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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

285 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 15

Boy Seriously Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon Master Jack Kellett, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kellett, of Verner-street, fell from a pine tree in Victoria Park. His head struck a tree-root. The…

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Child Drowned in River

Young Witness · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 6

ALBURY, Thursday.—Beatrice Victoria Counsell, 18, was accidentally drowned in the Kiowa River. She came from North Melbourne to spend…

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Young Man Found Drowned. Cleve Donnelly's Sad End

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 1

On Friday, 27th ult., Mr. Cleve Donnelly, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Donnelly, of Burrowa, left his parents' home at mid-day…

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270 British Sailors Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 4

New York, Jan. 1.—It reported that 270 British sailors have been drowned off the Scotch coast. The victims were sailors on leave, and were…

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Bush Fire Fatality. a Braidwood Grazier

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. Andrew Watt, the well-known grazier of Krawaree, died in the Braidwood Hospital on Christmas Day. An inquest was hold before the Coroner (Mr. T. W. Draper) on Monday…

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Plucky Driver. Takes on Train Though Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

Driver V. Morgan, of Goulburn, while driving the Temora mail last (Friday) night, met with an accident as he was on his engine at Picton and fractured his collarbone, in two…

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Fatal Accident. Man Killed by Log

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 1

As Mr. James Davidson, aged 72, a resident of Narrabeen, was digging a channel on the beach this morning, a log measuring 30 feet by 2 feet knocked him down and rolled over…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

On inquiry this (Saturday) morning it was found that the boy, Jack Kellett, who sustained a fracture of the skull as the result of a fall in Victoria Park, was slightly improved…

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Drowned While Bathing

The Yass Courier · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 3

Miss Beatrice Victoria Connsell, 18, was accidentally drowned in the Kiewa River, near Albury, on New Year’s Day. She came from North…

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Fatality at Broken Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

James Whitelaw, employed on the De Bavay plant treatment at Broken Hill, was buried under several tons of skips, and died from suffocation…

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Bush Fire Fatality a Braidwood Grazier

Young Witness · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. Andrew Watt, the well Known gnuier of Krawaree, died in the Braldwood Hospital on Xmas Day. An inquest was hold before the Coroner…

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Plucky Driver Takes on Train Though Injured

Young Witness · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Driver W. Morgan, of Goulburn, while driving the Temora mail on Friday night met with an accident as he was on his engine at Picton and…

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A Peculiar Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Perey English, aged 5, son of Mr. and Mrs, English, of Marengo, met with a painful accident recently in a peculiar manner. The little chap…

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A Peculiar Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

One morning last week while 'Bob" Henderson was riding the receshors Fubeau a working gallop on the Cowra rececourse a calf walked across…

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Tram and Train Collide. Many People Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

A sensational collision between a tram and a train, occurred at Rockhampton late last night, as a result of which 14 persons were more or less seriously injured, while a number of…

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Railway Accident at Hurstville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 2

A number of railway carriages crashed into the buffers of the dead end at Hurstville this morning. The impact was so severe that the foremost carriage was forced completely up…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. Thomas Bieasdale, Health Inspector at Granville (and previously of Young) was badly injured in a collision between his motor cycle and…

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Gun Accident

Young Witness · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Leslle Howard, 18, a railway porter, whilst out rabbit shooting with a companion, James Griffiths, at Seven Hills on Tuesday afternoon was…

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Railway Fatality. Near Cook's Cutting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 4

A man named William Samuel Swan, a painter on the railways, who had been employed as a painter at Cook's Cutting, was run over by a railway engine at 11 p.m. on Thursday…

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Double Drowning

Young Witness · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 4

NARANDERA, Saturday.— A double drowning accident occured on the Murrumbldgeo River last night. D[?]thy Eileen Robertson, aged 14, a…

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