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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 2

MR. RANALD McLACHLAN, of Clear Hills, met with a painful accident on Wednesday morning whilst engaged driving a horse in a driving gear of a chaffcutter. Owing to his lameness Mr. McLachlan…

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Wreck of the Loch Sloy. Twenty-seven Persons Drowned. Only Three Lives Saved. Sufferings of the Survivors. Starving and naked in the Bush

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 2

News reached Sydney on Monday morning of a terrible shipping disaster off the South Australian coast. The ship Loch Sloy, which was bound from…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 2

ON Wednesday Mr. Ranald McLa[?]hlan of clear Hills owing to lam[?]ness was riding on a seat on top of a driving-gear of a ch[?]ffcutter. The seat [?]lipped and in trying to…

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The Tweed Boating Fatality. MURRUMBURRAH

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 2

The adjourned inquiry into the recent drowning of the Salvationists, Captains M‘Grath and Blackburn, was concluded yesterday at Tumbul. gum before Mr. Joshua Bray, Coroner. The jury…

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Shocking Tragedy at Manly. a Sad Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 4

A fatal shooting accident, attended with sad surroundings, occurred at Bed Hill, Manly, between 2 and 3 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, when Constable Clibborn…

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Accidents

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 3

ON Tuesday evening, Mr. W. Rowan met with a very painful accident. He was engaged in a friendly straggle with a companion . when he slipped and dislocated the ankle, Mr. Rowan…

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Tram Accident in Oxford-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 4

AN accident, resulting in serious injury to two men, occurred in Oxford-street about 5.45 on Thursday evening. The 5.35 Crown-street tram had just left the College-street stopping place, when…

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Drowning Fatality at Manly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

THE Sydney Coroner on Monday held a magisterial inquiry at the Lloyd Hotel, George-street North, concerning the death of John Wilkins, aged 28, widower, and a volunteer in the National Guard…

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Burning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 4

Mr. H. O'BRIEN, coroner, held an enquiry yesterday at the Goulburn Hospital touching the death of a little girl named Mary Perkins, aged four years, who was accidentally burnt at Springfield on…

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Railway Collision in the United States. London, May 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 4

A disastrous railway collision has occurred at Exeter, in New Hampshire, United States. A train from Reading, Pennsylvania, ran into the Philadelphia express, which was stationary at Exeter…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 1.42 p.m. Volunteer Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 4

A VOLUNTEER, who had all his accoutrements on at the time, was drowned from the Manly boat on Saturday night. The Turf…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning Frederick Butts was driving Mr. Oxley's drag with two horses down Meehan St., when he ran over a young child about one year old. It appears the child was…

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Accidents

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

ON Saturday an old man named Laurence Ryan was driving a dray into a yard at Bookham, when the horse shied, and knocked Ryan down. He just rolled away in time to save…

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Fatal Accident Near Gundagai

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 18 May 1899 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, MONDAY.—A shocking accident happened yesterday afternoon on the Adelong road to a boy named Lowe, about 9 years old, who, in company with three…

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Railway Collision. Thirty-four Passengers Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 2

A disastrous railway collision has occurred at Exeter, in New Hampshire, United States. A train from R[?]ding, Pennsylvania, ran into the Philadelphia…

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Fatal Boating Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 1

"CAPTAIN" Blackburn, a female officer of the Salvation Army, from Sydney, and four other Salvationists, named "Captain" M'Grath (local female officer), Joseph…

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Shooting Fatality

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 22 May 1899 · page 2

ON Friday, Frank McWilliam, son of Mr. Andrew McWilliam, of Kangaroony station was found dead, shot through the body, the bullet having entered the…

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Shooting Fatality at Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 2

OUR Tarago correspondent reports a shooting fatality which occurred at that place on Saturday, the victim being Mr. Graham Gore, a well-known resident. Mr. H. O'Brien, accompanied by Dr…

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Accident to an Atlantic Liner. London, May 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 2

The International Navigation company's liner Paris, bound from Southampton to New York, via Cherbourg, struck the outer ridge of the Manacle Rocks, off Falmouth, during a haze last night…

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Accident at Old Nanima

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 25 May 1899 · page 2

ON Tuesday last a married roan named Lucas, while working in a mine at a depth of 60 feet, at Nanima, sustained serious injury through a bucket full of mullock…

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