Fearful Loss by Drowning
London, Monday—The steamer S[?]racuse has been wrecked off the Cornish coast, and 40 persons drowned…
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Accidents, 1897
78 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 4
A Bicycling Accident
A serious accident happened on Wednesday to George Meedham and William McCombe. They were training on the Association track and were being paced by…
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A boy named John Daniel Douglas met with a fatal accident near Major's Creek on Sunday last through being through being thrown from a horse. The coroner, J. W. Bunn, Eaq., held an inquest on the body on…
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The wife of a settler named Hope, at Hutt, rear Wellington, her stepdaughter, and a little child were found drowned in the Auckland river last Thursday. Mrs…
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WE regret to hear that Mr. J. W. Cook of Canberra has again met with an accident exactly similar to that which, so severely injured him twelve months ago…
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An accident, so unique in its character, and at the same time so sad, as to make it an incident of general interest, occurred on January 25, just outside of Shamokin, a…
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A CONDUCTOR of a tram named Matthew Williams, an experienced official, was killed almost instantly shortly before noon yesterday at the entrance to the Bridge-street…
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On Monday last an accident of a some what serious nature happened to a two-year-old son of Mr J. Fitzgerald, of Tuggranong It appears that the little fellow was playing…
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Sydney, Tuesday—While several lads were out shooting yesterday near Bathurst a charge from a gun entered the abdomen of one named Larkins, inflicting injuries which…
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Mr E. F. Reynolds, plumber and tinsmith, who for some time has been working at Captain's Flat, met with a very serious accident on Saturday last. It appears that…
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MR. P. P. MAHER, a Braidwood rider, met with an accident last Saturday while journeying to Queanbeyan on his bike. In descending the hill on to the Molongle…
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Mr P. P. Maher, a Braidwood storekeeper, met with an accident on Saturday last while journeying to Queanbeyan (says the Braidwood Dispatch). In descending the steep…
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Sydney, Tuesday—A young man, name unknown, was knocked down and shockingly mutilated by a train at Port Melbourne yesternight. Death was instantaneous…
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ON Wednesday evening a fireman named Powell, engaged on one of the stock trains, received severe injuries through being struck on the head by a projection on an…
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A sad railway accident happened on the Cooma branch line on Wednesday afternoon, so serious indeed that it is feared it will end. fatally. The victim was a fireman named…
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A shocking tram accident, resulting in the death of a man named Sydney Adelphus Primrose, occurred last Friday night at the intersection of Market and…
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SOME few days ago, Mr Harman, of Majura, left his work in a paddock to go to his dinner previously giving the horse he was using his feed in a nosebag. There…
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An analysis of 2000 accident policies on which benefices were paid shows 531 persons injured by falls on pavements, 243 by carriages or waggons, 75 by horse…
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MR. E. J. PERRY, forwarding agent and carrier, of Temora, was run over and killed by the mail train at Cootamundra on Friday night. His body was found on Saturday…
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A terrible accident happened at Bathurst yesterday. A man named Daniel Moore was feeding a chaff cutter when one of his…
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