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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Terrible Boiler Explosion. a Boy Killed. Seven Persons Injured. Alburv, Monday Afternoon

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 2

Shortly before 9 o’clock this morning a boiler at Hayes Bro her’s Flour Mill, situated in the centre of the most populated portion of the town exploded with terrible results The disaster,…

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Fatal Coach Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 2

NEWS was received at Port Macquarie on Tuesday morning that an accident had occurred to the coach due there with the Sydney mails at half-past 6. A special…

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A Fatal Coach Accident.—Two Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 4

PORT MACQUARIE, Tuesday.—An accident occurred 17 miles from here early this morning by which two lives were lost. The Sydney mailcoach, which arrives here about half-past 6 in the morning, and…

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Boating Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

A BOATING fatality occurred in Gladstone harbor (Q.), on Sunday evening. Mr. Curtis, harbormaster, and Messrs. John Braddock and Brooke Smith…

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Fatal Coach Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

LAURIETOWN, Tuesday.--About three o'clock this morning, as the mail coach from Taree was about five miles from Kew proceeding to Port…

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A Fatal Coach Accident. the Driver and a Passenger Killed

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

Port Macquarie, Tuesday. An accident occurred 17 miles from here early this morning by which two lives were lost. The Sydney mailcoach, which arrives…

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Twenty Children Drowned. London, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 4

Twenty children have been drowned while skating at Warpuhnen, in Prussia, the ice having suddenly given way…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2

OK Wednesday last, Dr. Zimple and his groom Mr. Niel Cameron met with an accident attended with very painful results. The Doctor was returning from a…

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Two Remarkable Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 4

INVERELL, Thursday.—On Tuesday a man named Walter Sinclair met with two painful and remarkable accidents at Graman near Inverell. Sinclair was employed in clearing a paddock, and during a…

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A Sad Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 7 February 1899 · page 4

AT Danvers, New York, a boy of 18, playfully pointed a revolver at his brother-in-law, Elmer Marshall. The revolver…

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Fatal Accident at Redfern

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1899 · page 2

A FATAL accident occurred at 9 o'clock on Monday morning at the tramway siding near the Mortuary platform at the Redfern railway station. A tramway labourer named James Joseph Reddan, aged…

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Accident at the Racecourse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

AN accident occurred at the racecourse on Thursday morning to a lad named William Wilkie, son of Mr. T. A. Wilkie. He was riding Waverley in a trial with three other horses and in rounding the…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 February 1899 · page 3

ON Friday last n little girl named Grace Brown, aged seven, was accidentally knocked down at North Goulburn public-school and her left forearm broken. The child was taken…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1899 · page 4

A boy named Alexander Hackett, Auburn-st., and aged nine years, met with an accident on Sunday. He fell from a horse he was riding in Mr. Wiseman's yard and broke two of the bones of his left wrist.—…

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Fatal Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 February 1899 · page 2

WORD was brought into town on Tuesday that a young man named Richard Close, residing along the Cowra road, had been killed from a horse. From the meagre…

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A Sensational Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 4

Young, Monday.—A magisterial inquiry was held at the court-house to-day by tile Coroner, Mr. Foley, concerning the death of a man named Neil Cameron, who was a…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 4

MR. W. BARKER, son of Mr. T. Barker, of Yarra, in the employ of Mr. Andrew Chisholm, of Cardross, met with a severe occident a few days ago through his horse falling with him. He was very…

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A Sensational Buggy Accident. a Groom Killed. a Doctor Seriously Injured. Young

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 February 1899 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry was held at the court-house to-day, by the coroner, Mr. Foley, concerning the death of a man named Neil Cameron, who was a groom in the employ of…

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Fatal Buggy Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 February 1899 · page 4

AS Dr. Zimpel was being driven on Saturday by his groom, Neil Cameron, about a mile from Forbes, the mare bolted,…

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Sad Shooting Accident at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 2

YASS, Friday.—A sad accident happened this afternoon on the Yass River about seven miles from Yass. A young man named Arthur Hall, a son of Mr. William Hall, farmer, started out about…

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