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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Football Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 3

A BOY named Charles Knight, aged 13 years, met with an accident on Wednesday whilst playing football. He fell heavily on his right shoulder and fractured his right collar bone. He was brought to…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 May 1898 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning a young man [?] William [?] slipped on a plead of [?] in [?] and brian hay [?] It was [?] by Dr. Hand…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1898 · page 4

A YOUNG man named William Verrender, living sat Eastgrove, slipped on a piece of banana skin in Sloane-street on Sunday, and broke his right arm. He was taken to Dr. Handcock's surgery, whore the…

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Severe Accident at Captain's Flat

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 5

ON Monday night a miner named Peter Knight had a narrow escape from death. He and two others were engaged in blasting in the Lake George mines. They had put in…

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Shooting Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 2

On Saturday night last two boys named James Yeomans aged 12 years and Henry Scott 15 years,in the employ of Mr A. Simpson, of Harden,…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 2

A Young man named John Young, a resident of Annandale street, Annandale, met with a sudden death on Monday as the result of being run over by a cart in which he had been sitting. He was…

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Fatal Cycling Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 1

Melbourne, Friday.—A young man named John M'Neil, residing at Northcote, was riding a bicycle on his way home from business last night, and in going along Smith-street, Collingwood, he dashed…

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A Fatal Burning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 4

On Sunday morning a widow named Eliza Macdonald who was 75 years of age, met with an accident which subsequently resulted in her death. It appears that she was alone at her residence in…

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Loss of the Maitland. Names of the Drowned and Missing

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2

THE anxiety which prevailed in Sydney and Newcastle on Friday and Saturday, when the news that the well-known passenger steamer Maitland was many hours overdue in making the journey…

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Storms and Shipwrecks. Terrible Shipping Disasters. a Record of Wrecks. Wreck of the Maitland. Thirty Persons Drowned. Foundering of the Merksworth. Nine Seamen Perish

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 3

The report that the steamer Maitland had gone ashore on the rugged coast above Broken Bay was confirmed by the messages received in Sydney on Saturday…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 2

LAST evening Mr. C. Baynes, booking clerk Goulburn railway station, left the office, and went on the platform to receive the staff from a goods train. This train is usually on…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 2

A VERY painful accident happened to Mr John Cox, of North Yass, on Wednesday last Mr. Cox started out for a load of wood and or reaching the common, about four miles from…

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Accident at the Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 4

MR. BAYNES, booking clerk at the Goulburn Railway Station, met with an accident or, Thursday evening. During the absence of Mr. Gould, station. master, be is responsble for the tablets and he ran out…

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Extraordinary Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 2

Goulburn, Saturday.--An accident of an extraordinary nature happened to Mr, Baynes, the booking clerk at the railway station, on Thursday night. He was attending to the…

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Fatal Accident. Killed with a Lead Pencil

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1898 · page 2

Mr. C. BAYNES, booking clerk at the Goulburn railway station, died at the Goalburn hospital at 6.30 on Wednesday evening from the effects of the accident which befel him whilst on duty on…

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Death From Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 3

MS. C. BAYNES, booklng-clerk, Goulburn railway-station, died in the hospital at 6.80 p.m. on Wednesday from the effects of injuries he received through a pencil he had in…

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Fatal Railway Accident. an Old Man Cut to Pieces

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 2

On arrival of a goods train at the Ryde Railway Station at an early hour on Sunday morning the driver Embleton, discovered the body of a man terribly mutiliated. The night…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 2

Mr. Percy Kingston sustained a nasty accident this morning. He was riding home from Kenmore with another cyclist, and whilst the two were passing a woodcart, one on either side, Mr…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 May 1898 · page 2

ON Saturday as Mr. Peicy Kingston was riding his bike from Kenmore, in passing a cart he collided with it and was thrown against a faces with great force and had his collarbone…

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Accidents

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 May 1898 · page 2

Last Tuesday morning Mr. Richard Bateup of Nanima was in the act of mounting a young horse for the purpose of riding to Gundaroo sports. The morning being cold…

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