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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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The Railway Accident to the New Zealanders

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 April 1902 · page 3

Derails of the railway disaster at Machavie, where l4 New Zealanders were killed, have been received. Owing to a mistake the troop train with the New…

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Serious Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 April 1902 · page 2

ON Wednesday, Mr. James Tunney of Spring Park, Monteagle, met with a most; serious accident. Whilst riding over his property his horse pnt hoi foot in a rabbit barrow and…

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A Remarkable Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 April 1902 · page 2

Wellington, Monday.—A remarkable fatality occured at Montefiores on Saturday afternoon. A lad named Walter Ernest Burchall, 15 years old, was sent to Bell River for the purpose of outring…

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Railway Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 April 1902 · page 2

A RAILWAY accident occurred at Hackney Downs station on Friday. The axle of an engine broke. The train stopped…

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News by Cable Seven Persons Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 3

The new steamshilp Ditkers, built for the Adelaide Steamship Company, during her trial trip on the Tyne was considerably damaged through colliding with the…

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The Formidable Fatality. London, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 5

The fatality which occurred on H M S. Formidable off Maddalona, Sardinia, during boat practice was due to a derrick slipping. Lieut. Arthur Pringle (gunnery officer), a petty officer, and a sea…

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Serious Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 2

On Friday night of last week an accident happened to some young people who were on their way out from town to…

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Accident on the Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 2

On Friday evening during shunting operations at the Forest siding, the porter who was in charge of the points made a mistake and caused the tender of the engine of the…

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Accident on the Crookwell Line

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 May 1902 · page 2

OWING to the disarrangement of the points at the Forest platform on-Friday afternoon the tender of the engine ran off the rails. Word was sent to Goulburn for assistance,…

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The Formidable Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 6 May 1902 · page 4

THE fatality which occurred at H.M.S. Formidable off Madalena, Sardinia, during boat practice was due to [?]derrick slip…

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Tram Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 May 1902 · page 4

Shortly before 2 o'clock on Saturday a child named Harry Hubert Coulson, aged 8½ years, who resided with his father at Alfred-street, North Botany was attempting to cross Botany-road,…

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The Racecourse Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 May 1902 · page 2

WE are pleased to be able to announce that the jockey who were injured in the fall which occurred during the Welter Handicap on the second day of the annual meeting of…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. Maritime Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 May 1902 · page 2

A collision occurred early this morning off Botany heads between the steamer Dunmore and the Kelloe. The latter sank in a quarter of an hour. No lives were lost…

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Accident to an Airship. London, May 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 May 1902 · page 2

M. Severo, the rival of M. Santos Dumont, the Brazillian inventor of an air-ship, with his assistant made an experiment with an air-ship of his invention at Paris this morning. When over the city an…

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Collision Off the Coast

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 May 1902 · page 3

[?]o the early hours of yesterday two steamers, the Dunmore and the Kelloe, came into collision off Little Bay, and the Kelloo foundered. Both vessels were regularly…

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The Welter Handicap Accident. Adjourned Inquiry

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 May 1902 · page 3

The adjourned inquiry into the cause of the accident in the Welter Handicap at the recent annual race meeting in connection with the Burrangong Turf Club, in which…

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The Accident at the Races

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 May 1902 · page 2

ON Friday evening last the committee of the Burrangong Turf Club resumed the inquiry into cause of the accident in the Welter Handicap on the second day of the annual races, in which four of…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. the Recent Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 May 1902 · page 4

The Dunmore, which was beached after the collision off Botany Heads, is to be refloated. The Kelloe was insured for £5750 in several offices…

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Aerial Navigation. a Fearful Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 15 May 1902 · page 2

London, Monday Afternoon—In connection with the tragic death of M. Dumont’s rival, M. Severe, in Paris this morning, it transpires that the airship fell a distance…

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Accident to an Airship. London, May 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 May 1902 · page 4

Further particulers have now been received of the accident to Senhor Severe's airship this morning in Paris. An explesion occurred on the airship in mid-sir, wrecking it. The engineer and Senbor…

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