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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Peculiar Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 2

A PECULIAR shooting accident happened at Sorrento (Vie.) yesterday morning. A young man named John Main, who was on a holiday visit, nod had spent most of his time…

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Dreadful Buggy Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 2

A DISASTROUS buggy accident is reported from Berridale, near Cooma, in which a Mrs. Gilchrist was killed, and two other persons were injured. It appears that a Mr…

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Collision at Sea. Melbourne

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 6

On Friday morning, in Bass Straits, collision took place between the passenger steamer Coogee and the Italian four-masted ship Fortunato…

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Wreck off the Barque Francois copp[?]. Eleven of the Crew Drowned. Terrible Sufferings of the Survivors. Auckland

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 2

Particulars were received from San Francisco by the R.M.S. Ventura of the wreck of the French barque Francois-Coppee,bound from Newcastle for San Francisco, with a cargo of coal. The…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 2

The Moss Vale Sorutineer says:—A very serious accident befel Mr. E. R. Spriggs, of Sydney, the younger brother of Mrs. Williams, of Moss Vale, in the afternoon of Boxing Day. The young…

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Cyclist Accidentally Shot

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 4

Melbourne, Thursday.—A peculiar shooting accident happened at Sorrento this morning. A young man named John Main, who was on a holiday visit, and had spent most of his…

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Dreadful Buggy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 3

Cooma, Thursday.—A disastrous buggy accident is reported from Berriedale, in which a Mrs. Gilchrist was killed, and two other persons were injured. It appears that…

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Dreadful Buggy Accident

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

COOMA, Thursday.—A disastrous baggy, accident is reported from Berriedale. A family named Gilehrist cousisting of father and mother and three children,…

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Fatal Accident With a Pearifle

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

MR. Frederick Lewis, manager of the Ferndale Estate for Mr G. R. Jackson, of Mahouga, was handling a pea-rifle this morning, and by some means it…

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Fearful Boiler Accident. Great Loss of Life. (By wire.) Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 2

A fearful marine disaster has just been reported here. A boiler on the war ship Wallaroo, one of the cruisers on the Australian station, burst this…

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Terrible Railway Accident. London, Jan. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

A terrible railway disaster is reported from the United State. A passenger train, proceeding at the rate of 30 miles an hour, came in collision with a cattle train 14 miles to the westward of Topeka,…

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Tram Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 2

FOUR persons who were sitting on the side of a tram bound from Leichhardt to Circular Quay were injured by a collision with a runaway horse at the Haymarket about…

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Drowning and Suffocation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 3

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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Terrible Burning Fatality.—Three Boys the Victims

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 4

Kalgoorlie, Saturday.—A sad burning fatality, involving the death of three children, occurred at Trafalgar at a late hour last night. It appears that shortly after 11 o'clock Frederick Lee, who…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 January 1904 · page 2

WHAT might have resulted in a serious accident, occurred in the railway cutting at Whinstone Hill on Saturday afternoon last. Mr. Egan, fettl[?]r on the…

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The Accident on H.M.S. Wallaroo

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

WHEN the warship Wallaroo entered Sydney heads on Friday morning ,crowds of people gathered along the foreshores anxiously awaiting the latest news in regard to the disaster. As soon…

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Buggy Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

MRS. WRITER, wife of Mr. George Writer, of Julong, Crookwell River, had the misfortune to meet with a painful accident on Sunday last. It…

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Men Injured by Dynamite

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 2

Carcoar, Thursday—At the Junction Reefs mine this morning a charge of dynamite exploded, injuring four men. It appears that the charge was fired, but failed to explode. After waiting a time…

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Three Ladies Drowned

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 2

A terrible bathing fatality occurred, at Riverton, South Island, this morning. A nine-year-old girl, a niece of Mrs. Thomson, was bathing in the…

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Four Ladies Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1904 · page 4

Wellington, Sunday.—Mrs. John Fisher, wife of a former manager for Sir J. G. Ward, Mrs. D. Thomson, a niece of the last-named, and Miss Stevens have boon drowned while bathing at…

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