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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Petrol Explosion. a Dozen People Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 2

Went Wyalong, Friday:—A fire, resulting in severe injuries to several people, the destruction of a motor car, and some damage to premises, occurred in the machinery depot of J…

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Shocking Accident

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 4

A little boy named Arthur Ashley Cooper, aged seven, who resides with his parents in Yass-street, Young, met with a shocking…

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Boy’s Arm Off Shocking Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 2

Ernest Ashley Cooper, 7½ years of age, son of Mr. E. A. Cooper, of Young, met with a shocking accident on Tuesday Iast, as a result of which…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 2

About 8 o'clock this Saturday morning, while working at Mulwarree Pumps, Pumper Reid had the misfortune to fall from a ladder, and in his descent he struck an iron pipe,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 4

Constable Gilbert met with an accident on Monday morning. lie was assisting to harness up the fire-engine, owing to the outbreak of fire, and was leading a horse out, when the…

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Two Brothers Drowned in a Tank

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 January 1913 · page 2

Three brothers, James (18), .Charles (22), and Alfred (27) Cunningham, sons of a well-known farmer at. Go[?]mbargana, went to bathe in a tank on Sunday…

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SUAKIM, Wednesday. Three Hundred and Fifty Pilgrims Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 2

A caravan of Indian pilgrims at El Hanara, midway between Medina and Yambo, was over whelmed at midnight by a sudden mountain flood, and 350 persons were drowned…

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Fire at Wyalong Twelve People Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 3

A fire, resulting in severe injuries to several people, the destruction of a motor car, and some damage to premises, occurred in the machinery depot…

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Boy's Arm Off. Shocking Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 3

Ernest Ashley Cooper, 7½ years of age, son of Mr. E. A. Cooper, of Young, met with a shocking accident on Tuesday last, as a result of which…

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Cowra Fatality. Killed at a Bush Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 2

On Monday last Mr. Charles Henry (Hector) Gubbins, 36 years of ago, a single man, and well known in the Cowra district, met his death whilst assisting at…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 2

Mr. C. Magee, licensee of the Post-office Hotel, was driving with a friend in Citizen-street on Friday afternoon, when the horse stumbled. Both occupants were thrown out, Mr. Magee…

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Accident at Tennis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 2

Mr. Carter, of the Police Superintendent's office, had the misfortune last Friday to meet with an accident while playing tennis. In reaching for a ball which went wide he placed…

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Terrible Blasting Accident. Twenty Men Injured. One Succumbs

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 6

A terrible blasting accident occurred at Queensport between 4 and 5 o’clock on Friday Afternoon at the premises of the Australian Meat Export Co…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

Cowra "Free Press" reports a very sad fatal accident which happened to Mr. Charles Henry (Hector) Gubbins, a farmer on the resumed area of North…

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Burrinjuck. Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 2

Quite a gloom was cast over the camp on Sunday last, when it became known that a little boy named Alick McFarlane, aged 7 years, had whilst paddling with a companion fallen into…

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Thirty People Drowned. Havre, Jan. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 2

The French steamer Phyrne, 2817 tons, collided with and sank the German ship Pangani, 3054 tons, outward bound from Hamburg to Valparaiso, when off Cape La Hogue…

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Express in Collision

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 6

Very narrowly the 8.15 Great Northern sleeping car express from King's-cross to Edinburgh escaped destruction at Darlington early on Saturday morning,…

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Shooting Affray at Orange. Husband and Wiee Injured. Orange

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 2

It has been reporttd to the police that William Langham, a member of a well-known Orange family, this afternoon, about 5 o'clock, went to…

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Driving Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last Mr. C. Anderton, of Lovell-street, was driving from Young to his work on the Galong to Burrowa railway line, when about 12…

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Peculiar Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 2

Richard Luke was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital on Friday, suffering from injuries to the head. The accident happened in the vicinity of Towrang, but how it occurred is not known…

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