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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

13 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

A Terrible Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 February 1889 · page 2

For some days post workmen have Uccu engaged upon the work of demolishing ai row of cement house situated in a small street named Blackburn, which is situated off Elizabeth-street and opposite…

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Sad Fatality in a Factory

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 April 1889 · page 2

The following are the particulars of the [?] occurrence on Thursday afternoon at Messrs. Cameron and Sons' new tobacco factory, in Cooper-street, Surry Hills. Three men named William…

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Terrible Railway Accident at [?]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 April 1889 · page 2

A serious railway accident, attended with the loss of two lives, and entailing considerable damage to the rolling-stock and the permanent way, occurred near [?] on Sunday morning. A mixed goods…

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Fatal Accident at Charleyong

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 2

On Sunday morning last Mr. Edwards Mortimer Travers, blacksmith of Braidwood started out for Charleyong in a spring cart with some work he had done for a party of miners on the Shoalhaven…

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Accident on the Bay Road

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2

Whilst Messrs. J. T. Murphy and Thomas; Mooney were travelling the Bay Road en route to Nowra (the former driving his four-in-hand team) by some reason or other not yet satisfactorily…

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Serious Railway Accident Near Narrandera

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 May 1889 · page 2

News was received in Sydney nu Sunday night that an accident had happened to the Jerilderie train 61/2 miles from Narrandera. The wildest rumors soon spread. Dr. Mitchell was sent for and…

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Another Railway Accident. MELBOURNE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 May 1889 · page 2

The 2.15 train from Williamstown, containing persons who had been seeing the mail steamer Parramatta off, met with a serious accident shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon al the North Melbourne…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 May 1889 · page 2

NEWS reached town by wire on Saturday last to the effect that a man named Sellick, whose family reside near Queanbeyan, but who was one of a party of…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 June 1889 · page 4

The Buenos Ayres Standard gives details of an accident which occurred on the Rosario line on March 14. It says:—"The accident occurred on the embankment near Bancalari,…

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Buggy Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 August 1889 · page 2

Mr. Moriarty, the Chairman of the Land Board, while driving from Goulburn to Braidwood on Monday, met with an accident which he was very lucky to…

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Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 August 1889 · page 2

MR. GEORGE WILSON, of Morrissett-street, was kicked by a horse on Wednesday morning, the result being a broken leg, the seat, of the injury being just…

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Accident with Firearms

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 3

On Tuesday week, while the son (aged eighteen) of Mr. James Hughes, settler residing near Taralga, was cleaning a fowlingpiece, the cartridge, which in some way had…

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Collision Off Bradley's Head. the Steamer Centennial Sunk

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 August 1889 · page 3

A COLLISION of a very serious nature occurred in the harbour, close to Bradley's Head, at 9.30 last evening (says Saturday's Echo) by which the steamer Centennial, laden with coal for…

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