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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Australian Cricketers in England. First Test Match. Trumper Badly Injured

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 2

THE first test match of the tour between Australia and England was begun at Nottingham Monday. Howell, Gehrs, Newland. and Hopkins stood out of the Australian…

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Scalding Fatality at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 4

The following are the particulars gleaned from the evidence taken before Mr. District Coroner Gale, at Bungendore on Saturday last, at an inquest as to the cause of the death of the little child, Elsie belay…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 2

While driving to his orchard at Kenmore on Wednesday Mr. Thomas Grunsell, son., met with a painful accident. It appears that the wheel of the vehicle in which he was seated went into a rut…

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Accident to Mr. T. Grunsell

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 2

MR. THOMAS GRUNSELL senior met with a serious accident through being thrown out of a sulky while driving to his orchard at Kenmore on Wednesday. The sufferer lay on…

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Railway Accident at Melbourne. Sensational Collision at Spencer-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

Melbourne, Thursday.—A railway accident, which fortunately was not attended by loss of life, occurred in the Spencer-street railway yard within 200 yards of the end of the country platform this…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 June 1905 · page 2

MR. DONALD McLEAY, aged 20, a young man employed on the railway, met with a serious accident while engaged in shooting operations at Goulburn early this morning,…

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Result of an Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 June 1905 · page 2

THE fettler Theodore Robert Jones who was seriously injured by a train crashing into is tricycle on 20th March has remained in the Goulburn Hospital since that time every…

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Shunting Accident in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 4

Donald McLeay, a young man, employed as head shunter at Goulburn station, met with a serious accident on Monday morning while in the performance of his duty. About a quarter…

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Accident to an Ex-Goulburnite

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 4

While engaged in shunting, at the Redfern railway station on Wednesday night John Triglone, of Park-avenue, Ashfield, son of Mr. T. Triglone, Goulburn, was caught between…

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Accident to Mr. O'Hanlon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 4

Writing from Sydney on Wednesday to a friend in Goulburn Mr. W. O'Hanlon, formerly a resident of Goulburn, states that he met with an accident in Tamworth some time ago,…

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A Dreadful Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 2

A DREADFUL fatality occurred at Wagga on Saturday morning. Mr. Jno. Hanes. (about 50), was sinking a well, when the earth gave way, embedding him to about the waist. He…

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A Dreadful Accident. Smothered in Drift Sand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 4

Wagga, Saturday.—A dreadful fatality occurred at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Jno. Hanes, aged about 50 years, was sinking a well for drainage at the rear of the Bridge…

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Naval Accidents. London, June 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 4

Lieutenant Kenneth Stobart, of H.M.S. Magnificent, one of the officers injured in the gun explosion, has died. This makes four deaths. The caus of the accident has been…

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Accident to Mr. W. Hanley

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 4

Mr. W. Henley, who is employed at Mears. C. Rogers and Co.'s, had on Saturday morning a narrow escape from serious if not fatal injury, a heavy packing case falling upon him. It struck him…

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Ghastly Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 2

SHORTLY after 8 p.m. on Wednesday a gruesome discovery was made by a railway employe, who discovered the body of a man lying between two sets of rails near…

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A Dreadful Accident

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 4

Wagga, Saturday. A dreadful fatality occurred at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Jno. Hanes, aged about 50 years, was sinking a well…

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Fatality on the Mummell Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 June 1905 · page 2

About six o'clock this (Thursday) morning while on his way to the Retreat, Mummell, Mr. Alex. Wilson, a contractor, residing at Goulburn, stumbled over something lying on…

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Football Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

DENIS DRISCOLL, residing at Paddington, while playing football at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday, received a kick which necessitated his removal to St. Vincent's…

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The Mummell Road Fatality

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

The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the sad death of Mr. William Thomas Thomson, who was found dead on the Mummell Road on Thursday. morning, concluded after our last issue…

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Accident at a Factory

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

On Friday afternoon lad named George Randall, employed at Messrs. Baxter and Co.'s factory, Goulburn, had his right hand caught in a roller at which he was working. He was taken to the…

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