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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 6

DUBBO, Thursday.—Mrs. Crowe, the wife of Mr. M. E. Crowe, a selector residing near Canonbar, was thrown from her horse whilst riding home at dusk last Sunday evening…

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Bathing Fatality. Sad Case of Drowning. Melbourne, Saturday Night

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2

AT Middle Brighton Baths this afternoon Mrs. Strange, a local resident, was drowned. Her husband was fishing near by, and was waiting patiently for his wife's return when the sad…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

A little boy named Frederick Chuck, aged 4½ years, living at North Goulburn, fell from the doorstep on Saturday last and broke his right arm at the elbow joint. He fractured the arm in the…

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Found Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 2

THIS (Thursday) morning Mr. James Goodwin, a resident of Milbank, who had been missing since Tuesday last was found drowned in a deep waterhole between Collector and…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.3 p.m. Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 4

A LABOURER was killed at Mort's Dock this morning. He was crushed by a mass of iron. Federation…

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Fatal Accident at the George-street Markets

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 4

THE fortunate immunity from fatal accidents which has hitherto marked the progress of the erection of the new markets in George-street was broken on Tuesday, when, in consequence of a…

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Found Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 2

YESTERDAY the coroner, Mr H. O'Brien, held an inquest at Mr. Francis Goodwin's, Millbang near Collector, on the body of James Goodwin, a settler, single, aged forty-eight…

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Gales in the North Sea. 45 Fishermen Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

Terrific weather has prevailed in the English Channel and the North Sea Forty-five fishermen have been drowned off the Lofoden Islands, Norway…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 2

JOHN HARDING, blacksmith, was thrown from a b[?]kjumper in Bourke-street on Wednesday night, and was kicked in several places whilst lying on the ground. He was greatly knocked…

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Found Drowned at Milbang

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 4

THE coroner held a magisterial inquiry on Thursday at the residence of Sir Francis Goodwin, Milbang, near Collector, touching the death of James Goodwin, a farmer, who was found drowned that…

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The Accident in Auburnstreet. Coroner's Inquest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

THE coroner's inquest on the death of William Sims, who was run over in Auburn-street on Friday evening last, was continued this morning at the court-house, before Mr. H, O'Brien. James Allen…

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Fatal Accident at Pyrmont

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

A SHOCKING death befel a labourer named Thomas Matthews at Pyrmont on Friday. With others Matthews was working at the demolition of some brickwork forming portion of an abandoned retort at…

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Fatal Bicycle Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

ON Sunday afternoon a young man named Victor Banaretos, of 36 Oxford-street, was riding his bicycle in company with a friend. On taking the road from the gate to the centre of Centsnnial Park…

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The Fatal Accident in Auburn-street. Resumption of the Inquest.— Verdict of Manslaughter

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 2

THE inquest on William Sims, who was fatally injured by being run over by a cab in Auburn-street on Friday night last, was resumed at the courthouse yesterday…

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Four Children Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tuesday—This morning while a number of children were playing in the first creek In Prince Alfred College grounds, Kenttown, a rush of water following the heavy rains came down, and…

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The Accident in Auburn-street. Coroner's Inquest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 4

THE coroner's inquest on the death of William Sims, who was run over in Auburn-street on Friday evening last, was continued on Tuesday at the court-house, before Mr. H. O'Brien. James Allen…

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Terrible Disaster. 200 Persons Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 3

The River Ohio has burst its bank at Shawnee Town, in the State of Illinois. The rushing waters destroyed the greater portion of the town, and two hundred of…

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Accidentally Exchanged

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 4

A WINDOW residing at Potsdam, Germany, lost her only daughter, who was staying at Nice for the benefit of her health. The mother telegraphed to an undertaker…

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Boating Fatality at Botany

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 4

EARLY on Friday morning information reached the police that two men had been drowned in Botany Bay, and that only one of the bodies had been recovered…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 4

A VERY peculiar accident happened in Goulburn on Wednesday evening to a boy named Thomas Callaghan, aged 11 years. He nearly filled a large bottle with unslacked lime and then he filled it with…

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