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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1869

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Lamentable Hunting Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 April 1869 · page 4

On Thursday, February 4, a sad fatality occurred by the upsetting of a boat in which a number of gentlemen connected with the York and Ainsty Hunt were crossing the…

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Local and District News. Melancholy Death of a Mother and Child by Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 August 1869 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was brought into town early on last Tuesday morning that the wife of a shepherd named Gallagher, residing near Foxlow, had, together with her son, a child five or six years old, whom she in…

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F[?]ghtful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 October 1869 · page 4

Another terrible accident occurred on the Erie railway, at Mast Hope station, thirty miles from port Jervis, on July 14, by which some ten or fifteen human beings were…

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