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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Motor Cycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Spring had an excitin accident while returning from Orange [?] accident while returning from Orange on Thursday (says the Orange "Leader" of April…

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Fatal Accident at Merrilla. a Boy Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 4

An accident with fatal results occurred at Merrilla on Thursday afternoon. A lad named Hector Surrey, a State apprentice to Mr. Fred. Cooper, blacksmith, was driving home, sitting…

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Motor Accident in Goulburn. Narrow Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 4

A man named Cecil Claude O'Connor, employed in the Railway Department, Goulburn, met with an accident in Auburn-street in front of Frost's Hotel at about 11 o'clock on…

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Railway Fatality at Bundanoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 April 1916 · page 4

Bundanoon, Saturday.—The night-officer at Bundanoon (Mr. Hallett) found the dead body of Joe Quinn, about 35 years of age, lying on the "down" line this morning at about 4…

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Railway Accident. Collision in Goulburn Yards

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 4

A serious accident involving considerable damage to rolling stock, but fortunately not attended with injury to anyone, occurred in the Goulburn railway yards on Sunday morning. A…

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The Merrilla Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 1

The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Hector Surrey, an apprentice to Mr. F. Cooper, blacksmith, of Merrilla, who was run over on April 20, and died in the Goulburn…

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A Shocking Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 2

A shocking and fatal railway accident happened this morning about 5.30 (says the Murrumburrah "Signal" of May 1), when Mr. Donald Austus Simpson, was run over by a train…

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Fatality at Murrumburrah Man Killed on Railway

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. G. S. Whiteman) who is also acting-coroner for the Murrumburrah district, was yesterday notified of a shocking…

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Motor Accident at Forses. Forbes

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 2

A motor car, driven, by John Gildart a farmer of Parkes, crashed into a sulky containing Mesdames Or[?]el and Hull and a child, near the Forbes…

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Railway Accident. Coluision in Goulburn Yards

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 3

A serious accident involving considerable damage to rolling stock, but fortunately not attended with injury to anyone, occurred in the Goulburn…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 4

Mrs. Emma Charles, who attempted to alight from a moving train at Granville, fell beneath the platform and a carriage, sustaining such shocking injuries that she died a few…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1916 · page 2

Wilfred McCallum while sawing wood at Donohoe's yard on Monday had two of the fingers of the left hand slashed by the saw. He was taken to the hospital, where it was found that…

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A Shocking Railway Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 3

A shocking and fatal railway accident happened this (Tuesday) morning about 8.30 when (says the 'Signal') Mr. Donald…

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A Soldier Injured

Young Witness · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

Private J. Matheson, of B Company, Ploneer Ballallon, who is believed to have come from Sydney, had his right arm torn off at the elbow…

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Inquest. the Murrumburrah Railway Fatality. an Open Verdict

Young Witness · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 3

Mr. G. S. Whiteman. coroner, held an inquest at Murrumburrah on Tuesday touching the death of Donald Augustus Simpson (31), who was run over…

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Train Accident Near Orange. Narrow Escape of Passengers

Young Witness · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 1

A sensational accident occured at Orange to the Forbes mail train. It was due en route to Sydney [?] o'clock, but it did not arrive [?]…

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A Painful Accident

Young Witness · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

At about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, William Watt of Monteagle, a lad of 18 years, met with a rather painful accident while sharpening the knives…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 2

A boy named Victor Holman, who was riding a bicycle, collided with Mr. A. R. Maple Brown's motor car in Auburn-street, near Market-street, on Thursday afternoon. He was…

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Burned to Death. Bungonia Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 2

At about 9 o'clock this morning the Goulburn police received a telephone message from Bungoina stating that a woman named Elizabeth Render had died on the previous evening at her…

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Fatality at Norwood. Burnt to Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 2

An inquest was held at the Goulburn Court. house this (Tuesday) morning before Mr. H. O'Brien (Coroner) concerning the death of Robert Abrahams, a labourer formerly…

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