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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1874

8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Fatal Accident in Sydney Harbour

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 January 1874 · page 2

AN ACCIDENT of an exceedingly painful nature took place yesterday in the harbour, by which three human beings in the very heydey of life lost their…

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Terrible Collision at Sea Two Hundred and Sixteen Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 February 1874 · page 4

NEWS has been recieved of one of the most terrible catastrophes which have happened at sea during late years paralleled only by the wreck of…

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Fatal Accident at West Maitland

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 May 1874 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon last, a sad accident occurred in West Maitland, by which a promising young man named Alexander Patterson, son of…

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Accidental Death of Professor Phillips

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 4

Our readers, and especially all those who feel an interest in science will learn with regret the news which reaches us from Oxford, that…

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Drowning of Commander Gowlland, R.n. and One of His Boat's Crew

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 August 1874 · page 3

ABOUT 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, information was brought to Sydney of the drowning of Commander Gowlland, and one of his…

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Drowning of Seven Men

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 4

THE Hobart Town Mercury of the 22nd instant reports the following terrible calamity, which occurred to the captain and a portion of the crew…

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Melancholy and Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 September 1874 · page 3

ABOUT one o'clock Thursday Mr William Davies, Mr R. H. Blatchford, and Walter John Pitty, one of Mr Davies's employes, left Goulburn…

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Dreadful Railway Accident— Upwards of 80 Persons Killed and Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 3

The entire chapter of railway accidents, to which additions have of late been frightfully numerous, has no parallel to this Great Eastern…

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