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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Inquest. Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

The inquest into the death of Charles C. Collier was continued at the Court-house, Goulburn, this (Tuesday) morning, before the Coroner, Mr. O'Brien…

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Shocking Fatality Near Breadalbane

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 4

At 1.15 on Monday morning information was received in Goulburn that a man had been run over and killed by the express train near Breadalbane. Constable Christian left immediately…

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Fatality at Fitzroy Falls

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

On Saturday night last the dead body of a man, the victim of a horrible fatality at Fitzroy Falls, about 15 miles from Moss Vale, was brought into Moss Vale by Constable Burton,…

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Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 2

A rather remarkable street accident happened this (Thursday) morning. Mr. E. Roots' delivery van was standing in front of Messrs. O. H. Furner and Co.'s. when the horse was startled by…

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The Latest. Serious Accident at Crookwell Show. Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 2

The second day of the Crookwell show was marred by a serious accident, which happened to a young man named Ianes McDoald, eldest son of the late Mr. William McDonald, of…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 2

Mr. Charles Elms, of the Per. Way Dept., Goulburn, had his hand caught in a planning machine on Friday, an ugly, lacerated wound being inflicted. First aid was rendered by members of…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 4

A parcel delivery boy, named John Gannon, in the employ of Mr. C. W. Furner, had an accident in Montague-street on Thursday. He was riding a bicycle, and something went wrong with the…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

Mr. John Cody met with an accident on Tuesday night and sustained painful injuries, besides experiencing a very narrow escape from a worse fate. He was in company with Mr. Stalker, an…

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Accident to Submarine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 4

The indications are that the 3's commander was aware of tile danger from the vessel which recently collided with her, and took proper means to avoid a collision, but a submerged…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 4

A shocking railway accident happened at Blacktown station on Saturday evening about 7 O'clock. As a passenger train from Penrith was approaching, Reuben George Armstrong, 47. a…

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The Marine Collision. LONDON

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

The Oceania remained [?]at for several hours after collision. The pilot aboard the liner declares that any loss of life was unnecessary in connection with the disaster…

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Accidents. SYDNEY

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

Owing to the horse bolting, Henry Wilkinson a, farmer near Somerton was thrown from his buggy and Killed, while his wife and son was badly injured…

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Sand Point (Idaho), Monday. Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1912 · page 2

A freight train and sixty cars struck a rock slide on the Great Northern line. The engine rollewd over an embankment, and three cars were wrecked. The engine driver, fireman, and…

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Serious Accident at Burrinjuck

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

A sensational accident occurred at Burrinjuck on Friday morning. A shot had been fired at about eight o’clock, and about an hour afterwards…

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A Camp Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 6

Liverpool, Thursday.—A private named Witten, attached to the Army Service Corps, encamped at Moorbank, was drowned about noon to-day whilst bathing in George's River,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 4

As the result of a vehicle accident on Thursday Mrs. J. A. Gegg, of North Goulburn, had the misfortune to fracture her right arm in two places. Mrs. Gegg was seated in the vehicle, a…

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Tuena Resident Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Blayney, Thursday.—James Cartwright, a resident of Tuena, was admitted to Blayney Hospital suffering from a serious injury to the head, and is in a critical condition. The injured man, who…

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Extraordinary Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Murwillumbah, Thursday.—Yesterday afternoon Cecil Ellem, 7 years, the son of a well-known farmer of Mooball, was lifting down a knee rail to allow some cows to enter a paddock,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Mr. B. R. Nosworthy, the well-known cricketer, met with a painful accident on Wednesday at the Goulburn Engineering Works, where ho is employed being struck in the eve…

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Tragic Drowning Case. Mother and Three Children

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 2

Brisbane, Monday.—The Brisbane River at Whitton's Flat, near Indooroopilly, was the scene of a most distressing drowning accident, in which a mother and three children perished…

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