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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Terrible Fire in New York.—fourteen Lives Lost—fifty Persons Injured and Sixty Reported Missing. London, Mar. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 4

During the St. Patrick's Day procession in New York yesterday afternoon the Hotel Windsor, one of the leading hotels in the city, was destroyed by fire…

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Accident at Binalong

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon a young man named William O'Brien, in the employ of Mr. Dwyer, butcher, was galloping after some horses when the animal he was riding fell over, O'Brien felling…

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Fatal Accident at Darlinghurst.—A Goulburn Workman Killed

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

A MAN named Edward Hughes was killed at about 3 p m. on Monday through the falling of an embankment at the Darlinghurst Police Station. A new building is in course of erection there, and…

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Shocking Railway Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 4

Two shocking railway accidents occurred in Victoria on Saturday. James M'Carthy, the guard of a train returning from Ballarat with holiday makers who had been attending the Victorian Railway…

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Tram Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 3

While shunting at Yass this morning Corductor Gamble of the Yass tramway fell underneath the carriages, which passed over his arm and so severely crushed it that the…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 3

ON Monday afternoon Edward Hughes, forty-five, wan working some nine or ten feet below the surface in ex[?]vations for a now building at Darlinghurst police station, when the…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 3

POWRAL, Tuesday.— A picnic party of Bowral and Burradoo residents left Bowral for Fitzrey Falls yesterday. The Rev. G. A. Garden, Pr[?]byterian minister, recently appointed to…

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Accident to the Police Magistrate

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 3

JUST as we were going to press we learned that Mr. T. Foley, our popular and respected Police Magistrate had arrived at Young from Grenfell by coach with a broken leg. From inquiries we…

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The Marrickvillc Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 3

ON Tuesday the Sydney corner held an inquest concerning the death of William Gordon, aged 35, residing at Miller-street, North Sydney, who was on the previous…

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Serious Tram Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning an accident happened to tram guard Frank Gamble, which may yet necessitate the amputation of the unfortunate fellow’s left arm. It appears…

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Supposed Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 2

On Tuesday evening as the 6.27 p.m. Fernhill to Sydney train was travelling over the Belmore line the guard noticed a man lying on the permanent way. The train was brought to a standstill, and…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 2

A BOY named Edward Henry Browne, residing with his mother, a widow, at Brown-street, St. Peters, was ran over by the 6 20 train from Sydney to Be more on Wednesday evening and killed. He…

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Accident to Madam Melba. London, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 2

Madame Melba met with a painful accident in San Francisco yesterday. While she was seated in a drawing-room, a bronze statue fell from its pedestal and struck her on the head. Madame…

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Serious Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 2

A very serious accident happened to a young man named Frank Gambell, guard on the Yass tram. Gambell was on duty all night, and on Wednesday morning went to couple…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred at Wallsend shortly after 1 o'clock on Thursday, whereby a young man. 19 years of age, named Edward Hughes, was killed by the sudden explosion of a rifle. It appears deceased…

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Strange Drowning Fatality

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

Dubbo, Monday.—Wallace Allen, aged 65 years, a retired grazier, living in Mitchell-street, was accidentally drowned at his home late on Saturday night. He was very infirm and semi-paralysed,…

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Drowning Case from a Manly Boat

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

A FATALITY took place from on board the Manly steamer Narrabeen on Saturday morning. James Ryan, married, the licensee of the United Australia Hotel, Regent-street, with a boarder named M'Gee,…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 March 1899 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

ON Friday last Mrs. Thomas Walsh, senr., of North Yass, was in the act of lifting a sofa, when her foot caught in the carpet causing her to fall. On attempting to get up it was…

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Fatal Accident. Death of a Police Magistrate. Young

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 March 1899 · page 2

Mr. Foley, P.M., who sustained a fracture of the leg through been thrown from the Grenfell coach this morning, was attended by three medical men. It was found necessary…

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