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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1867

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Melacholy and Fatal Accident with Firearms

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1867 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday, at the Observer Tavern, George street, on the body of George Cruise, late second mate of the ship Eastward Ho…

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The Fatal Snake Accident

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1867 · page 2

DR. YOUL held an inquest, yesterday, at the Melbourne Hospital, upon the body of Mr. J. B. Burnstall, who died on the previous day from the effects of a bite of a cobra da capella…

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Richmond. a Mother and Ten Children Drowned

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1867 · page 3

Through a young man who rode over on horseback from Richmond to Pen[?]ith, we learn that great bavoc had been caused on Richmond Bottoms, the flat between Richmond town and the river, and that…

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Fearful Railway Accident Between Bombay and Bhosawal

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 August 1867 · page 6

EARLY on Wednesday, June 25th, one of the most appalling accidents which it has ever been the fate of journalists in India to relate, occurred on the G.I.P. Railway to…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Braidwood Independent · Wednesday 11 September 1867 · page 7

ON Saturday forenoon, June 29th, a very dreadful accident occurred near Warrington. The twenty-three minutes past ten train from Liverpool to Birmingham and London…

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Fatal Boat Accident at the Heads.—five Persons Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE by telegram from the Heads was received yesterday morning that a boat was capsized on Sunday evening off the South Qeef, and that five persons were drowned…

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