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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Captain Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 April 1904 · page 3

The captain of the Mandjur was drowned in the sinking of the Petropavlovsk…

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Accident at a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 4

Young, Thursday.—A serious mining accident, which was fortunately unattended with loss of life, occurred at the Burrangong Gold Dredging Company's works at about 9 o'clock last night. Some…

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Drowned

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 2

An open [?]boat containing three fishermen capsized off Bondi to-day, and two of the occupants, [?]amed King and Carey, were drowned. [?]Griffith's,…

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Boating Fatality at Bondi

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 2

A BOATING fatality involving the loss of two lives, occurred off Bondi shortly after one o'clock yesterday afternoon. The names of the victims are John King and Samuel John…

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Two Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

Two fishermen, John King and Samuel John Carey, were drowned off Bondi on Thursday, whilst schanpper fishing. A heavy sea struck the boat, capsizing her. John Griffiths, the third…

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Fatality at a Foundry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

Newcastle, Thursday.—Bazil Squires, an engine-driver, aged 20, employed at Messrs. Goninan and Company's engineering works at Wickham, met his death to-day under remarkable circumstances. He…

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Reported Accident at a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

A few days ago a paragraph, extracted from a Sydney journal, which received it by telegram from Young, appeared in the Post, stating that a serious accident fortunately…

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Fatal Building Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 May 1904 · page 3

A FATAL accident happened on Saturday morning at Mr. J. Blackmore's farm at Forest Reefs, near Millthorpe. Several men were employed in building a wheat shed,…

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Shocking Fatal Accident. Boy Killed by a Train

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 May 1904 · page 2

AT 7.30 this morning William Joseph O'Reilly, ten years of age, lining with his mother en Mulwarree-street, Goulburn was run over by the Crookwell train and received terrible…

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Shocking Fatality on the Crookwell Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 4

A shocking accident which afterwards proved fatal occurred on Monday morning on the railway line near the Mulwarree at crossing. From the police report it appears that William Joseph O'Reilly, a…

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The Fatality on the Crookwell Line. Inquest at the Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 2

The District Coroner, Mr. H. O'Brien, held an inquest at the Goulburn Hospital this morning touching the death of William Joseph O'Reilly, who was accidentally killed on the railway line on…

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Sulky Accident

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 2

WHILE Mr. J. W. Butt and a friend were driving into town yesterday morning he had the misfortune to meet with a sulky accident. The horse he…

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Terrible Fatal Accident. Boy Run Over by the Crookwell Train. Both Legs Cut Off

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning a terrible accident occurred on the Crookwell line, just after the train leaves the main southern line at Goulburn When the…

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The Late Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 2

AN inquest was held at the Goulburn Hospital yesterday before Mr. H. O'Brien, coroner, on the body of William Joseph O'Reilly, aged ten, who was run over by the…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 2

WHEN returning from Bishopthorpe on Saturday afternoon Leslie King, son of Mr. G. King of Faithfull-street, and a member of the Australian Horse Band, had his leg broken…

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Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 May 1904 · page 4

With regard to the accident at La Ferriere, in which a train collided with a motor car, killing the six passengers of the latter, it is stated that the train carried the motor-car half a mile on the…

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Recent Railway Fatality

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

An inquest was held at the Goulburn hospital on Tuesday last, touching the death of William Joseph O'Reilly, who was run over by the Crook well train…

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Fatality on Crookwell Line

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

AN inquest touching the death of the boy William Joseph O'Reilly (aged 10 years), who was run over and killed by the Crookwell train near Goulburn…

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Drowned in a Well

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 4

Rockley, Thursday.—Emily Amelia M'Cartney, aged 12 years, was drowned in a well at Mount David on Tuesday evening. From the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquiry it…

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Nursery Notes. Nursery Accidents and How to Prevent Them

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 3

Says a London paper:-- A very sad sight was to be seen the other day in the children's ward of a London hospital--a baby of a year and…

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