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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1884

8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Restoring the Apparently Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1884 · page 4

DR. ASIIE has courteously sent us Newcastle Herald) the rules adopted in the Royal Society's system of restoring the apparently drowned. They…

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London. Terrible Collision—22 Lives Lost. January 26

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1884 · page 2

A TERRIBLE collision occurred in the English Channel on Friday during a gale, between the City of Lucknow, homeward bound from Adelaide and the ship Simla from London to…

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Local News and Notes. Frightful Coach Accident. Five Persons Seriously Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

ONE of the most terrible mail coach accidents of which the annals of the colony present any record happened yesterday about three miles out of Queanbeyan on the Cooma Read…

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Local News and Notes. the Late Coach Accident. Death of One of the Passengers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 2

OUR readers will be quite prepared, from the almost hopeless character of previous reports, to hear that the frightful injuries inflicted on young Walsh by the capsizal of the mail coach…

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The Late Coach Accident, the Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1884 · page 2

THE coroner's inquest, initiated, as our readers have been informed, last Saturday week, touching the death of William Walsh, one of the victims of the recent mail-coach accident, was,…

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Three Coach Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 July 1884 · page 2

As the mailbags were being transferred from the Cooma Post Office to the Sydney mail coach on Sunday morning last, the horses bolted. Mr. J. Cruikshank, J.P., of…

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The Result of Intemprance—drowned in Six Inches of Water

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 July 1884 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last the town was thrown into a state of excitement, a messenger having brought the intelligence that Joseph Booth, and old resident of the district had been…

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Local News and Notes. Another Dreadful Explosion. Two Men, Father and Son, Killed—three Others Seriously Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 November 1884 · page 2

THE dreadful fatal accident which happened on the railway works on Tuesday afternoon, as briefly recorded in our issue on the following morning, presents details of horrible interest,…

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