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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1864

11 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Accident on the Mountain

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 20 February 1864 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening much alarm was felt on a report reaching Aral[?], that a loaded dray and horses had gone over the mountain side down a steep…

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Melancholy and Fatal Accident

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1864 · page 3

ON Tuesday evening week, a deplorable accident occurred at Sapling Point, at a claim known as Biss’s. Three men, named Nicholls, White,…

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Collision at Sea. Accident to the Wonga Wonga, Steamer

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1864 · page 3

THIS vessel returned to port shortly before midnight having run into t[?] schooner Viceroy, about seven miles south of the Heads. The first…

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Hanged by Accident

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1864 · page 3

A very singular case of accidental hanging occurred in Cumberland last week, by which a boy, named George Dodd, 14 years of age lost…

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Fatal Accident

The Araluen Star and Miners' Right · Saturday 23 April 1864 · page 4

On Sunday last another sad accident occurred amongst us by which Mr. Brown well known as pianist at Mr. Johnson’s London Tavern met…

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Fatal Accident at Araluen Another Life Sacrificed

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 April 1864 · page 2

WE have the melancholy duty to record another death, which took place at Araluen on Sunday evening last, and from all we can gather of the…

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Fatal Accident at the Little River Two Diggers Kllled

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 April 1864 · page 2

INFORMATION was brought into town yesterday evening that two men working on the little River goldfields; had met with an [?]…

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The Late Accident at Araluen

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1864 · page 3

THE following particulars of the funeral cortege of the late Mr. Brown, who was accidentally at Araluen last week, are taken from the Araluen…

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Restoration of the Apparently Drowned

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1864 · page 4

WE reprint the new instructions issued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the restoration of the apparently…

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Fatal and Melancholy Yacht Accident

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1864 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to record the death, by drowning of two gentlemen, Mr Thomas Freeman, who was an officer in the Treasury and a Lieutenant in the No 1 Company…

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The Late Fatal Boat Accident. Seven Lives Lost.—coroner's Inquest

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1864 · page 3

THE City Coroner, with a jury of six, held an inquest on Thursday last, at the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany, on view of the bodies of Peter Molloy, Mary Anne Molloy,…

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