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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 July 1897 · page 3

A shocking railway accident is reported from Denmark. An express train running on the Nord Sj[?]landske Jernbane,…

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Accident at a Hare Drive

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 2

At a hare drive given by Mr. P. Carroll an accident occurred which happily was not attended so far with serious results. A youth in his wild excitement evidently mistook Mr…

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Accident to Lady Brasseyand the Hon. Miss Brand

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 July 1897 · page 2

As Lady Brassey and the Hon. Dorothy Brand were driving along Elizabeth-street Melbourne, Wednesday afternoon, a horse and cart dashed across the street right into…

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A Mining Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 July 1897 · page 2

By a fall in the Stockton mine on Thursday morning a man named W. Hughes met his death. As soon as it became known that Hughes was out off from his fellow workmen…

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Fearful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 31 July 1897 · page 2

A man named George Thomas Kearsley had a narrow escape from instant death shortly before midnight on Tuesday at Peter sham by the train which left Redfern at 11.35…

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Wreck of the Tasmania. Six Sailors Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 August 1897 · page 2

On Thursday night, the magnificent, new steamer, the Tasmania, trading between Sydney and the New Zealand ports, struck on a rock near Table Cape, New Zealand…

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A Domestic Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 August 1897 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Graham, proprietress of the Royal Hotel and formally of local Railway Refreshment Rooms, was engaged hanging some curtains, when…

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Fatal Accident to a Bungendore Lad

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 August 1897 · page 2

LAST Saturday a lad named John Garnham was run over by a train in Sydney and both his legs wars severed below the knee. The unfortunate lad was at once removed…

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Local News. Accident to a Miner

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 August 1897 · page 2

A MINER named James Berrigan, of Bywoug, met with a severe accident at that place last Tuesday. It appears he was in the act of putting a fuse into a detonator,…

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Cablegrams. Terrible Accident in Russia. London, August 6

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 August 1897 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident is reported from Russia. While 400 women were disporting themselves in a swimming bath at…

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Terrible Accident at Hobart. the Patient Sent Over to Sydney Hospital

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 August 1897 · page 4

Advices to hand convey the news of a terrible accident having befallen a well-known and highly respected resident of Hobart. The unfortunate sufferer has, as the result of her…

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A Road Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 August 1897 · page 2

An expensive accident happened on Friday to Mr T. Bambridge, a carrier on the Nelligen Queanbeyan road. He was driving a pair of horses up a pretty stiff incline, when…

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Accident to a Local Carrier

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 August 1897 · page 2

ON Friday evening last Thomas Bambridge had the misfortune to have his dray and horses with the loading he had on, bodily capsize over the Sugarloaf Mountain whilst…

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Fatal Accident at Warrambucca

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 2

Mr.J.W. Bunn, J.P., held a coroner's inquest on Monday before a jury of six at the residence of Mr. A. Carpenter, of Warrambuces, touching the death of a miner named Edward Bright Cates, who was…

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Serious Railway Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 2

A serious accident, which was, fortunately, unattended with loss of life, happened to a goods train which was proceeding west from Katoomba about 3 o'clock on Monday morning. The train…

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A Billville Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

We are pained to have to record an annoying, if not serious, accident that happened to our wife the other day while she was returning from the…

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Boating Accident. Five Lives Lost

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2

The sailing boat Zenebia capsized off Cape Morton, Queensland coast, on Wednesday, and was washed ashore at Noosa…

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Captain's Flat. ACCIDENT

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 2

Whilst riding his bicycle on Friday last, and trying his pace with a friend, Mr W. Herbert, Jun, got very bad fall through running over a dog. He was Pitched about…

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Five Persons Drowned

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 September 1897 · page 3

A LATER telegram from Tewantin states that the Zenobia was struck by a squall at midday on Wednesday last off Cape Moreton. The sheet…

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Accident to a Hunter

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 September 1897 · page 2

MR. ALF. THORNE'S well-known jumping horse Harkaway by the Prior, when returning from the Burrawang show on the 18th. met with a very saver accident. It is said…

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