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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Peculiar Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

BOMBALA, Wednesday.--A peculiar accident happened at Catheart on Wednesday to a French dentist named Joseph Tarasco. With several friends he was talking about gun…

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Victorian Cycling Carnival. Numerous Accidents. Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 3

THE annual race meeting of the League of Victorian Wheelmen opened on Saturday on the Melbourne Cricket Ground with perfect weather, in the Cricket Ground with perfect…

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Fatal Accident at Annandale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 4

While playing on the Booth-street bridge, Annandale, on Saturday afternoon, a boy, 5 years of age, named Adam Roy Oxspring, residing with his parents at 126 Young-street, Annandale, fell on to…

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Fatal Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 4

A TRAMWAY accident, by which a young man named William Savage Deongley was killed, occurred in Elizabeth-street on Saturday night. Deongley was endeavouring…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday, 1.21 p.m. Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

IN the case of the tram accident in Elizabeth-street the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Deceased had been riding on the footboard of a crowded tram and was…

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Somerville, the Cyclist, Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 4

A number of the competitors at the cycling sports at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday night fell, but only one man was seriously hurt. He was James Somerville,…

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A Terrible Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

TINGHA, Monday.—A terrible accident happened on Sunday afternoon to Mrs. Patrick Burke, of New Valley, Tingha. Mrs. Burke, accompanied by her two children, aged five and eight years, had been…

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Accident at Binalong

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

On Friday evening last a young woman named Mary Barry, residing at Binalong, was walking from the house to the kitchen when her foot slipped on a board causing her to fall…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

MISS LANGDON, an employe at the Royal Hotel, met very painful injuries on Sunday through being thrown from a sulky. She was driving with two companions, and the accident happened at a…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday, 1.22 p.m. The Fatal Accident to Somerville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

THE inquest to-day on the cyclist Somerville resulted in a verdict of accidental death. Deceased was described as a careful rider, and the course was well lighted. It is thought…

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Accident in Auburn-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1899 · page 2

MRS. LONERGAN, wife of one of the warders at the gaol, mot with an accident in Auburn-street on Tuesday evening, and had a narrow escape from serious injury. She was driving in a sulky, and…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 2

A TEA AGENT from Sydney, Mr. Miller, when leaving the Argyle Hotel, Montaguo-street, about eight last evening, fell from his suiky and was rendered unconscious. He was…

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Accident to the Governor

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 4

ON Sunday afternoon as the Governor, accompanied by a groom, was driving along the Sutton Forest road, the pony…

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The Fatal Accident at New Valley. Tingha

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 2

At the inquest held on the remains of Mrs Burke, who was killed at New Valley on Sunday last, a verdict of accidental death was returned. From the post-mortem examination…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 6

A MAN named Miller, a tea agent, was thrown from his sulky on Thursday evening about 6 o'clock in Montague-street The horse afterwards bolted, and the man was picked up unconscious. He remained…

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Accident at Races

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 30 January 1899 · page 2

AT Randwick races on Saturday afternoon while the Anniversary Handicap was being run. Loch Leigh, Tubal Cain II., The Captain, Shaughraun, Johansen, and All…

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Shocking Bathing Accident. Two Girls Drowned

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 2

Newcastle, Saturday Night. There was a shocking double drowning fatality this afternoon, at the ladies' bathing place…

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Drowned in a Tank

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 2

THE Sydney Coroner held a magisterial inquiry on Monday touching the death of James Samuel Fell, 11 years of age, who resided with his parents at George-street, Canterbury. The deceased…

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Accidents at Randwick

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 4

THERE were more accidents at Randwick Racecourse on Saturday, the concluding day of the Anniversary meeting of the Sydney Turf Club, than has been the case for a long time past. When…

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Disaster at Newcastle. Two Girls Drowned. Newcastle

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 2

A sad double-drowning accident occurred on New castle Beach late on Saturday-afternoon. when two young girls named Ida Jane Spencer Burraston, aged 14, and Rose Sutcliffe, 13, both…

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