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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Another Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 2

A shooting accident, under extremely sad circumstances, took place on Tuesday afternoon at Malvern, the victim being a lad named Bertie Douglas. He was…

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Another Shooting Accident

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 2

A shooting accident, under extremely sad circumstances, took a place on Tuesday afternoon at Malvern, the victim being a lad named Bertie Do[?]glas. He was…

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Dreadful Colliery Accident near Newcastle

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 March 1898 · page 2

Yesterday a terrible colliery accident was reported to have occurred at the Dudley Pit, and later news confirmed the tidings. It appears that yesterday morning the men…

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Accidents

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

On Wednesday night Thomas Casey, a tapper at the s[?]elting works met with a painful accident. He was engaged in cleaning one of the feed pipes of a water…

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Dreadful Colliery Accident near Newscastle

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 4

Yesterday a terrible colliery accident was reported to have occurred at the [?]dley Pit, and later news confirmed the tidings. It appears that yesterday morning the men…

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Fatal Accident at the George Street Markets

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

The fortunate immunity from fatal accidents which has hitherto marked the progress of the erection of the new markets in George-street was broken on…

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Fatal Accident at the George Street Markets

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 3

The fortunate immunity from fatal accidents which has hither to market the progress of the [?]orction of the new markets in George-street was broken on…

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Fatal Lift Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 2

A terrible occurrence, followed by loss of life, took place at the Queen Victoria Markets at noon on Tuesday. It seems that a few minutes after noon some eight men were…

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Six Children Drowned

The Queanbeyan Observer · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 3

News of a sad catastrophe comes from Kent Town, Adelaide. It appears that Francis Chapman, Herbert Millewsky, H. Ford, W. Evans Kenneth Thompson,…

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Six Children Drowned

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 2

NEWS of a sad catastrophe comes from Kent Town, Adelaide. It appears that Francis Chapman Herbert Millewsky, H. [?]rd, W. Evens Kenneth Thompson,…

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Accidental

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 2

An Interesting story is told of the Princess of Wales, who seated one day in her box at a performance of comic opera at a certain fashionable theatre…

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Mining Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 2

At Captain's Flat last Friday two men were badly injured in the company's mines. E. Thompson, while looking down the main shaft, had the scalp torn from the back of…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 April 1898 · page 2

Mr. Charles McDermott, of Six Mile Flat, suddenly ended his days on Friday last meeting with an accident of a very peculiar nature, the news of which was immediately brought to town by his…

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Accident at Captain's Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 April 1898 · page 2

Two men were badly injured in the company's mines at Captain's Flat on Friday. E Thompson, while looking down the main shaft, bad the scalp torn from the back of…

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Mining Accident

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 2

At Captain’s Flat last Friday two men were badly injured in the company’s smile. E Thompson, while looking down the main shaft, had the scalp torn from the back of…

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Accident at Captain's Flat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 2

On Monday last a man named Peter Knight, a miner, had a miraculous escape from death. It appears that he and two other men were engaged in blasting…

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Serious Accident

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 2

On Monday last a man named Peter Knight, a minor, had a miraculous escape from death. It appears that be and two other men were engaged in blasting…

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Mining Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 2

DAN O'CONNELL, the well-known boxer, and a tapper employed at the Lake George Company's reduction works, Captain's Flat, met with a nasty accident last week. It…

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Mining Accident

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

DAN O’CONNELL, the well-known boxer, and a tapper employed al the Lake George Company’s reduction works, Captain’s Flat met with a nasty accident last week. It…

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An Extraordinary Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 May 1898 · page 2

A peculiar accident happened. to Mr Baynes, the booking clerk at the Goulburn railway station Thursday night. In the stationmaster's absence he attended to the…

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