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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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A Sad Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Thursday.—Yesterday a young man named John Kelly, aged 17, met his death whilst riding along the Dungowan-road to attend his brother's wedding breakfast. It appears deceased,…

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A Burning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 6

It was reported to the coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, on Wednesday that a widow named Ellen Gillespie bad died at her residence, Roseville, Ocean-street, Double Bay, from the effects of burns received on…

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Drowned While in a Fit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 2

About noon on Thursday Mr. Frederick Bruce Graham, part proprietor of the "Warren Herald," while standing on the jetty on the eastern side of Farm Cove, was seen to fall into the water. An…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

ON Monday last (Boxing Day) Mr, H. H. Dickson met with a series of misfortunes. He had conducted the cake and fruit stall at Wombat races and in the evening when conveying his…

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Collision

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 2

A COLLISION occurred in Cooma Street yesterday morning, between two vehicles, but fortunately nobody was hurt. It appears that Mr. Oxley's coachman was driving a drag…

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A Double Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

ON Monday of last week Mr. H. H. Dickson, a resident of Young, was returning in a cart from the Wombat races, when the wheel got into a rut and the jolting threw him out, the wheel passing over…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

A LAD named Edward Stuckey, aged 15, met with an accident at his father's brick works, Edinburgh Castle, on Monday morning. He was working on lop of a kiln and accidentally fell off, breaking his…

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Cable News. Fearful Accident in Canada. Thirty Persons Killed. London, Jan. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1898 · page 2

A shocking disaster occurred to-day at London, Ontario, Canada, where the municipal elections are proceeding. While one of the candidates was addressing a…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1898 · page 4

GUARD W. HOLLIS, on the Cooma train, was unfortunate enough to got part of the middle finger on the left hand badly crushed at Tarago on Tuesday during shunting operations, the finger being caught…

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Railway Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 3

A railway accident has occured, owing to the Scotch express, via the East Coast route, becoming derailed at Dunbar after collision with a coal waggon…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 2

THE East Coast Scotch express was dernailed after a collision with a coal waggon at Dunbar. There was a terrible smash, Three carriages were…

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Collision at the Parramatta Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 2

THE 5.25 train from Parramatta to Sydney was run into by a shunting engine at Parramatta Railway station on Friday evening. The train was waiting at the platform for an engine when the…

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Accident at Marengo

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 2

ON Monday a very serious accident happened to a son of Mr. P. O‘Connor of Calabash. The young man had climbed a tree to kill an iguana. He cut the limb on which the iguana was and…

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Collision in the English Channel. London, Jan. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1898 · page 4

A disastrous collision has occurred in the English Channel, off the Isle of Wight, between the Atlantic liner Lepanto and the steamer Knight of St. George. The Lepanto sank, but all on board were saved…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1898 · page 2

ABOUT two o'clock this afternoon a horse in a fruit-cart driven by Mr. J. Summergreene fell in Chfford-street, throwing out the driver, who who was badly out about the…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 January 1898 · page 2

ON Sunday last a very serious accident happened to Mr. Nicholas Jasprizza. He was driving to Young and when turning the corner near Mr. Allan Campbell’s residence the buggy overturned…

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A Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1898 · page 2

WAGGA WAGGA, Wednesday.—A sad drowning fatality occurred yesterday. Miss Rebecca Irving went out on Tuesday afternoon with a party on a fishing excursion to near Gumley Common. The…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1898 · page 2

MR. R. S. ROWE, butcher, had an unpleasant experience in Clifford-street on Tuesday evening. A mare which he was driving in a sulky commenced kicking viciously, and Mr. Rowe was thrown out…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1898 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon a painful accident happened to a young man named Edward Dwyer who is employed as a blacksmith, &c., at Mr. E. Nor[?]oyle’s. Whilst engaged…

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