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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Pea Riele Fatality. at Baw Baw

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 4

A sad pea rifle fatality is reported from Baw Baw, about seven miles from Goulburn. Harry Guymer, aged 20, son of Mr. Frank Guymer, Bow vaw, being the victim. He left home at about…

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Sleep-walker Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 6

Melbourne, Thursday.—A peculiar accident happened near Castlemaine last night to Norman Jeal, 21, residing at Bendigo. Jeal was a member of a football team from…

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Ran From Drowning Girl. Young Cowards Censored

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 7

What the Wills hall (Staffordshire) coroner described as the most outrageous act of cowardice he had ever heard of was described on Monday…

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Ran From Drowning Girl. Young Cowards Censured

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 4

What the Willenhall (Staffordshire) coroner described as the most outrageous act of cowardice he had ever heard of was described on Monday…

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Circular Saw Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 4

Corowa, Saturday.—A young man named Cook, aged 21, had the misfortune to lose his right arm on Thursday as the result of it coming in contact with a circular saw at…

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Two Hundred Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 2

A typhoon capsized many fishing boats on the Amur, near Nikolalesk. Two hundred fishermen wore drowned…

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Telegrams. Fire in Clarence-street. Girl Seriously Injured. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 4

A fire broke out during the-forenoon in a five-storeyed building in Clarence-street. partly occupied by Messrs. D. Mitchell and Company, wholesale grocers. It. appears…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 2

Mr. Butler, shunter, met with an accident in the Goulburn railway yard on Wednesday. He slipped from a moving engine off which he was stepping, and fell on his face,…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 4

On Thursday two trucks of sheep were overturned in the Goulburn railway yards. It appears a shunting engine was turned on the wrong line and crashed into the trucks,…

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Collision in Canada. Prime Minister Injured. London, Aug. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 4

Sir Wilfrid Lanrler. Prime Minister, in the midst of his western tour has been in a train collision. He was travelling in a special train with Mr. G. P. Graham, the Minister for…

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Railway Derailments and Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1910 · page 2

Information concerning the number of derailments and accidents to trains or engines on the railways of New South Wales between July 1, 1907, and July 4, 1910, was supplied in the Legislative Assembly on…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1910 · page 2

Mr. R. J. Thomas, carter for Messrs. Charles Rogers and Co., met with a painful accident on Tuesday. While delivering a box of butter at St. Patrick's College he tripped on the edge of a…

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Curious Motoring Fatality

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 2

While holding the rope by which horses were pulling his motor char a [?] out of some mad, Mr. David kinder aged seventy-three of…

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Aeronautics. Airman Fatally Injured. London, Aug. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 4

Mr. Walter Brookings, who recently attained a record height of 6100ft. at Atlanta City (U.S.A.), on a Wright bi-plane, was fatally injured yesterday at Asbury Park, New York…

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Tarago. Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 4

Mr. Jack Graham, second son of the late Mr. James Graham, of Tarago met with an accident on the 3rd instant, which ended fatally two days later. The deceased was…

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Curious Motoring Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 4

While holding the rope by which horses were pulling his motor char a banc out of some mud, Mr David Kinder, aged seventy-three, of…

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[Reuter's.] Aeronautics. Another Fatality. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 4

An exciting struggle for the Daily Mail's prize of £1000 for the longest aggregate flights across country for the year ending midnight to-day is taking place. Up to Friday M. Paulhan's record…

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Collision in France. London, Aug. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 3

In the Saujon collision the Sunday excursion train from Bordeaux, carrying 1100 passengers, dashed into the goods train at the rate of 40 miles an hour…

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Burning Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident by fire occurred at Crowther on Sunday, by which a young girl named Margaret Phillips, daughter of Mr. Walter Phillips, a share farmer on…

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[REUTER'S.] Loss of a Cruiser. Many of the Crew Drowned. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 2

Eighteen persons were drowned in connection with the grounding of the cruiser Bedford. The ship is in Jeopardy. Later…

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