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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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Accident to Barnes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1902 · page 4

The accident to Barnes, the leading bowler of the English team, turns out to be much more serious than was at first thought. On Saurday afternoon, shortly after he…

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Drowning Fatality at Manly. Two Lives Lost. Gallant Attempt at Rescue

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 2

It is the custom for people staying at Manly to bathe on the ocean beach in the mornings. It was here that a sad double drowning fatality occurred on…

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Disaster in Bohemia. a Mine Flooded. Forty Men Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 1

A rush of water occurred in the Jupiter Mine at Bruex, Bohemia. Seventy miners escaped, but in the lower workings 40 others were imprisoned and were…

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Disastrous Explosion. Sixty Persons Killed. One Hundred Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 1

Ah explosion, resulting in a heavy loss of life, occurred in a spinning factory at Mameass, in the Province of Catalonia, North-east Spain…

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A Cricketing Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 January 1902 · page 3

ON Wednesday last, our local prominent cricketer, Mr. James Rintoul, met with a very painful accident during the progress of the match whichYoung played against…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 January 1902 · page 3

A YOUNG man named Alexander Gillespie, only surviving son of Mr. Robert Gillespie, a plumber employed on the railway, was accidentally drowned in the Wollondilly…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1902 · page 2

THE coroner held an inquiry at the court-house at noon to-day touching the death of a young man named Alexander Gillespie, who was drowned on Monday afternoon while bathing in the Wollondilly…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1902 · page 4

Junee, Saturday.—News reached Junee to-night that an accident occurred to a goods train at 7 o'clock this evening between Matong and Grong Grong, and that the…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Alexander Gillespie only surviving son of Mr. Robert Gillespie, a plumber employed on the railway, was accidentally drowned in the Wollondilly river…

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Serious Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 2

IT is with great regret that we are called upon to recant that Mr. A. Aston, the genial and popular owner of Arramagong, met with a very serious accident on Friday morning last, near Bimbi. He…

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Accident near Binda

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 4

Crookwell, Monday.—A sulky accident occurred near Binda on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Writer and child were on their way to a church picnic, when one of the reins…

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Drowning and Suffocation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 February 1902 · page 1

THE treatment of drowning and suffocation from gas, &c., is the same. First, restore breathing; second, promote warmth and circulation. At once place the patient on his back in a lying…

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Street Accident. Goulburn

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 2

AN extraordinary street accident occurred today. A horse attached to a vehicle bolted across Auhurn street and went into the open door of Messrs…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 2

A serious accident happened this afternoon to Mr. Ivor Malcolm, mason, whilst engaged in pulling down a brick building near Mr. Stacey's shop. He was at work…

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Fatal Accident to a Braidwood Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 4

A fatal accident happened in a simple manner at the corner of Liverpool and Chapman streets, Sydney, on Sunday afternoon, when a woman named Letitia Wilson, aged 48, fell and fractured her…

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Serious Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1902 · page 2

ON Saturday last, Mr. Steve Nash met with a very serious accident whilst engaged at his duties at the mill of Messrs, Chapman, Taylor and Coy[?]by whom he is employed. Mr. Nash was working at…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 2

This morning at about ten o'clock Mr. William Arlington, head fuelman, employed on the coal stage in the railway yards, met with an accident. The gauge glass of an engine…

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Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 4

Crookwell, Tuesday.—A young man named Glennan has narrowly escaped being shot with a Winchester rifle. His brother was handling the weapon, which accidentally went off, and the bullet…

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Fatal Accident in Auburn Street. a Workman Buried Beneath a Wall

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1902 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon a fatal accident happened in Auburn-street at an old brick building, which is being demolished for Mr. George Stacey. The victim of the accident…

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Armoured Trains in Collision. Five Soldiers Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 February 1902 · page 3

A co[?]ion between two armoured trains took place near Burgher[?]dorp, in the north of Cape Colony. Five soldiers were killed and five others were…

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