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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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

Double Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 2

News of a sad fatality reached Wagga on Wednesday evening, Mrs. Duane, wife of Mr. W. F. Duane, and her youngest child, aged 15 months, having been killed in a motor car. accident. Mr…

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Chinese Runs Amok. Fifteen People Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 4

A sensational shooting occurrence, resulting in the wounding of a number of people, with the narrow escape of many more, took place in Sydney early on Sunday evening, owing to…

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Railway Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 1

PARKES, Saturday.—Albert Schnaabel, who was engaged in shunting at the Parkes Railway Station, was pinned between the buffers and…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1919 · page 4

Gregory Hickey, employed on the wheat cleaner at South Goulburn, met with a serious accident on Tuesday night. By some mishap his left arm got caught between the buffers…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1919 · page 2

Mr. John Brow, an aged resident of Goulburn, is at present being treated for severe injuries received through falling down a flight of stairs at Gillespie's boot factory a short…

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Two Boys Killed Sad Railway Fatality. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 1

While two boys named Walker, sons of a widowed mother residing at Granville, were crossing the railway line at the Junction of the Carlingford…

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Sad River Fatality Brothers Playing on the Bank

Young Witness · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 4

An unhappy accident resulting the death by drowning of the [?] old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan [?] art, of Albury road, Wagga, [?]…

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Fatal Collision Cycle and Sulky. Orange Resident's Death

Young Witness · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 4

William Thomas Silk, aged about [?], died in the Burrangong District Hospital, Young, at about,6.45 p.m. on Tuesday as a result of injuries…

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The Latest Sydney, Tuesday. Accident to Express. Engine and Carriage Derailed. Many Passengers Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 2

The engine and two first-class carriages of an express train from Bendigo to Melbourne were derailed and overturned about a mile from Castlemainc this morning. A large…

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Express Train Disaster in Victoria. Many Injured. Melbourbe

Young Witness · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 2

The express train from Bendigo to Melbourne met with disaster this morning at Barker's Creek. The engine and two of the first class…

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Accidental Death

Young Witness · Tuesday 10 June 1919 · page 4

At the Coroner's Court, Young, on Saturday, the Inquiry into the circmnstances aurroundlnj; the death of William Silk (56), who died in the…

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Motor Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 June 1919 · page 2

A motor car, containing four persons, collided with a telegraph pole in Waverley. All were thrown out and more or less seriously injured…

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A Mother Shot Distressing Fatality at Codar

Young Witness · Friday 13 June 1919 · page 1

COBAR, Friday:—A married woman named Kilson was accidentally [?] dead at the Government Tank near Cobar. Her son aged 15 with…

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Sad Fatality. Boy Drowned in Mulwarree

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 4

Between four and five o'clock on Sunday afternoon Louis Harry Bodel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Robert Bodel, of Montague-street, was accidentally drowned in the Mulwarree…

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Drowned in the Liulwaree Sunday Afternoon Fatality

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 1

On Sunday afternoon between four and five o'clock, several boys were playing on the bank of the deep water, hole in the Mulwarce at the rear of…

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Railway Fatality

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 2

ALBURY, Monday.—A shocking event happened in the local railway goods yards this morning, the victim being Thomas Herbert Smiles, a…

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Fatal Sulky Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 1

WINDSOR, Tuesday. — Miss Dorothy Keynes, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Keynea of "Sunny Dell," Crookwell, was thrown from a…

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Fatal Accident. Crookwell Young Lady Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1919 · page 4

Miss Dorothy Keynes, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Keynes, of "Sunny Dell," Crookwell, was on Saturday afternoon thrown from a sulky near Windsor. She, received…

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Shooting Fatality

The Yass Courier · Thursday 19 June 1919 · page 4

James Baines (Robertson 70 a wharf labourer, was fatally wounded at his home in Gloucester-street. Sydney, on Saturday night. While…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 June 1919 · page 2

A severe accident occurred at Conolly’s Mill on Friday morning. How it happened is not clear, but a lad named J. Howe ran the handle of a broom into the region of the groin,…

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