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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Shocking Burning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 4

Melbourne, Sunday.—A shocking burning accident occurred at Beach Forest on Friday. Welter Jackson, a splitter, went down a gully to obtain tools in danger of being burnt in a…

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Dreadful Burning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 2

A TERRIBLE burning accident, which, it is expected, will prove fatal, occurred at Bourke on Monday afternoon to Miss Peter, who resides with her sister, Mrs. Howells. It…

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Loss of Memory. Charles Braun Not Drowned. Wandering in Melbourne Streets; Melbourne

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 2

CHARLES Lima Braun, ex-member of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, who mysteriously disappeared from the steamer Euryafus on the let instant, has been found. He is a victim to…

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Drowning of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 4

Melbourne Tuesday.—At the inquest on Theresa Mary Migues, who was drowned by falling into the Yarra off the ferry steps at Richmond, a verdict of accidental death was…

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Sad and Fatal Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 2

A very sad and fatal accident happened on Wednesday last, when Master Thomas Ordige, eldest son of Mr. Edward Ordige, of Yass, was killed…

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Shocking Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred at Wallend been railway station on Thursday. As the platform porter was handing a tablet to the driver of an engine he fell between the platform and the…

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Gunning. Fatal Accident to a Jockey

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 4

An inquiry was held at the Courthouse on Thursday morning before Mr. E. E Morgan, dis rict coroner, touching the death of Tom Ordige, who met his death on tile racecourse on the previous day…

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Drowning Fatality at Kenmore

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 2

A SAD fatality occurred near Kenmore yesterday afternoon, Erwin Rea, aged 9, son of Mr. Robert Rea, attendant at Kenmore hospital, being drowned in a water hole at the…

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British and Foreign. London, Sunday afternoon. a Shipping Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 3

THE Allan liner Parisian, with a thousand passengers on board, collided with the Albano, of the Hamburg-American Company, carrying 800 passengers, off Halifax, Nova…

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Boy Drowned at Kenmore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 4

The District Coroner (Mr. H. O'Brien) held an inquiry at the residence of Mr. Robert Rea, Kenmore, on Monday concerning the death of a boy named Herbert Irwin Rea, which took place on…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

Information has been received in the city indicating that a former resident named George Phillipson was accidentally killed at Wellington on Friday last. It is understood that Mr. Phillipson, who is…

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Serious Accident to a Fettler

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 2

A fettler named Theodore Robert Jones, who was accidentally injured on the railway line close to Bungendore in Wednesday, lies in the Goulburn Hospital in a very precarious…

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Bicycle Accident. a Lad Seriously Injured

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

ABOUT 9 o'clock last night Leslie Johnson (13) and Harry Johnson (17), sons of Mr. Thomas Johnson of Sloane-street, who were both riding bicycles, collided, with the result…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 5

A train became derailed at Seeaux, France. Several carriages were fired. Three persons were killed, and six injured…

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Shocking Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

A PETTLER named Theodore Robert Jones met with a shocking accident on the railway on Wednesday, which resulted in very serious injuries. He was engaged in painting…

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Accident at Queanbeyan

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 3

Whilst making a bed on Sunday morning [?]iss Annie Smith, of East Queanbeyan, pet with a most painful accident, A steel [?]tten sprang up and hit her in the right…

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Shooting Accident at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 4

A young man named Donohoe, whilst shooting wallabies in company with another young fellow named Daniels, had the misfortune to be shot in the wrist by the latter. Donohoe was brought to the…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

Leslie Johnson, 13 years of age, residing with tie parents in Sloane-street, met with a serious accident on Thursday night while cycling. It appears that as the lad was about to turn the corner of Clinton…

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The Recent Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 4

On inquiry at the Goulburn Hospital shortly after noon on Friday it was ascertained that the young man Jones, who met with a very severe accident on the railway line near Bungendore on…

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Serious Pea-Rifle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

Camden, Friday.—Athol Druitt, son of Alderman E. F. Druitt, whilst shooting near Camden yesterday afternoon met with a serious accident. He was carrying a pea-rifle, and when passing over a…

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