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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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A Strange Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 July 1898 · page 3

Adelaide, Monday.—William Uden, Customs official, living at Semaphore, took a fit last night, during which he dislocated his shoulder. Two doctors this morning tried to put the bone back in…

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The Cycling Accident in William street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1898 · page 4

IT is now some months since a collision occurred in William-street between a pedestrian named Margaret Foley and a cyclist named Walter Gahagan, and…

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A Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1898 · page 4

BOMBALA, Thursday.—An accident of a peculiar nature happened to Mr. Lloyd Rampling last night. He was reading in bed by a candle, and afterwards dropped asleep. He was awakened by a loud…

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Accident to a Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 4

Walter Conolly, 20, a clerk, residing at Waverley, was riding a bicycle along Oxford-street shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday night when he was run over by a bus. He…

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Fatal Accident at Petersham

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 4

A YOUTH named Alexander Leader, 16, carter, residing at Sheppard-street, Darlington, received fatal injuries on Saturday through being crushed against a cart in the…

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Fatal Accident at Mosman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 2

ON Saturday last a youth named Harry Lowe, 9 years of age, residing with his parents at 14 Chandos-street, North Sydney, met with a fatal accident at Mosman. It…

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Sad and Fatal Accident Magisterial Inquiry

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 2

LAST Thursday afternoon Mr T. A. Barnes, Coroner held a magisterial inquiry at the Court House, Murrumburrah, touching the death of Thomas Gowrlay, who met with an…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 4

Singleton, Wednesday.—Particulars are to hand of the shooting fatality at Putty mentioned in to-day's Herald. Three youths from Granville, named Frank Hurst, Flood, and Hyslop, went to Putty…

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Railway Collision at Bohemia. London, Aug. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 2

A disastrous collision between two railway trains occurred on Saturday in the town of Grun, Bohemia. Seven persons were killed and 25 were injured…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last the Rev. Daniel Jackson, and Mrs. Jackson were visiting in North Yass. The Rev. Mr. Jackson got out, leaving Mrs. Jackson in the phaeton. The…

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Fatal Driving Accident at Botany

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 4

ON Friday night Mr. Joseph A. Tunbridge, aged 45, residing at Sutherland-street, North Botany, and employed as mailman to deliver the mails between Botany, the Coast Hospital, and the cable station at…

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Shooting Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 August 1898 · page 2

A young man about twenty-five, eldest son of Mr. Bugden of Eastgrove, accompanied by his brother, vent to Yarra on Monday for a load of wood, taking a loaded gun with them…

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Drowning of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 4

ABOUT 10 a.m. on Tuesday a Mrs. Streeter, wife of Albert Robert Streeter, left her residence, Rolfe's-terrace, North Botany, to visit her mother-in-law some short distance away. She left three children…

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A Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A man named James Edwards, aged 30, employed by the Melbourne Tramway Company, was working in a man-hole on the tram line at South Melbourne to-day, when…

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Fatal Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 4

Melbourne, Tuesday.—A fatal bicycle accident happened at 1 o'clock this morning to a man named Alexander Gibson, aged 37, who recently returned from Western Australia. He was…

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Serious Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Bugden, living with his parents at Eastgrove, met with a serious accident on Monday evening. He went out to Yarra with his brother to get a load of wood, and they had a…

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Accident Near Carrick

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 2

ON Wednesday John Barker, (28) employed at Mr. J. J. McShane's kiln near Carrick, was quarrying lime when an embankment of sand fell on him. He was released by his…

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Late Shooting Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 2

FREDERIC BUGDEN, the young man who had his right arm severely injured on Monday by the discharge of a gun, had the injured limb amputated at the hospital loot evening by…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 2

Mrs. Norman Howard mot with a nasty accident on Tuesday last whilst proceeding along the Goulburn road. When near Cartwright's old garden,…

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The Nundle Shooting Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Thursday.—Elizabeth Warden, 27, who was shot in the abdomen at Nundle on Tuesday night, succumbed to her injuries in the Tamworth Hospital at an early hour this morning. In her…

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