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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1887

38 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2

Accident

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Wednesday 12 October 1887 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

A MISHAP to our machinery last Friday evening just as we had [?] to press, caused a delay of twelve hours [?] the publication of the Age and Mirror newspapers,…

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Accident

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

A LITTLE boy, son of Mr. Follett of Molonglo, met with a painful accident a few days ago. In some unexplained manmor first joints of two fingers of the…

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Shocking Fatality at Gininderra. Gored to Death by a Bull

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Saturday 29 October 1887 · page 2

A TRAGIC occurrence was reported to the police on Tuesday last Early on the morning of that day Mr. Thomas Holligan one of the old pioneers of the farming…

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Local Intelligence. Shocking Fatality at Gininderra. Gored to Death by a Bull

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 October 1887 · page 2

A TRAGIC occurrence was reported to the police on Tuesday last. Early on the morning of that day Mr. Thomas Holligan, one of the old pioneers of the farming…

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A Nasty Accident

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1887 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

A VERY nasty accident happened to a little boy aged about two years, son of Mr. Luke Colverwell of Molonglo on Thursday last. The father had been…

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Painful Accident

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Wednesday 23 November 1887 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

LAST week a man named Duncan Connell, met with a very nasty accident just as he was on the point of leaving town for Messrs. Cunningha[?] station. In…

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Railway Collision on the Western Line

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1887 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Information reached Bathurst on Thursday morning to the effect that an accident had occurred on the Western line, between three and…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1887 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

A fatal accident of a precisely similar nature to that which occur: red a few weeks ago in close proximity to the same place happened at…

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Coach Accident

The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1887 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

WE clip the following from the Monaro Mercury:—On Tuesday when the mail coach was about four miles from Queanbeyan on the road to Cooma, the box of…

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Shocking Fatality at Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 December 1887 · page 2
Also in The Bungendore Mirror and Lake George Advertiser

A TERRIFIC storm passed over Yass on Monday evening last, rain falling in torrents for about half an hour, accompanied by much electrical disturbance and…

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