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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Pea-rifle Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 4

ON Friday last a boy named Williams, residing at North Goulburn, was the unfortunate victim of an accident from a pea-rifle at Kenmore. He was on the Goulburn side of…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 3

ON Friday evening Mr. J. E. Broderick met with a painful accident as he was returning home on horseback with two friends from Crookwell. His horse stumbled and throw…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 2
Also in Argyle Liberal and District Recorder

ON Friday evening Mr. J. E. Broderick met with a painful accident as he was returning home on horseback with two friends from Crookwell. His…

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The Barber's Creek Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 2

Bowral, Friday.—Mr. J. J. Simpson, 24 years of age, of Leichhardt, who fractured his spine on Easter Sunday by falling down a cliff when gathering ferns at Barber's Creek, died at the hospital…

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What Caused the Kuring-gai Accident?

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 3

The Court of Marine Inquiry was on Monday engaged in inquiring into the collision of the Manly ferry steamer Kuring-gai with the wharf at Circular Quay. The Court found that…

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Telegrams. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Horses Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 4

Two valuable horse attached to a lorry backed over the Grafton wharf this morning, and were drowned. FOOTBALL…

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R.m.s. Orotava in a Storm. Three Seamen Injured

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 May 1905 · page 4

THE R.M.S. Orotava on the way from Melbourne to Adelaide was struck by a heavy gale, the most severe force of which was met when Cape Otway was abeam. A…

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Shocking Mining Fatality

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Saturday.—A shocking fatal accident occured to-day at the Broken Hill South mine. James Ferguson and Thomas Pollock, both…

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An Old Time Jockey. Accidentally Shot

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 4

Followers of racing will regret regret to learn that “Johnny” Higgerson, the celebrated jockey who flourished in the pig skin 50 years ago, is at present lying in the…

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Accidental Burning

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon Miss Alice Egan, youngest daughter of Mr. P. Egan, of Crookwell, was standing with her back to the stove when her…

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Terrible Burning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 3

Melbourne, Wednesday.—A terrible burning accident occurred at Gordon early this morning to John Wright, who lived alone in a four-roomed cottage. About 6 a.m. E. Chapman, a…

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Accident to a Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 2

A boy named Walter Beddoe, residing with his parents at North Goulburn, fell from one of the willow trees on the banks of the Woolondily to-day and sustained a fracture of the thigh…

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Serious Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 2

MR. JAMES HICKEY, the popular and much respected teacher of the Cucumgilliga Public School, was we deeply regret to state, the victim of a painful…

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Dreadful Accident. Two Men Blown to Pieces

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 4

Broken Hill, Saturday.—Two miners, James Ferguson and Thos. Pollock, were blown to pieces at South Mine this morning through boring into an old hole in…

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Harbor Collision. a Boy Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 May 1905 · page 2

DURING a heavy rain squall in Sydney on Friday night, a sensational collison occurred between the steamer Peterborough and the kotch Jessie, resulting unhappily in the loss…

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The Kaiserin's Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 3

The wound in the Kaiserin's temple bled freely, but her condition is satisfactory…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 May 1905 · page 2

A goods train with passenger carriages attached was derailed near Kharkoff, and many persons were killed or injured. LONDON, Wednesday…

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Australians Injured. London, May 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 4

Three of the Australians are suffering from injuries. Darling has an injured thumb, Armstrong a lame foot, and Cotter has hurt one of his hands…

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Australians Injured. London, May 25

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 4

Three of the Australians are suffering from injuries. Darling has an injured thumb, Armstrong a lame foot, and Cotter has hurt one of his hands…

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