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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 2

AN accident happened on Wednesday evening to a little boy named Leslie Topham, six years of age, son of Mr. F. Topham, of Auburn-street. In the temporary absence of his parents the little fellow…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1900 · page 2

WHILE training with other cyclists on the Goulburn showground on Saturday afternoon W. Larcombe met with a painful accident. He collided with W. Baxter when they were…

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Serious Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 5 March 1900 · page 2

ON Friday evening, when riding home to Oak Range from Yass, Miss Myra Chambers met with a serious and painful accident by being thrown from her horse…

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Peculiar Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 5 March 1900 · page 4

A WOMAN named Murray, living in Sunderland put two filled water-bottles screwed up, the oven, for the purpose of heating them. She went out, leaving three young…

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The Injured Jockey

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2

R. A. Smith, the jockey who was injured on Saturday at the Goulburn races, remained unconscious for 24 hours, but he is now on the way to recovery…

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Fatal Accident at Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 2

Gundagai, Monday.—John Christopher Hazel, an elderly man, residing at Johnson's Hill, 10 miles from Gundagai, was killed on Saturday evening owing to the cart he was driving turning over and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 2

A LITTLE girl named Rene Topham, aged eighteen months, daughter of Mr. F. Topham, of Auburn-street, while playing in a room with her brother, on Tuesday fell and broke her right forearm. The…

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Drowned in a Bucket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

AN infant named Mabel Allen, aged 1 year and 5 months, residing with its parents in Sutherland. avenue, Paddington, was drowned in a bucket, partly filled with water, on Friday afternoon. The…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

SOFALA, Friday.—A child, the son of Mr. Thomas Mannell, was shot dead this afternoon. The mother was in the set if shooting a third when the cap snapped. She took the gun down to put another…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday—A shocking railway fatality occurred at Horsham at an early hour this morning, John McLachlan, a single man, about 55 years of age, being the victim. McLachlan arrived at…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 March 1900 · page 2

BATHURST, Wednesday.—Mrs. Hartigan, gate-keeper at Brewongle, was killed by an outgoing train for Sydney this morning. She was in the act of opening the railway gates when she was knocked…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 March 1900 · page 2

A serious accident happened to Mr. Emerton, a former licensee of the Oddfellows' Hotel, on the Braidwood Road, near Mr. Belcher's, on Wednesday afternoon. He was coming into town with a load…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 March 1900 · page 1

SHORTLY after 10 o'clock on Monday morning an accident of a serious character occurred to two men named respectively James Fleming and Thomas Barr. It appears the two men were engaged upon…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 5

ON Wednesday afternoon Mr. W. Emerton, wood-carter, met with a serious accident near Thorn's Bridge, Braidwood road. He was bringing a load of wood into town and on…

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Fatal Accident. Five Men Killed

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1900 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon six men were descending a shaft 1770 ft. deep at the mine of the Sydney Harbour Colliery Company, Balmain, when, as it is surmised, the bucket…

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Terrible Disaster at Balmain. Five Men Killed and One Injured. Upset in Descending a Shaft. Fall of 500 Feet. an Almost Miraculous Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1900 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon an accident occurred at the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company's works, Balmain, which resulted in the immediate death of five men and slight injury to another. The works…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. The Balmain Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1900 · page 4

The inquest on the Balmain miners was opened to-day and adjourned after the identification of the bodies. The jury are visiting the scene of the disaster…

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Accident to Colonel Price

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1900 · page 2

Colonel T. Price, commandant of the Victorian Mounted Infantry fell in a sluit (a dry ditch) and broke a rib. He has now recovered…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1900 · page 3

MR. JOHN CODY foreman of the carpenters at Kenmore Hospital, yesterday met with a painful accident, by which the second finger of the left hand was completely severed at…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1900 · page 2

IN using a planing machine on Tuesday Mr. John Cody, foreman of the carpenters at the Kenmore Hospital, sustained an accident by which the second finger of the left hand was severed at the second…

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