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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

306 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 16

Brother Accidentally Shoots His Twin Brother

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 2

Wollongong, Friday.—A fatal shooting accident occurred at Mount Keira this afternoon about 3 o'clock. It appears that three young men named Edward Rowles, Stanley Cook, and…

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Fatal Riding Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 5

Cooma, Thursday.—An elderly man named Andrew Bond, a farmer, of Little Plain, died at the Cooma Hospital yesterday as the result of an accident on Tuesday…

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Coach Accident. Some Narrow Escapes

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 2

A SERIOUS coach accident happened at about 11.30 on Wednesday night last a short distance from Murrumburrah which nearly cost some human lives…

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Fatal Drowning Accident at Tumut

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

The “Times” says:—It is with extreme regret that we record a melancholy incident that occurred on Tuesday afternoon last, when Mr…

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Collision in Channel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 1

An unknown merchantman came into collision in the Channel with the cruiser Sappho, 3400 tons, bound for Dungeness, last night. The Sappho was severely damaged, and when the…

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Four Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 3

Rockhampton, Sunday.—A serious accident occurred at Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company's copper works this morning. As the result of a converter being turned downwards to…

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Trams in Collision. London, June 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

Two electric trams, both proceeding at a high rate of speed at Chesterton, Indiana, came into collision. Ten people were killed, and twenty were injured, some fatally…

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A Noted Jockey Fatally Injured

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

James Barbour, who was injured internally when the steeplechaser Tracker fell with him on Saturday morning week, died on Friday. He…

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The Channel Collision. Sappho Strikes Sappho. June 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

The cruiser Sappho, which came into collision with a merchantman in the Channel last night, was beached at Dover. The name of the merchantman, it is now…

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Accident at the Goulburn Goods-shed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 4

A peculiar accident occurred at the railway goods-shed on Saturday afternoon. Two trucks which were coupled were being shunted into the shed, when the second truck split the points…

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Revolver Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

Mr. Robert Herriott, a married man, of about 26 years of age, was endeavouring to extract a bullet from a revolver at Bungendore on Monday, when…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

A lad, George Cameron, an employee of Mr. W. J. Lemon, plumber, had the thumb of his right hand caught in some cog wheels on Saturday, with the result that the thumb…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 3

Qurindi, Monday.—A dreadful shooting accident occurred on Saturday about noon. Mr. William Edward Hibbs, aged 42, about four weeks ago purchased Thornleigh property from…

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Football Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 4

Your football players were treated in Sydney Hospitals for injuries sustained last Saturday. One man had concussion of the brain, another had his left hip and jaw injured, a third was knocked…

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Motor Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 4

As Mr. W. H. Wheatley's motor-car was returning to Goulburn on Sunday it overturned on the Collector road. Thorn wore four occupants—Messrs. L. Wheatley, A. J. Bryson, and…

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Results of an Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

Bert Carless, who was injured some months ago in an explosion, is still in Prince Alfred Hospital, but is doing well. "He has lost an eye completely, and his right side is affected a little, but he is…

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A Collision on Sea. Salvage Operations Commenced

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 2

From the details to hand of the Sappho collision, they go to show that the bow of the vessel was shattered, and the plates of the cruiser below…

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Wild Scenes in Paris. Riots in a Church. a Hundred Persons Injured

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 6

Arising out of the new law for the separation of Church and State, there were scenes of extraordinary violence in Paris to-day. They occurred in the…

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Shooting Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 4

Goulburn, Wednesday.--An inquest was held at the Goulburn Hospital today touching the death of Robert Herriott, who died in the institution last…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 4

Mr. W. Rooke, a well-known railway employee, formerly of Goulburn, but now of Junce, met with an accident on Wednesday. In the course of his duties, a guard's, the…

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