased was…

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Fatality at a Racecourse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 4

GULGONG, Saturday.-A magisterial inquiry was held to-day by Mr. Bishop on the body of William Owens, aged 34, who died yesterday from injuries received at the Goolma racecourse on Friday…

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A Child Drowned in a Tank

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon Catherine Elizabeth Endycott, aged 4½ years, was drowned in a tank at Cormack's cooperage, Mansfield-street, Balmain. Prior to the fatality several children had been…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Sunday.—An accident occurred on the railway line last night by which Mrs. Winter, a widow, received injuries which resulted in her death within a few hours. The deceased was in charge…

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Fatal Accident at Gunnedah

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 3

GUNNEDAH, Monday.—Last evening, as the Salvation Army were holding a meeting in Conadilly-street, William Tacey, a vandriver, who was driving into town, called to the people to make a…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 2

LISMORE, Monday.—A fatal shooting accident occurred a few miles out of town yesterday. several youths were out shooting, two of them carrying carbines loaded with ball cartridge. By…

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