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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Gun Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 4

Unfortunately we had no less than two gun accidents in the district within a week, writes the Murrumbateman correspondent of Yass Tribune. Mr. Percy Johnston of…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 2

Mr John Speer, of Springfield, met with a serious accident near the Olympic Ground on Tuesday afternoon. The horse he was driving in a dray took fright at a load of wood and bolting off the…

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Fatal Accident with a Gun

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 4

Lithgow, Monday:—A shooting accident occurred near Bartley on Saturday evening, resulting in the death of a child of five years named Lachlan Benjamin Morris. The little one was playing with…

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Shocking Fatal Railway Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 3

A shocking fatal accident occurred to a Mrs. O'Shannessy shortly before noon on Thursday, on the railway line at [?]angle ending in her death. She…

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Bungendore. Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 5

AN inquest was held in the Court-house on Thursday before Mr. John Gale, J.P., Coroner, touching the death of Mr. B. Cullen. The body wee viewed at the residence of deceased…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

Mr. John Leecount, cabmae, met with a rather serious accident on Friday night through being thrown from his cab. He was brought to Dr Handcock, suffering from a number of nasty scalp…

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Terrible Fatality at Broken Hill

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 4

Mining Fatality.—An accident occurred on Friday in the south Mine, Broken Hill. Six men were killed and two other injured. The fatality was caused by a…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

MR. S. PARRY of Ferndale, near Marulan had the misfortune to have his leg broken in Goulburn on Saturday night as the result of a fall. It is the same limb that was fractured…

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Particulars of the Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

London, Thursday.—Full particulars are published this morning relating to the accident which yesterday befell the America Cup challenger Shamrock II.,…

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Accident to Mr. S. Parry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 4

Mr. S. Parry, who it will be remembered was seriously hurt in the in an engagement in South Africa, had the same leg accidentally broken on Saturday evening last by a fall. Mr. Parry is now…

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Trams in Collision

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 4

ON Monday a tram was travelling from Leichhardt to the city, and when approaching the junction at Newtown-road in came into collision with a tram going from…

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Awful Accident at Broken Hill. Six Miners Killed.two Injured. Broken Hill

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 4

News has just been received of an awful accident at the South Mine. The accident was caused through a fail of earth below the 400ft. level, the collapse being very big…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, whilst a load of earth was being drawn from the excavations under Messrs. Rogers and Co.'s, new premises two horses attached to a dray fell into…

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Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon, while Mr. A. C. Betts (chairman of the Goulburn land board) and another gentleman were driving down Wallace-street, Braidwood, in a buggy, the…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 2

Shortly after 10 o'clock on Tuesday night a shocking accident occurred at Meadowbank station, near Ryde, by which Mr. John C. Crackenthorpe the manager of the local…

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Accident to Horses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 4

No little stir was caused at the corner of Auburn and Montague streets on Tuesday afternoon through a couple of Mr. Slatyer's horses falling over into a deep hole when coming up with a load out of…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 4

[?] Ryde branch of the Bank of New South Wales, and which was reported in our telegrams last issue, was of a dreadful nature…

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Terrible Mining Fatality. Six Men Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred on Friday in the south Mine, Broken Hill. Six men were killed and two others injured. The fatality was caused by a fall of earth…

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Yachting Accident. London, May 23

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 4

FURTHER details are published of the accident to the yacht Shamrock II. in the Solent yesterday. The King, Sir Thomas Lipton, Mr. George Lennox…

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Meadow Bank Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 5

An inquest was held at Brown's Railway Hotel, on Thursday, on the remains of John C. Crackenthorp, who was killed by a passing train at Meadow Bank on the night of the 28th inst: The driver of…

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