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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1899 · page 2

AUGUST SMITH, nine, residing with his grandmother, Mrs. B[?], in Addison-street, was thrown from a horse yesterday morning and received a severe wound on his head, and…

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Fatal Coach Accident. Death of Mr. Timothy Poley P.m

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 March 1899 · page 2

Quite a gloom was cast over the town on Wednesday last (says the Burrangong Chronicle), when it was reported that our respected Police Magistrate, Mr. T. Foley…

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Terrible Accident on the Mississippi. Sixty Persons Drowned. London, Mar. 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 2

A terrible accident, causing much loss of life, occurred on a steamer on the Mississippi River yesterday. The boilers of the steamer exploded when nearing…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 2

A FATAL shooting accident occurred about two miles from Nathalia, Victoria, on Friday morning, by which a young man named H. Lonnie lost his life. At the inquest held later in the day the…

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Yachting Accident. Seven Lives Lost

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 6 April 1899 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A sad yachting fatality was brought to light last night by the discovery, near the entrance to the Werribee River, of the topmast of the…

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Fatal Accident to a Teamster

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1899 · page 4

LISMORE, Sunday.—A man named John M'Donald, while engaged driving a horse team conveying machinery along the Ballina-road, was applying the brake in descending a hill at…

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A Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1899 · page 2

ON Wednesday at the Balmain Cottage Hospital the City Coroner held a magisterial inquiry touching the death of a man named Charles Ferguson, who died in the Balmain Cottage Hospital on Tuesday…

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Terrible Accident on the Mississippi. Sixty Persons Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 April 1899 · page 3

A terrible accident, causing much loss of life occurred on a steamer on the Mississippi River. The boilers of the…

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Star of New Zealand in Collision

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 April 1899 · page 4

Another Channel disaster has been reported, this time from the coast of Sussex. She steamer Star of Now Zealand, 4840 tons, belonging to the Star of New…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 April 1899 · page 2

ON Friday last a son of Mr. M. Reid was assisting to shoe a horse when the animal lashed out with both hind feet striking the lad in the face. Fortunately Reid was just…

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Fatal Accident at Mount York

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 8 April 1899 · page 4

A SAD and fatal accident occurred on Saturday at Mount Victoria in the Mount York district, where Mr. Marcus Clarke and his family were staying at his country residence. On Saturday…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 April 1899 · page 2

CONDOBOLIN, Wednesday.—A fatal accident happened this morning, at 9.40, to Mr. H. W. Grey Innes. He was riding into town to business, and when on the outskirts his horse swerved, and throw…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 April 1899 · page 4

THE eldest son of Mr. T. J. Frost, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Bungonia, aged six years, whilst playing on the Bungonia bridge on Sunday…

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Fitzroy Falls Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 4

BOWRAL, Thursday.—The Mayor (Alderman A. Stephens) presided at the adjourned meeting of subscribers, held in the Town Hall last night, for the purpose of deciding in what manner Mr. Moses…

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Accident to the Paper Train

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 2

YESTERDAY as the paper train was crossing Breadalbane a carriage containing goods caught fire. All the goods and the carriage were consumed with the exception of one of two…

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Fatal Result of an Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 3

THE boy Percy Roberts, who was brought into Goulburn on Thursday last, suffering from a serious compound fracture of the right leg below the knee, the result of a fall from a horse, and whose leg was…

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A Young Lady Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 4

BURRUNDA, Monday.--On Friday morning a young lady named Pearl Berryman was missed from her parents residence at Beverley. Upon a…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 2

On Tuesday last Master Stephen Collier, was felling a tree and while in the act of doing so, he heard a creak and stepped back thinking it was the tree falling when a large…

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The Arncliffe Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 2

THE Deputy City Coroner, Dr. Todd, held an inquest on Friday at the Highbury Barn Hotel, Arncliffe, concerning the death of Mrs. W. Rand, who met with a fatal railway accident on the…

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Fatal Accident at Arncliffe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 4

MES RAND, wife of Mr. W. Rand, c f Arncliffe, and mother of Mr. W. A. Rand, solicitor, honorary secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union met with a fatal socident on Friday evening. She fall…

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