History with Brian James: The fatal coach accident

Updated July 10 2020 - 8:56am, first published July 2 2020 - 4:43pm
Cobb and Co, 2013. Photo: contributed
Cobb and Co, 2013. Photo: contributed

From a Correspondent to the Empire, Sydney June 9, 1863. On Sunday morning, June 7, a sad and fatal accident occurred through the upsetting of the Lachlan coach in Sandy Creek, 25 miles from Young, by which a poor woman by the name of Mrs Alexander, was drowned. It appears that the coach, which left Young at 2am Sunday morning, and had great difficulty crossing the many creeks which intersect the Lachlan Road, owing to their being flooded by the deluge of rain which fell on Saturday night.

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