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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

296 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 15

Shocking Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1910 · page 4

Melbourne, Sunday—A shocking railway accident occurred at Castlemaine yesterday. Roy Kirkpatrick, rick, a telegraph messenger, aged 15 years, was crossing the line, when he was knocked down by a…

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Accident

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 2

A terrible turning accident is reported from Gre[?]fell. From the meagre particulars to hand it appears that a young girl named O'Connell, daughter of Mr. W. C…

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Curious Accident on Popular Line

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1910 · page 4

"In a closely-packed carriage of the Dover line the lamp overhead, which had just been lit, fell, among other things, upon the face of a beautiful…

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A Strange Duel. Police Chief Injured

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 4

Captain Queipo, a cavalry officer, has just spent a month's imprisonment in a fortress owing to the role he played in connection with the manifestations…

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Shocking Railway Fatality. at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

At 9.20 last (Friday) evening Mr. John Gregory Keefe met his death at the railway-yards, being run over by a truck while shunting. The assistant telegraph operator…

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A Strange Duel. Police Chief Injured

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 2

Captain Quelpo, a cavalry officer, has just spent a month’s imprisonment in a fortress owing to the role he played in connection with the manifestations…

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Motor Cars Collide. Four Persons Injured. Driven Through the Glass Shield

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

The motor cars of Messrs. F. W. Fairbairn, of Sandringham, and Victor H. Gard, of South Melbourne, came into violent collision on the St. Kilda-road with…

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Reported Sensational Railway Accident. at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

A report was received in Goulburn this morning of a sensational railway accident near Bungendore. According to statements made a train must have crashed through the gates…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 4

As a young man named William George Armstrong, son of Mr. James Armstrong, of Bungonia, was riding a bicycle to Goulburn on Saturday he lost control of the…

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Taxi and Tram Collision

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 2

A taxicab and tram collided in College-street. The former was over turned, and the occupants thrown out, Miss Bailey receiving a fractured…

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Thirty-two People Drowned. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 June 1910 · page 2

A Delagoa Bay message reports that an excursion boat party from Elems capsized off Inyak, an island at the entrance of the bay. Thirty-two of the party were drowned…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 2

In the football match at Galong on Wednesday week, Joe Barry, the Yass forward, had the bad luck to fracture his collarbone…

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Shocking Accident at Goulburn

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 8

A fatal accident occurred at Goulburn on Friday night between nine and ten o'clock at the railway station, when John Gregory Keefe was run over by a truck while shunting…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 2

Robert Williams, a boy of eight years, was admitted to the hospital last (Monday) evening, suffering from a gash across the forehead. The boy, it is understood, was with a…

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Nearly an Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 4

Dr. Buchanan was driving along Auburn-street on Wednesday morning, when his sulky collided with a dray. The shock unseated the doctor, who jumped clear of the vehicle…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 2

Mr. John McCallum, of Apsley Grange, near Laggan, was riding in his paddock on Saturday morning, when his horse placed its hoof in a rabbit burrow and fell. Mr…

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Painful Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 2

A painful accident happened to Mr. C Feltness, at ‘Esdale’ near Bo[?]mbolo this week. He was cutting wood, when a splinter flew up and lodged in his eye…

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The Pejar Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 2

At the inquest touching the death of Mr. John Siggs, of Pejar, who was found dead on Tuesday morning with a bullet wound in the forehead and a pea rifle beside the body,…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. a Marine Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

The steam yacht Ravadi, belonging to the Fiji Government, has arrived from Suva with her bows badly battered and her stem twisted. When the vessel was off Barrenjocy this…

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News from the Capital. SYDNEY, Friday. the Motor Fatality

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 7

The Attorney-General refuses to file a bill against Dr. Kelly in connection with the St. Leonard motor fatality…

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