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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1876

20 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Frightful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 January 1876 · page 2

AT ten o'clock on Friday morning our (Evening News) Parramatta correspondent forwarded us the following telegram:—A frightful…

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Resuscitation from Apparent Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 February 1876 · page 2

On Tuesday evening a girl of thirteen, daughter of Mr J. Smith, storekeeper and postmaster at Foxlow, was with some other children bathing in…

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Two Deaths by Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 February 1876 · page 4

A SAD case of death by drowning of two boys occurred on Sunday afternoon Feb. 6, at Bolwarra. The boys were the sons of Mr Charles…

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Fatal Accident at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 March 1876 · page 2

Dr Morton, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Bungendore, on Monday, touching the death of one John Ott, then and there…

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Two Children Drowned in Fiji

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 3

A melancholy affair happened at Lan Lau, Upper Rewa, on the 8th January, (says the Fiji Times), resulting in the death of Mr Dodd's…

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Accidentally Shooting a Sweet-heart

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 3

A free-selector who resides on his conditional, purchase, not many miles from Albury, recently purchased a six-barrelled revolver. In order to…

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Serious Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 March 1876 · page 2

On Thursday last a fine little boy—Isaac, son of Mr F. Dunn, of Sutton—whilst engaged with his father in felling a tree received very shocking…

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The Late Accident at Sutton

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 2

The little boy Isaac Dunn, referred to in our last issue, suffered amputation of the leg above the knee on Saturday; we regret to state, however, that…

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Distressing Case of Accidental Poisoning

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 March 1876 · page 3

WE regret to have to record a very painful case of accidental poisoning by strychnine on Wednesday morning last at Mr S.M'Caughey's Coonong…

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Fatal Boat Accident on the Nile

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 4

SOME details of this terrible disaster are given in a letter to the Times, dated Alexandria, January 1. The writer says:—…

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Fearful Double Railway Collision in England

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 March 1876 · page 2

From the S. M. Herald's Melbourne Telegraphic correspondent we learn that papers received by the Durbam contain full particulars of the…

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Double Collision on the Great Northern Railway. Further Particulars

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 3

THE special correspondent of the Daily News writing from Huntingdon on January 22nd says:— The sun was shining brightly…

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Another Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 2

We regret to state that on Tuesday evening an accident, which resulted in death, befel Mr Levi Plummer, of Weetangara. Deceased was returning…

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Serious Accident at Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 April 1876 · page 2

On Thursday a son of Mr E. Bambridge, of Canberra—a lad about thirteen years of age—was thrown or fell from his horse, and very badly hurt…

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Accident to the Rev. G. Soares

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 May 1876 · page 2

We learn from the Bathorst Times that a very serious accident occurred on the Orange road on last Monday afternoon week to the Rev. Mr…

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A Girl Accidentally Killed by a Brother

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 May 1876 · page 4

Mr HARE, J.P., held an inquest at the Adelaide Hospital, on Wednesday, April 19, as to the death of a child about ten years of age, named…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 3

THE Progres de l' Est, a paper published in Alsace, reports that a dreadful railway accident took place on the morning of the 13th March,…

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Sad Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 31 May 1876 · page 3

THE City Coroner held an inquest on Tuesday morning, at the Shakespere Hotel, Newtown, touching the death of a child named George…

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A Mother Accidentally Shot by her Son

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 June 1876 · page 2

A MAGISTERIAL enquiry was held (says the Maitland Mercury) on Friday, May 26, at Mr Thomas Hassell's residence, Apple Tree Flat, Muswellbrook, before…

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Death by Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 27 July 1876 · page 2

A little boy, William Griffiths, one year and ten months old, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Griffiths, of Primrose Valley, Molonglo, was accidentally drowned in Spring Creek,…

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