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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 2

A good deal of excitement was caused in Auburn-street at 3 o'clock this afternoon. A horse attached to a cart bolted out of Mr. O. H. Furner's auction yards, and almost immediately after a horse in Mr…

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Collision Near Capetown

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 3

A collision has occurred near Capetown between the transport Winkfield and the Onion and Castle liner Mexican. The Winkfield rammed the Mexican while a…

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Terrible Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 April 1900 · page 2

EARLY on Saturday a constable named Frank Evans (28) met with a fearful death. HE was examining some ice-cutting circular saws in operation at the Fresh Food and Ice…

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A Terrible Fatality. a Policeman Cut in Two

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

One of the most horrible accidents on record occurred on Saturday morning, resulting in the death of a police probationer, Frank Evans, 27, a single man…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

A LAD named Ernest Hearn was thrown from his mount at the Grabhen Gullen races on Saturday, receiving serious injuries. He was riding Mr…

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Peculiar Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

ON Friday last a most peculiar and painful accident happened to Mr. Jeremiah Barber, of Yass. Mr. Barber was fencing at Taemas, and was in the act of…

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Sketing Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

A LAD named John Donnett, age 17, employed by Mr. H. Downes, news agent, met with an accident on Monday afternoon. While skating in Bartlett's Rink ho fell heavily and broke both bones…

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The Accident to Mr. G. Judd

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

The painful accident which befel Mr G. Judd, an employe of the Goulburn Engineering Works, has resulted, as was feared from the first, in the loss of one of his eyes. While chipping some steel several…

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Cut to Pieces by a Saw. an Awful Fatality

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

A FEARFUL accident occurred about 6 o’clock on Saturday morning at the premises of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Limited, Darting Harbor, the exact spot being in the ice cutting and delivery…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

MR. G. JUDD. who recently met with an accident at the Goulburn foundry and had to go to Sydney for special treatment, has had to have the injured eye removed…

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A Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 2

A young man named Ethelbert Stewart, 19 years of ago, employed by the Railway Department as a gatekeeper at Broadincadow, near Newcastle, and lately residing at Merewether, was killed on the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 2

Mr. George Snow, an employe at Mr. O. Gillespte's boot factory, met with a painful accident about 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening. Whilst operating one of the pressing machines his left thumb was…

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A Railway Fatality

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

A young man named Ethelbert Stewart, 19 years of age, employed by the Railway Department as gatekeeper at Broadmeadow, and lately residing at…

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Shocking Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 4

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred last week at Darling Harbour. A constable named Frank Evans, who recently arrived from South…

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Serious Railway Accident. Twenty-one Trucks Derailed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 2

ADVICES were received by the Railway Commissioners on Friday afternoon to the effect that a goods train had me, with an accident between Cole Vale and Mittagong a largo number of trucks being derailed…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 4

FOURTEEN trucks of a goods train were derailed at C[?] Vale, near Mittagong yesterday. A breakdown train with app[?]ces was sent from Goulburn, and it was believed that the passengers both by the…

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Railway Accident. Goods Train Disabled

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 April 1900 · page 2

THE return fast goods train from Albury to Sydney met with a serious accident on Friday afternoon near Brasmar platform, between Colo Vale and Mittagong, seventy-four miles…

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Burning Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 April 1900 · page 3

A LITTLE girl, three years old, named Heaslip. residing with her parents in Francis-street, Garfield, was severely burnt on the leg and thigh this morning through her night-dress…

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Great Fire at Ottawa. the Origin Accidental. Swept Along by a Hurricane. Immense Area in Ruins. a Loss of £1,500,000. Fifteen Thousand People Homeless. London, April 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 1

LATER reports of the disastrous fire at Hull and Ottawa, in Canada, show that the conflagration had an accidental origin and was not caused by Fenians, as at first stated…

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The Railway Accident Near Mittagong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 4

Upon inquiry on Saturday at the office of the Railway Commissioners with regard to the derailment of a goods train between Cole Vale and Mittagong on Friday, it was…

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