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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

284 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 15

Tram Collision. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 2

Which an electric tram car was proceeding towards Adelaide on Wedneday evening, the motor man fell off the car, leaving it running. No…

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Serious Accident at Gillespie's Tannery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 June 1918 · page 4

A boy named Albert Tuttkee, employed at Gillespie and Co.'s tannery, sustained a serious accident on Thursday morning. By some means his right hand was caught in a pressing…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 June 1918 · page 4

Mr. Allan Turner met with a painful accident at the motor garage in Verner-street at about 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning. He was testing a chain attached to a motor…

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Accident at Gillespie's Tannery Fatal Termination

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 June 1918 · page 2

Arthur Luttkee, who met with a serious accident at Gillespie and Co.'s tannery on Thursday of last week, died at the Goulburn and District Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. As…

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A Thrilling Motor Car Accident

Young Witness · Friday 14 June 1918 · page 2

Florence La Badie the great moving picture star who had only just completed the perfect Patho Gold Rooster special picture entitled The Woman…

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Accident at the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 June 1918 · page 2

Mr. Samuel Gay, night watchman at the railway shops, met with an accident this (Tuesdays) morning in a very simple manner. He was walking through a door of the shop, when…

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Four People Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 June 1918 · page 4

Melbourne. Tuesday.—While Mr. H. Judson, a well-known farmer, was taking his two sons and the two daughters of Mr. J. Sullivan to school at Nowstead this morning, the flood…

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Four People Drowned

Young Witness · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 1

While Mr. H. Judson, a well known farmer was taking his two sons and the two caughters of Mr. J. Sullvan to school at Newstead on Tuesday…

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Fatality on Collector Road. Mrs. Costello Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 4

About 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, Mrs. Costello, 80 years of age, of Collector, was brought to Goulburn District Hospital, and on examination it was found that she was dead…

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Late Fatal Accident

The Yass Courier · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 4

Particulars of the lute fatal accident to Mr. Sylvester Tarkington at Cobargo go to show that deceased and a number of other young men were…

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Disaster in America. Train Collision. Many Killed and Wounded

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 1

A Chicago message says 69 people were killed when the Michigan Central Army equipment train crashed into the rear of Hagenbeck's Circus train…

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A Shocking Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 1

Herbert J. Clifford, a lad 15 years of age, met with a fatal accident at Mr. W. Plant's sawmills, near Boree Creek, in the Lockhart district, on…

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A Shocking Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred at Parkes last week, when a liltle boy, aged three years, the son of Mr. W. Hignes, bumped into his mother, who…

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Shocking Railway Accident. CHICAGO

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 4

Sixty-nine persons were killed when a Michigan Central army equipment train crashed into the rear of a Hagenbeck Circus train Ivanhoe, Indiana at midnight. Four Pullman cars…

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Serious Shooting Accident. at North Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon a serious shooting accident occurred in Joshua-street, North Goulburn, the victim being Alexander Lowry, about 15 years of age. It appears that in company…

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General News. Fatality at Lockhart

Young Witness · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 4

On Saturday morning a wheat lumper named William McCarthy, was caught between the butters of some wheat trucks at Lockhu[?]t, and was…

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North Goulburn Shooting Accident. Fatal Termination

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1918 · page 2

At 9 o'clock last night the youth, Alexander Lowry; 15 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lowry, of Joshua-street, North Goulburn, succumbed to injuries which he received in a…

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North Goulburn Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 June 1918 · page 4

Upon inquiry on Friday afternoon it was learned that the youth, Alexander Lowry, who was accidentally shot in the back at North Goulburn on Wednesday afternoon, was in a…

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North Goulburn Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 4

An inquiry touching the death of Alexander Thomas Lowry, who died at tile Goulburn District Hospital on Friday night as the result of injuries received in a shooting accident…

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Motor Car and Sulky in Collision

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 3

WEST WYALONG, Monday.—As a result of a collision last night, between a motor car driven by a man named Purtell, and containing…

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