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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Railway Tricycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

Melbourne, Sunday.—At Seymour on Saturday a fearful railway accident occurred to a line-repairer named Charles Taylor, 40 years, and his wife, 28 years. The…

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Struck by Lightning. a Girl Killed and a Man Seriously Injured

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 2

DURING a storm at Leura yesterday morning, Ethel Heffernan, aged 12, of Station-street, Newtown, who was on a visit to Leura, was killed. She was watching some friends…

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Flood of Whisky. Ten People Injured and One Killed. Carts Caught in Deluge

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 2

THE Lock Katrine Distillery, on the south side of Glasgow, was the scene of an extraordinary incident on the morning of November 20. —A “wash-charter“—a huge vessel containing about…

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Sensational Driving Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 4

AN accident of a serious character happened on Devil's Elbow Mountain, 17 miles from Bingars. Mrs. W. E. Wearne, with Miss Wearne, and a son four years of age, were…

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Accidents and Fatalities

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 3

RUSSELL ISSANCHON, 8, residing at Petersham, fell from a moving tram in Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, yesterday, and sustained concussion of the brain…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 4

A passenger and a goods train came into collision near Washington, on the Baltimore-Ohio railway. The deaths are variously estimated between 15 and 40. One hundred…

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Wonderful Escapes In Railway Accidents

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 4

WHEN a heavy express, rushing along at nearly a mile a minute, leaves the rails, charges another train, or crashes through a bridge, the marvel is not that the…

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A Rescuer Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 4

Melbourne, Monday.—At Bruthen on Sunday Harry Sumner, 20, met with his death under. pathetic circumstances. With a number of others he was swimming in the Tambo River. A lad, Phil…

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Story of Sad Drowning Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 2

Melbourne, Wednesday.—A seven year old boy, David Lynch, left his home in Cardigan street on Monday morning. As he did not return home his mother, who was almost…

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Terrible Collision

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

Two passenger trains on the Chicago Pacific railway came into collision near Alta Vista, Texas. Thirty five people were killed and twenty-one injured…

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Coach Capsized. Passengers Injured

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

THE Tenterfield-Casino mail coach met with a serious accident on the Casino side of the Sandilands Range. A white cow lying under a tree on the road frightened the two front…

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A Coach Capsized. Passengers Badly Injured

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

Canino, Wednesday.—Last night the incoming Te[?]erfield C[?]ino mail coach overturned near Sandilands Range, about thirty miles out. The passengers…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 5

Yesterday evening a collision occurred in Auburn-street, near Brook's hotel, between two cyclists, which resulted in one of the riders, Charles Callaghan, receiving painful…

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Serious Buggy Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

A serious driving accident occurred near Caurumbi station, Stockingbi[?]gal on Sunday. The buggy contained Mr. J. McClintock, who manage Caurumbi…

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Terrible Collision. Fatal Omission of Telegraphist. London, Jan. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 6

Two passenger trains on the Chicago-Pacific railway came into collision near Alta Vista, Texas. Thirty-five people were killed and 21 others injured. Twenty-nine…

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Railway Accidents. London, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 8

Mr. Black, M.P., who was injured in the Arbroath accident, died yesterday from his injuries. He was aged 47. A passenger and a goods train came into…

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Fatality at Bondi

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 3

JOHN MAXWELL, 37, a member of the Royal Australian Artillery, was found dead on the rocks under the cliff at Bond North on Saturday. Oswald Manton, a fisherman,…

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Railway Accidents at Granville

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 2

THERE were two accidents near the Granville railway station on Friday evening. Fortunately no casualties resulted, the worst feature being the delay occasioned to traffic…

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Beach Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned on Monday afternoon at the inquest into the death of Alexander Thomas Field, a wool scourer, who resided in Gerrard-street, Alexandria, and which took…

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Rome Express Wrecked. a Midnight Collision. a Ghastly. Scenes

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 4

From Rome on 7th October the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- A terrible, rail way disaster occurred at…

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