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Many articles from Australian newspapers are available at trove.nla.gov.au. The following report appeared in the Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer, a newspaper published in the state of Victoria, on page 2 of the edition for 23 January 1855. We are grateful to Brian Fisher for finding it:
FATAL ACCIDENT.–A fatal accident occurred yesterday, to a man of the name of Thomas Yoe, who was employed by Mr Gibson, livery stable keeper, to cart a quantity of hay from his (Mr Gibson’s) farm, on the Barrabool Hills; deceased was observed by a person on the road driving for town and sitting on the shafts of the dray; the team was some short time afterwards seen without the driver, and the deceased was found some few hundred yards up the road lying in an insensible condition; he was at once removed to the house of Mr Lewis market gardener, where he expired in three minutes afterwards; the wheel of the dray had evidently passed over his body.
Thomas was buried at Geeolong Eastern Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Please Contact Us if you can identify him. It has been suggested that he was about 40; the spelling of his surname is probably inaccurate as the variant Yoe is rare in Australia.