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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

An accident which caused some sensation occurred in Auburn-street near the Town Hall this (Saturday) afternoon about 2 o'clock. A motor car belonging to M. Cole, of Winderradeen, was…

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Railway Collision

Goulburn Herald · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 2

A RAILWAY collision occurred at Stanwell Park on Friday morning, when a train of empty coal hoppers, which was coming from Orford, crashed into a stationary train of…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 2

ABOUT 2 p.m. on Saturday, as Mrs. P. Wilson of Rosemonte was driving along Auburn-street, the horse took fright at Mr. Cole's motor car and bolted, but it did not proced…

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Accident to Lord Kitchener

Goulburn Herald · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 3

Lord Kitchener's horse, at the Poons manœuvres, put its hind leg into a hole and rolled 14 feet down a steep bank. Lord Kitchener was severely shaken. but…

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Drowning Fatalities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

Hay, Monday. — A magisterial inquiry was held to-day by the coroner respecting the death of John J. Nagle, railway porter, who was drowned in the Murrumbidgee…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post, Argyle Liberal and District Recorder

Mr. W. Green, of this town, met with a painful accident on Saturday by being thrown from a baker's cart which he was driving. His face was…

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Stanwell Park Railway Collision

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners have received the report of an official board, consisting of Mr. Richardson (Traffic Superintendent), Mr. Loughrey (Locomotive Superintendent),…

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The Earthquake In Jamaica. Kingston’s Death Roll Twelve Hundred Lives Lost. Several Thousand Persons Injured. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 4

The police place the deaths resulting from the earthquake at Kingston, Jamaics, at 1200, while several thousand persons are estimated to have been injured, many of…

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Shocking Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 2

Shortly after 11 o'clock on Wednesday a shocking tram accident occurred at Randwick, resuiting in the death of a young man named James Ambrose Hibberson. Hibberson was a…

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Vehicle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 2

Some stir wan caused in Auburn-street on Wednesday afternoon by an accident to a phaeton belonging to Mr. W. T. Daniel, The horse in turning its head caught tile bit-ring on the…

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Shocking Tram Fatality. a Youth Mutilated

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 3

SHORTLY after 11 o'clock on Wednesday a shocking tram accident occurred at Randwick, resulting in the death of a young man named James Ambrose Hibberson…

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Accident to a Vehicle

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

OWING to the ring of the bit on Mrs. W. T. Daniel's horse catching on the shaft of the phaeton in Auburn-street on Wednesday afternoon, the horse fell and broke one of the…

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Dynamite Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 1

[?] Wednesday.—A serious accident happend at Mogilla yesterday. Some children of Mr. Robert Jamieson were playing near a barn when they picked up…

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Sad Drowning Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2

Deniliquin," Monday.—A sad drowning case occurred late yesterday afternoon in the Edward River, near Sampson's Hole, 13 miles from town. Messrs. Percy Hall, clerk;…

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Fatality at Parliament House

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2

The grounds of Parliament house were the scene of a fatal accident late on Saturday Three men, Mr Mundy,…

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Serious Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

On Monday evening last, about 8 p.m. Mr. W. C. H. Roberts of Currawong Station was engaged in 'rounding up some horses in the paddock…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 February 1907 · page 2

A MINER named Robert Fenwick, aged about 33, was killed on the Fast Greta railway on Friday night at Heddon-Greta. Fenwick, who was a resident of Heddon-Greta, left…

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Shocking Shooting Accident

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 February 1907 · page 4

A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Beaufort Castle, Hexham, the residence of Captain J. H. Cathbert, D.S.O. While a party was shooting over the…

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