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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1882

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Fatal Tramway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1882 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Elizabeth-street South on Thursday morning, on the body of Margaret Alice Wells, aged five years, the little…

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Coroner's Inquests. Drowned Whilst Fishing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 April 1882 · page 2

AN inquest was held on Friday last, before the district coroner, T. Parr Esq., on the body of Alfred Monk, an old resident of the district, whose body had been found in the Queanbeyan…

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1981. Collision in Mid Air

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1882 · page 4

THE car "Messenger Bird," which left this port for London at 5 o'clock last evening, collided with the Liverpool car "Duke of Wellington" en route for this…

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The Fatal Accident on the Waverly Tram Line

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1882 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquest at his chambers on Thursday morning on the body if the little girl Elsie Mabel Smeo, who was killed on Tuesday afternoon by the…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 November 1882 · page 2

A san accident happened on Monday last at Cookbundoon, on the Lower Wollondilly, by which the wife of a settler named Albert Bunter lost her life. The husband was…

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Serious Railway Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 2

A TELEGRAM to the Echo, dated Bathurst Saturday, states:—The following are the particulars of the Bathurst railway disaster:—As the 3.30 mail train was coming round the curve into the…

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Frightful Railway Accident Near Melbourne. Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 December 1882 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL railway accident occurred on the Hawthorn line last night, shortly before 7, owing to two passenger trains going in different directions colliding. It appears that a special…

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