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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

16 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Wreck of the Steamer Helen Macgregor. Eight Persons Drowned. (Telegram to Evening News.) Grafton, Friday evening

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 2

THE steamer Helen Maegregor, an old trader between Sydney, Newcastle, and Grafton, struck on a reef on the Clarence Bar, at 4 o'clock this…

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Alarming Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 3

On Tuesday evening, January 19th the 7.45 up passenger train from Lutton came into collision with a coal train near Wheathamstead station…

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Curious Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 April 1875 · page 2

THE Brisbane Courier says—A magisterial inquiry was held touching the death of Ann Masingarb, which occurred very suddenly on Wednesday…

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An Alarming Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 May 1875 · page 3

An alarming accident happened at the Jerusalem Chamber, Cowper's court, on March 2, between 2 and 3 o'clock, when most of the…

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Shocking Accident to a Young Lady

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred in Paris on March 17, which has thrown the Rothchild and other great Jewish families into mourning…

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Death From Accidentally Administering Carbolic Acid

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 June 1875 · page 3

AN inquest was held on Friday last at Courvoisier's Cafe, Sydney, on the body of one Earnest Grasset. Louisa Courvoisier deposed—I am a widow,…

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Remarkable and Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 4

NEAR Inangaban, New Zealand, two lath splitters, named respectively George Brown, and Frank D'Leancourt, were cross-cutting a fallen tree…

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Two Ladies Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 4

On July 19, two young ladies, Miss Dicks and Miss Thorpe, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, whose families were staying at Whi[?]ey, were taken out…

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Remarkable Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 2

On Wednesday evening, Master Walter Palmer, son of Mr P. C. Palmer of Jerrabomberra, met with a strange accident which fortunately was…

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Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 October 1875 · page 3

THE Walgeft correspondent of the M[?]itland Mercury furnishes the following particulars:— On Friday evening the 17th…

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Fatal Accident at Niagara Falls

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 October 1875 · page 4

A SAD occurrence, resulting in the death of a lady and gentleman, is reported in the Niagara Falls Registrar. On August 9 a party,…

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Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 November 1875 · page 2

Mr P. Shumack, sen., of Canberra, met with a very severe accident on Monday. Accompanied by his wife, Mr Shumack was driving into town,…

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Alarming Accident at Plymouth

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 3

Great consternation was caused in Stonehouse and Plymouth on the night of the 9th September, by the news that a large boat, having on…

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Fatal Boat Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 2

THE Tasmanian Tribune reports a fatal boat accident which occurred at Hobart Town on the Prince of Wales' birthday. At about two…

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Foundering of the Steamer Pacific. Upward of One Hundred and Fifty Persons Drowned. the Survivor's Statement

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 2

My name is Henry Frederick Jelly. I am a native of Ireland, but have lived for the last nine years in the Dominion of Canada, and of the age…

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Carriage Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 December 1875 · page 2

ON yesterday morning an accident, which was providentially unattended with serious harm to person or property, occurred to Mr P. C. Palmer's…

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