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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Railway Collision

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

THE excursion train which left Melbourne yesterday afternoon for Sydney collided with a goods train at Longwood, on the Victorian side, about midnight. Both engines were…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening May Denny, aged tour years, residing at Middle Arm, had. her right thumb and other lingers badly injured in a chaffcutter. The injuries were attended…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon Mary Denny, aged 4 years, residing with her parents at Middle Arm. whilst playing with other children had her right hand caught in a chaff-outter. The…

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Narrow Escape from Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 2

Melbourne, Friday.—At about quarter past 1 o'clock this morning an accident that might easily have been serious, but fortunately merely occasioned the delay of a train, happened at Longwood A…

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Destroyer Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 4

The destroyer boat Foam (British) stove in her bows through colliding with a French schooner during a sham fight…

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Accident at Yass Junction

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 2

Early on Saturday morning last an engine conveying several trucks of stock ran off the line at Yass Junction, tearing up several yards of the line. One…

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Railway Accident at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 4

The local railway officials held an inquiry on Monday into the circumstances surrounding the derailment of the express goods train near Yass Junction on Saturday. The engine and two trucks…

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Railway Accident in Victoria

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 2

An accidents happened to an excursion train from Melbourne to Sydney on Thursday night last at Wangaratta station. It has been reported that there were two or…

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Marine Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1904 · page 4

The Varzin, of the German-Australian line, bound for Australian, collided with another steamer in a fog and returned to Hamburg with her stern plates stove in…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1904 · page 2

Mr. Clark, electrician at the Kenmore Hospital for Insane, met with a painful accident on Wednesday. While engaged in regulating the dynamo of the electric plant at the…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1904 · page 3

Blayney, Wednesday.—A fatal accident occurred at 3 o'clock this morning at the local railway station to Assistant-guard Hammett. The deceased, who had arrived by the goods…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

WHILE Mr. Clark, electrician at Kenmore Hospital was engaged in regulating the dynamo of the electric plant at the hospital on Wednesday his hand camp into contact…

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A Shocking Fatality. Burned to Death

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatality by which a child under two years of age was burnt to death, in consequence of an outbreak of fire at the residence of her father Mr. W. Stanbury, occurred at Wellington on…

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Railway Accident at Mittagong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

A serious accident happened at Mittagong railway station yesterday afternoon From particulars to hand in town this morning it would seem that a young woman named Okey…

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Railway Fatality at Mittagong. Smart First Aid and Surgical Work

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

THE inquest held at Bowral yesterday respecting the death of Miss Florence Okey, a resident of Moss Vale, revealed the fact that deceased was hurrying to catch the Moss…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

A young woman named Oakes attempted to cross the railway line a[?] Mittagong by diving under a truck attached to a train, when the latter…

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A Baltic Cruiser Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 4

French papers publish a St. Petersburg telegram recording a serious explosion on the Russian Baltic cruiser Smolensk, resulting either from the bursting of a boiler or from…

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Railway Fatality at Mittagong. Smart "First Aid" and Surgical Work

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 4

The inquest held at Bowral on Thursday into the lamentable death of Miss Florence Okey revealed the fact that the deceased was hurrying to catch the Moss Vale passenger…

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Fatal Train Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 June 1904 · page 2

A MARRIED woman named Harmer, living at Dundas, met with a shocking accident at the Redfern railway-station on Saturday night, and died from her injuries, shortly after…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatal accident happened to a woman at Redfern railway station on Saturday night. Her name is given as Mrs. Harmer (26) of Dundas,…

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