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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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A Shocking Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A shocking accident occurred at Portland this morning. An elderly man named George Sedgewick was attending to a planing and moulding machine driven by a gas engine, when…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon a son of Mr. Tyson of Bellmor-street , railway fireman, four years of age, was playing in front of his father's rosidence, and a horse belonging to a neighbor…

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A Sad Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 2

ABOUT 2 o’clock on Friday afternoon, Mr. Arthur Hall, while out wallaby shooting with his brother, at Spring Creek, accidentally shot himself in the head, which resulted…

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Shooting Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1899 · page 2

ROCKHAMPTON, Monday.—News has been received of a shooting fatality at the residence of Mrs. H. W. Hoyle, near Cawarral, last night. Mrs. Hoyle had been troubled lately by kangaroo rats, and her…

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Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 February 1899 · page 2

ON Tuesday morning a very painful accident happened to a son of Mr. F. Mannes, aged five years. The boy was on the delivery cart when the driver went into a residence…

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Terrible Railway Disaster. Twenty-one Killed and 100 Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 February 1899 · page 2

A shocking railway accident is reported from Belgium. The express from Mons to Brussels dashed into a train at Forest Station…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 February 1899 · page 2

By a fall of are in block 12 mine, Broken Hill, a miner was buried alive and two others had a narrow escape…

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A Peculiar Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1899 · page 4

ON Saturday morning a man whose name from documents in his possession was presumed to be John Clifford, aged 45, was found by a man named Kane, lying on the ground near a galvanised-iron…

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Accident at Gundagai

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 February 1899 · page 2

Gundagai Saturday.-- A coach accident happened this evening to Collier's coach between Kimo and Gundagai. The coach overturned through the horses bolting. A passenger…

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Serious Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1899 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Monday.—A serious coach accident happened on Saturday. Whilst Mr. John Collier, coach proprietor, was driving three passengers—Messrs. Isase Mobbs, John Hopper, and John…

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Fatal Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1899 · page 4

ABOUT 8.45 on Saturday morning a fatal accident occurred in front of the Grand Hotel, Sydney, nearly opposite the railway station. A young man who was walking in the roadway turned round to look…

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Serious Coach Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Monday.—A serious coach accident happened on Saturday. Whilst Mr. John Collier, coach proprietor, was driving three passengers—Messrs. Isaac…

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Found Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 2

ON Thursday evening information was brought to Terago police-station that a man was supposed to-have been drowned in the Mulwarree at Invoralochy. Constable Pocock…

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Serious Coach Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 2

BETWEEN 4 and 5 p.m. on Saturday last a somewhat serious coach accident happened on the back road between Reno and Gundagai. Mr. John Collier plys a…

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Found Drowned at Inveralochy

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

THE body of a man, whose name at first was unknown and afterwards identified as Adrian Edward Davis, was brought into Goulburn on Thursday afternoon. The man had been found drowned in…

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A Lad Apparently Drowned Restored

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

ON Friday evening of last week, a boy named Dick, aged 13 years, was with some other boys about the same age bathing in a waterhole near the Flemington…

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Mining Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

ABOUT a fortnight ago, James Russell, a resident of North Yass, employed as a miner at the Golden King claim, Blakney Creek, accidentally fell down a shaft a…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 4

THE railway authorities have received particulars of au accident which happened on the Piston line about midday on Sunday. It appears that…

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Boiler Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 3

YESTERDAY at Parkes a tubular boiler used at the Phœnix mine burst a terrific report. Thomas Mackey the driver in charge had two ribs broken and was severely scalded, and…

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Another Boiler Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 2

PARKES, Tuesday.—At a quarter to 2 this afternoon the townspeople were startled by a terrific report, caused by the bursting of a tubular boiler, used for winding and…

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