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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Collision with the Police

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 2

The crowd, instead of dispersing by the open road, turned the corner, and were confronted by the solid detachment of police, which barred the way. Immediately the mounted men were upon…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. Leslie Alison, of Galong, son of Mr. W. Alison (formerly of South Hill), was on Tuesday riding across one of his own paddocks when he met with an accident. In avoiding a rabbit…

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Surfing Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 2

Cecil John Wilson, 29, lately residing with his parents at Corunna Road, Petersham, was drowned in the surf at Freshwater, near Manly, on Friday…

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An Injured Boxer. SYDNEY

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 2

Jack Carter, who has been an inmate of the Wagga Hospital for four months suffering from paralysis as the result of a boxing contest with…

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A Mining Fatality

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

Six miners have been killed in a mine explosion in Antonien, in the province of Silesia, Germany,…

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Priest’s Tragic Fate. Drowned at Crossing

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

FATHER JAMES KELLY, assistant priest at Singleton, was drowned at Noble’s Crossing, Gnennie’s Creek, on Sunday morning while on his way to celebrate Mass…

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Fatal Accident. Thrown From a Sulky

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon a man named George Robinson was brought into Young in an unconscious state, due to injuries he sustained through being thrown from…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

Patrick Mulligan, a labourer employed at Glenbrook railway deviation works, was run over by a train last night and killed. It appears deceased stepped off the train while it was…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 4

A youth named William Wells had his fingers caught in a cog-wheel while working at heel-building at Baxter's Boot Factory on Tuesday afternoon. The middle finger was somewhat…

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Children’s Accidents. Foot Badly Cat by Piece of Glass. Never be Without Zam-Bulk In the Home

The Yass Courier · Monday 19 February 1912 · page 4

“For general household use I find. Zam-Bulk to be unequalled,” says Mrs. E. Fossilo, of De Lisle Sheet, Framantic, W.A. “Where there are…

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Accident at Graywood. Prompt Action Saves Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 4

A man named Abrahams, one of a number employed at Graywood siding in cutting wood for Messrs. Gray Brothers' limekilns, had a narrow escape from losing his life on Tuesday. A steel…

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Railway Collision. SYDNEY

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 2

A collision between a railway motor car and a goods train occurred yesterday afternoon on the line-from Newnes Junction to Wolgan Valley, resulting in…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. D. McCrystal, dairyman, and his sister were driving to town on Friday along the Bungonia-road, when the horse fell, smashing both shafts of the sulky and throwing the occupants…

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Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 2

Gunning, Monday.—A boy, 2½ years of ago, the adopted child of Mr. William Thorn, Dalton, was drowned yesterday through falling into a well…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 2

The five-year-old son of Mr. C. Wilson, of King-horne-street, met with an accident on Saturday. The little one was playing in a room when he fell over a chair, fracturing his arm…

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Launch Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 February 1912 · page 4

Gesford, Tuesday.—An old resident of Brisbane Water, W. J. Huggart, met with a fatal accident at Woy Woy, falling bhtweren a launch and the wharf, and striking his head on the woodwork…

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First Aid to the Injured. Goulburn Railway Ambulance Corps

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 February 1912 · page 4

A meeting in connection with the Goulburn Railway Ambulance Corps was held in the Assemly Roomns, Goulburn, on Tuesday night for the purpose of presenting certificates, silver…

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Drowning Fatality at Dalton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 4

Our Dalton correspondent writes:—A sad drowning accident occured on Sunday afternoon at Coolong, when a little fellow nearly three years of age, adopted son of Mr. John Thorn, jun., fell…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 2

On Friday morning Mr. Hutchins, carter in the employ of Mr. Costley, baker, slipped as ho was getting on a broad cart and fell, a wheel massig over one foot and the other Jag,…

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Shocking Accident at the Carnival. Mr. C. Percy Holloway the Victim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 2

A most depressing event occurred at the Victoria Park Carnival on Friday early in the afternoon, before many people had assembled, and before the track officials…

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