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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1900

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Accident at Paris Exhibition

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1900 · page 4

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the Paris Exhibition on Sunday. An unfinished bridge over a street intersecting the exhibition collapsed and…

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Fatality at Redfern

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 1

AN accident attended with fatal results occurred on Monday about 2.30 p.m. at Redfern to a carter named Kearin Joseph Connors. It appears that he was at the hour mentioned driving a traction…

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Serious Accident at Harden

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 2

WHILE driving home in a sulky from a picnic on Saturday, two ladies, a youth and a child in arms, met with a serious accident. The horse took fright at some…

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Fatal Accident at Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.—On Sunday last Mrs. C. Foster was driving in a sulky, accompanied by her two daughters, when the horse shied and turned the vehicle over an embankment. Mrs. Foster was…

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Fatal Driving Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 4

Murrumburrah, Tuesday.—A very sad accident occurred here on Saturday evening. Mrs. John Bishop. with her child, accompanied by Mrs. James Bourke, was returning home…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening Mrs. Gandy, wife of Constable Gandy, lookupkeeper, met with a painful accident. She was hanging curtains, when the steps she was using tumbled over…

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Railway Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

Lismore, Wednesday. -- A special train to-day took out the coroner to Byron Bay, so that be might hold an inquiry into the cause of the death of Guard…

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Fatal Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

LAST Monday morning Mr T A. Barnes, J. P. and Coroner for the district of Murrumburrah, held a magisterial inquiry at the residence of Mr Thomas Cullen (grandfather…

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Accident to Private Keeble. May 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 4

Private Keeble, of the Victorian Infantry, fell at Hout-nek and broke his arm…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 4

Mrs. Gandy, wife of Constable Gandy, met with a serious accident on Wednesday last. She was standing on some steps putting up a pair of curtains when the steps gave way…

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Fatal Accident at Kingsdale

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 2

ON Tuesday last a man named John Johnson, working at McShane's quarry at Kingsdale, met with an accident which terminated fatally on Saturday. Between two and three…

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Serious Blasting Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 2

LONDON May 4.-- A serious explosion took place during the blasting operations in a mine at Schofield, in the State of Utah (U.S.A.). 200 persons…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 2

WHILST unloading wood at the R. C. Presbetry, Crookwell, last evening, Mr. J. J. Watman met with a painful accident. It appears he was in the…

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Fatal Quarry Accident at Kingsdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon the Coroner (Mr. Harold O'Brien) initiated a magisterial inquiry at the hospital touching the death of a quarryman named John Johnson. The inquiry was concluded…

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Football Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 May 1900 · page 2

THE football season has commenced, and already two accidents have to be reported. A day or two ago George Barnes, in the employ of Messrs. Barnes Brothers. tobacconists and hairdressers,…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 2

Fireman Forward fell off the engine of the express this morning while taking in water at Yass River. No bones were broken, but he sustained severe bruises to the arm and…

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Railway Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 May 1900 · page 3

A goods train collided in a railway" tunnel in Philadelphia with a result that four oil cars exploded. The engine-driver and fireman and four tramps in the train were killed, and…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 May 1900 · page 2

FIREMAN FORWARD, who was on Saturday's express from Melbourne, met with a painful accident at Yass river. He was preparing to water the engine, when the chain which works…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 14 May 1900 · page 2

ON Friday last a terrible burning accident occurred at the gatekeeper’s residence on the Burrowa Road near Bowing. The victims were the two little children of Mrs…

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Tramway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 4

A man named James Irvine, aged 34, was fatally injured on Saturday night through being knocked down and run over by an electric tram. It appears that at about 10…

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