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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 2

A BOY named Archie Campbell, about tea years of age, residing with his parents at South Goulburn, broke his left leg while playing marbles yesterday. The boy has a…

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A Bad Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 2

On Saturday last an extraordinary mishap simply befel a young man, William Jeff, employed by Mr. George Mills as a teamster. It seems he was…

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Serious Accident at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 4

Yass, Monday.—A serious accident happened to a young man named Jeff, employed by Mr. George Mills, contractor, last Saturday. He was driving a waggon down the steep cutting of Taemas Hill…

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The Pea Rifle Again. Accident at Jeir

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 March 1903 · page 2

On Wednesday morning last two young men were travelling along the road near, the Jeir station, and, having camped for a while in the shade, decided…

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Girl Drowned at Manly

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 March 1903 · page 2

WHILE bathing in the surf at Manly at sir a.m. on Saturday, Eva MI. Jackson (17), a resident, got in a hole from which she was rescued in an unconscious condition. Efforts…

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Bathing Fatality at Manly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 4

On Saturday, at about 5.55 a.m. a girl named Eda Mosman Jackson, aged 17, lately residing with her parents, John Henry and Emily Eda Jackson, at the Ocean Beach Tearooms, was…

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Buggy Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

ON Friday morning last about 8 o'clock Master Tom Lvons (son of Mr. P. Lvons, of Lyon's Vale), was driving to early Mass, when one of the bolts which holds…

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Drowned In the Surf at Manly. Young Lady Loses Her Life

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 4

THE dangers of the treacherous undertow, which me[?]ce those who participate in the pleasures of surf-bathing at Manly and at other ocean beaches, were in evidence early on Saturday…

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Girl Drowned

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 2

FORBES, Wednesday.--While watering cattle at the L[?]chlan River yesterday a girl, aged 11, daughter of Mr. Harkett, selector, fell into the river…

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Accident to Robl

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 4

T. Robl, the champion German pace follower, who left Melbourne last week for Germany aboard the “Friedrich der Grosse ”met with a…

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Fatal Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

ON Wednesday last a fatal accident happened to Mr James Edgeworth, a miner and shareholder in the Waratah reef mine on Cunningham Creek. It…

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Burning Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

WE regret to say that Miss Violet Johnston, third daughter of the respected Host of the Railway Hotel, met with a rather severe burning…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 March 1903 · page 2

ON Thursday night a stock train from Yass through Cowra to Bourke pulled up at Woodstock siding, and was about to restart when a coupling broke, detaching 18 trucks…

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Shocking Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1903 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatality, resulting in the death of a man named Thomas Leigh, occurred at Andrews and Co.'s bedding factory, Surry Hills, yesterday. The unfortunate man was…

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Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 March 1903 · page 4

Mr. Charles Whittington, employed at Furner Bros.', Crookwell, fell through a manhole of an old mill at the rear of the shop on Tuesday night, and sustained a compound fracture of the thigh. He…

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Burning Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 March 1903 · page 4

Miss Violet Johnston, daughter of Mr. Johnson of tho Railway Hotel, M[?]r[?]amburrab, bad a very narrow escape from being burned to death…

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Accident at the Cycling Carnival. Champions Fall in the Last Race

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 2

AT the Sydney cycling carnival on Wednesday night, the Oxford Plate, a special first-class half-mile handicap, put on the programme for the purpose of allowing the public to see Major…

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Accident to the Mayor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 2

The Mayor (Alderman Wilkie) was unfortunate enough to meet with an accident this morning. In company with a relative, Mrs. Joseph Jordan, he had driven to the…

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Accident to Dr. McMASTER

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1903 · page 2

WHILE attending a military inspection in Goulburn on Saturday afternoon Dr. Mc Master, Captain of the army Medical Corps attached to G Company, met with a painful…

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Accident to the Mayor

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1903 · page 2

ABOUT seven a.m. on Saturday as the Mayor and Mrs. Jordan were returning in a sulky from the railway station the axie broke when in front of Auburn-terrace. The Occupants…

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