Serious Blasting Accident
Gloucester, Monday.âAn accident occurred at the 32-mile camp (Crisp's gang), on the North Coast railway construction works, Gloucester to Taree. Blasting powder had been placed in a…
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Accidents, 1911
295 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 15
Young Man Drowned
Forbes, Wednesday.—A sad fatality occurred on Monday evening, when Cecil Grinsted, aged 20 years, a son of E. J. Grinsted, stationer, was drowned. He was bathing in the…
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James McFarlane, aged 50, employed as a pump attendant at the Colonial Sugar Co.'s refining works at Pyrmont, was drawn into the machinery, and had his right leg badly lacerated…
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Out of the 30 men aboard the sunken submare U3 at Kiel 27 crept through the torpedo tube when the bow was raised, and were saved, but the commander and two others…
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The Young "Chronicle" says:âIf ever a man had bad luck in the way of accidents it is our genial settler, Mr. Harry Chew, but Providence seems to have saved him every time from the…
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The bodies of eight men and three children have been recovered from carriages. telescoped in a collision between passenger, and coal trains in Rhondda Valley, Wales…
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A very old resident of this district ! named Catherine English, met with a painful accident at North Yass. She fell and fractured her arm near the…
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SHORTLY before 2 o’clock on Saturday morning a serious railway smash occurred at the Central Station. Two locomotives, which had hauled a…
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Lithgow, Wednesday.—A railway fencer named Frank Bogg, 58, received shocking injuries near Eskbank coaling stage this morning. How Bogg got on the railway line…
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A woman named Frances Stevens, 45, who was knocked down by a motor car at Woollahra at the end of November, sustaining a fracture of the skull, and was admitted…
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Four surf bathers—two men and two boys—were drowned under most distressing circumstances at Coogee Beach shortly after noon on Saturday…
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Roy Fowler, aged 22, the son of Mrs. E. Fowler, of Clifford-street, was on Friday washed off a horse in crossing a creek at Dimbible, Murwillumbah, and drowned. The body was found…
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Rather a serious accident occurred to Mr. Joe Styles early on Sunday morning. He was riding towards home from Mr. T. Grace’s, and was making a short cut…
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Mr. J. Hocter was out driving along the Norwood Road on Sunday with two ladies, Mrs. H. Marsh and Miss Muggleton, when the horse commenced to play up. As a result…
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It transpires that David, Andrew Wilson, the boy, aged 9 years, who was drowned at Coogee recently, was a son of the late Mr. John Wilson, formerly a fitter in the railway fitting shop at…
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Mrs. H. Laker and her son Mr. Albert Laker, were returning from a drive on Thursday afternoon, and had come to within fifty yards of their home in John-street, when the pony commenced…
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Robert Garradd, agted 22, son of Mr. J. R. Garradd, of Addison-street, was engaged with a horse and dray near the showground on Monday, when he fell, and the dray…
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The body of Alfred Willoughby, aged it, was found floating in Woolli Creek, near Aracliffe, this morning. Deceased left home yesterday afternoon How he got into the…
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Mr. A. E. Grovenor, commission agent, of the Olden Fleet, Collins-street, Melbourne, and brother of Mr. T. W. Grovenor, of Goulburn, met with an accident on Tuesday. Mr. Grovenor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Children Poisoned. Sad Accident at Wallangarra
Inverell, Wednesday.âA shocking fatality occurred near Wallangarra, 40 miles north of Inverell, yesterday, by which two children, aged 5 and 2 years respectively, lost their lives. Their…
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