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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Accident at Baw Baw

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1908 · page 2

A twelve-year-old son of Mr. F. W. Gray, Baw Baw, was swinging on Wednesday afternoon, when he fell to the ground, fracturing his thigh. Dr. Finnis was called in and set the…

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No Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 May 1908 · page 2

The boy was sitting on the pavement, crying bitterly. " How did it happen?" .asked a sympathetic gentleman who chanced to be…

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Sensational Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 2

Melbourne, Friday.—A sensational coach accident occurred on the Moe-Walhalla road to-day. At the approach to Cobb and Co.'s stables at Tyers 12 miles from Moe, to…

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Accident at Guninng

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 2

Gunning, Monday.—A runaway occurred last night about dusk. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Barber were returning from Mount Pleasant, where Mr. Barber had conducted divine…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 May 1908 · page 2

While a number of men were engaged in discharging portion of a locomotive from a steamer at Darling Island this morning the boom broke. A man named Arthur…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 1

Melbourne. Tuesday.—Dr. H. R. Horne, who was injured in the motor car accident at Taralgon yesterday, succumbed . to his injuries to-day. Dr. Horne served with…

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The Braybrook Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 3

Melbourne, Wednesday.—The Coroner (Dr. Cole) held a conference with the exports entrusted with the work of testing the brakes on the Bendigo train. Dr. Cole explained that it…

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Love and Mystery. CHAPTER V. an Accident and a [?] of Acquaintance[?]

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 4

Soon Haz[?]bourne, Mr. Pryor’s residence, came into view. To the girl’s surprise, she beheld her father actually standing at the gate,…

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Collision at Bellambi. Coach Driver Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 4

Woonona, Thursday.—A fearful accident occurred at Bellambi this afternoon. At about 2 o'clock, at the point where the South Bulli Company tramline intersects the main South…

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A Tragic Accident

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 6

After facing death scores of times and thrilling vast audiences twice daily by looping the loop in a motor-car, Mrs Mitzel Morok, a pretty woman of 19…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

Esme, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. Ross Roberts, of North Goulburn on Friday afternoon met with what might have easily been a more serious accident. She was seated by…

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Fatality at Binalong

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 2

A boy named Harold M’Gilvery, 12 years of age, son of Mr. W. M’Gilvery, of Binalong, was shot dead yesterday. In company with two other boys he was…

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Pinned Under Sulky and Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 4

Singleton, Sunday.—A married woman named Norah Ayres, 73 years of age, was drowned at Carrington, near Jerry's Plains on Friday afternoon. A daughter of deceased…

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Binalong. Fatal Pea-rifle Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 2

A sad fatal pea-rifle accident happened here [?] Sunday evening last, when Harold McGillivray, a bright little lad of 12 years of age, and oldest son of Mr…

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Fatal Motoring Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 2

Melbourne, Friday.—A motor, containing A. Z. Clarke, a mining engineer, and his driver, Archibald Hall, whilst on the road from Macedon to Melbourne this afternoon…

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Blasting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 May 1908 · page 4

Carcoar, Tuesday.—A blasting accident occurred this afternoon at tile Coombing ironstone quarry, resulting in two men being badly injured. A man named Wallace…

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Another Dreadful Accident!

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 1

No intelligent man now fails to recognise the grave risk incurred by this every-day contingency, and that the most desirable protection is the Insurance Policy of a…

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Accidentally Killed

The Yass Courier · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

The Gundagai “Independent” reports :— A Jugiong man, named George He[?]rly, was accidentally killed on the Coolac. Jugiong road on Tuesday…

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Drowning Fatality

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 3

WE extend to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cu[?]ick our sympathy with them to the less they have sustained through the drowning of their son, Andrew aged 31 years, On Tuesday morning…

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A Human Chain. Lad Saved From Drowning

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 4

A human chain of twelve girls and boys saved George Richards from drowing in the Morris canal, near Richfield, N.J…

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