A Railway Accident
Sydney, Tuesday—An engine and two carriages were derailed yesterday, on the Kaukapakapi line, New Zealand. The engine rolled down the embankment and the…
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Accidents, 1898
95 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5
A Double Accident
A SINGULAR double accident is reported from Young. Mr. H. H. Dickson, brother of Mrs. John Knox of this town, was returning in a cart from the Wombat races,…
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GUARD HOLLIS, on the Cooma train, was unfortunate enough to get part of the middle finger on the left hand badly crushed at Tarago on Tuesday during shunting…
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Sydney, Friday—Three young girls named Adelaide Kokoschke, Florrie Crabbe, and Hilda Evans, who were swimming in the river at Renmark, South Australia, yesterday…
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Shortly before 6 o'clock on Friday evening a railway accident occurred at Parramatta Station, which it is surprising was not attended with more serious consequences…
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Last week a miner named Cornish, employed at the Kohinoor section of the of the Lake George Gold Mining Co’s Mine, was engaged in spawlling a block…
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Mrs. Donnelly, wife of the proprietor of the Miners’ Arms Hotel, had a narrow escape on Tuesday last of meeting with a serious accident. The lady was…
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A miner, named King, an employee at the Commodore Mine, met with a somewhat serious injury prior to the Xmas holidays, through a splinter from…
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On Tuesday last an accident occurred in the Lake George Company's mine, Captain's Flat, by which a man named Thomas Cornish received severe injuries to his chest and face…
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Two young men were seriously hurt at the sports which were held at Lake George on Wednesday. One of the horses in the race swerved at the finish, and ran into the…
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Peter McGarry was shot through the body in a house at Newtown yesternight. He says that he was cleaning a revolver,…
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A man named S. Russell met with an accident on Tuesday morning last whilst coming up the Copeland shaft, by getting jammed between the bucket and…
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Mr. Woore, City Coroner, on Saturday morning conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Nellie Dunn, which occurred in such a tragic…
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BUNGENDORE (job been visited by the meet disastrous flood ever known there, from Saturday to Monday over 3½ inches of rain were recorded. Monday evening was hot…
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The heavy rains seem to have brought considerable damage in its trail in almost, every part of the colony. The southern and coastal districts seemed to have come off with…
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The most disastrous flood ever known occurred in Bungendore on Tuesday night last. It had been mining from last Saturday until Monday. At 9 a.m…
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The mail train between Perth and Albany ran over a bullock. The engine was derailed, fireman Thomas Hartice being killed, and…
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A collision occurred in the harbour yesternight between the ship Ardinaloig and the steamer Macleay. The former was…
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The Gininderra correspondent of the P. Post writes -- What might have proved a serious accident befel Mrs. H. Curran on Sunday afternoon last. Mrs. and Miss…
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A serious accident occurred at 22 Turner-street. Bedford, on Sunday. A boy, aged 1 year and 11 months, named. George Piper, got hold of a jug which contained…
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