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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1870

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Terrible Mining Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 April 1870 · page 4

A TERRIBLE mining accident occurred on Saturday morning, at 5 o'clock, at the village of Stockton, near Hazleton. At the hour named, the community was startled…

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Serious Collision.—sinking of the Steamer Waimea

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 November 1870 · page 2

THE city was thrown into a state of considerable excitement last night, by a report last being circulated that the steamer Lady Young had been sunk in the…

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Dreadful Accident at O'brien's Creek

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 November 1870 · page 4

ON Saturday evening a dreadful accident, resulting in the drowning of two persons, MissKate Kirk, a young lady residing with Messrs Nixon as governess at Gregadoo,…

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