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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Double Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 3

A dingy causized in Moreton Bay on Saturday, throwing a party of excursionists into the water. Elsie Atthow and Willie Fielding, two of the party, were drowned…

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Drowning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

[?]ay.—A sad drowning acci[?] 6 o'clock this evening. Two [?] 10 years, were paddling in [?] River, half a mile from the…

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Horrible Mining Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 3

Kalgoorlie, Friday.—A horrible fatality occurred at the Ivanhoe Mines Charles Hass and a mate, George Holmes, were working on a rise between the four and five…

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Fatality at Bondi. Boy Carried Out to Sea

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 3

The last day but one of the old year was marked by a sad bathing fatality at Bondi Beach, the victim being Cecil Charles Brooks, aged 13 years, lately residing with his parents at Llandaff-street,…

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A Camp Quarrell.—man Fatally Injured. Wagga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

An assault case presenting some serious aspects occurred in the vicinity of Alfredtown. As a consequence of the affair, one man was brought to town and admitted to the hospital in what is…

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Rebels Drowned

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 3

Rebels at Moscow on Saturday night attempted to escape across the river. Many were drowned, owing to sappers secretly cutting a 30-ft channel through the ice…

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Cab and Tram Collision

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 3

ABOUT 8 o'clock last evening a cab collided with a tram at Kogarah, with the result that two men were injured, one seriously. On approaching Endeavour-street, a horse…

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Train Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

Thirty soldiers were killed and many injured in a collision between military trains at Lebedin, Little Russia…

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Drowned While Attempting to Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

Rebels at Moscow on Saturday night attempted to escape across the river, but many were drowned owing to sappers having secretly cut a thirty-foot channel in the ice…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

ABOUT 3 p.m. on Wednesday a lad named Ronald McLeod, aged 13, son of Mr. J. McLeod of Burwood, Sydney, was drowned in the Wollondilly River at McLeod's…

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A Drowning Case at Brisbane

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 4

AT an inquest on Wednesday, conducted by Mr. Neilson, J.P., concerning the death by drowning of the boy Arthur Moboby, at Inddooroopilly, James William Henry. aged 15…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning. Plucky Rescue of a Child

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

On New Year’s Day the town of Yass was almost adding one more to the many sad and serious cases of drowning that have occurred throughout) the State…

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A Man Fatally Injured. Wagga

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

An assault case presenting some serious aspects occurred in the vicinity of Alfredtown. At a consequence of the affair, one man was brought to town and…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

JUST as the fire bell was ringing about 4.20 yesterday afternoon a policeman, hastening to the fire, ran into Mr. J. J. Richardson at the corner of Auburn and Clifford streets…

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The Recent Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

Mr. O'Brien, the district coroner, held on Thursday afternoon an inquiry at the residence of Mr. Condie, Opal-street, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ronald…

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Accident to H. H. Brook

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

Quite a sensation was caused on Friday (says the Sydney Herald) when it was announced that Australia's coming champion had sustained an accident while bathing at Coogee. It…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 2

As Mr. J. Bergin of Taralga was proceeding to Goulburn on Monday afternoon with a load of wool, he had the misfortune to run over the embankment going down Cooper's…

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Two Boys Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

Brisbane. Monday.—Three boys, named John Krescher, aged 19 (orphan), John Edward Brown, 11, and Donald Alexander Drown, 6, the two lastnamed being sons of a farmer at…

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Rendering First Aid to the Apparently Drowned

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

LAST week a very sad case of drowning occurred at Gundagai, whereby a father and his two daughters lost their lives by drowning. Through the plucky…

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Sensational Accident on the Taralga Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 4

Mr. J. Bergin, carrier, had a most sensational experience at Cooper's Hill on the Taralga road last week as he was bringing a load of wool into town on his waggon, which was…

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