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Accidents, 1893

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Fatal Burning Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 2

Whilst playing with matches on Thursday a little girl, the daughter of Mr. J. Tho,pson, Macquoid-street, Queanbeyan, set fire to her dress, and burned herself so badly…

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Horrible Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

A terrible accident happened as Saturday evening rai[?] Cooma came down the grading just above Woden. A fettler named Albert Yeomans left Queanbeyan station on…

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A Naval Catastrophe. NEARLY 400 DROWNED

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 June 1893 · page 2

News comes by cable of a terrible disaster in which HMS. Victora (flagship of the Mediterranean squadron) was run into and sunk off the coast of Tripoli, South Africa,…

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