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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

95 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5

Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 2

LAST Monday morning as Mr. -- Robertson was riding along to his duties at Canberia school the horse he was riding stumbled and fell, and so severely injured his rider's…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 2

Mr. Richard Pearse met with a painful, accident last week at his selection, Norongo. He was engaged in carting timber when the loader slowed, round while going…

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Fatal Gun Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 August 1898 · page 2

A Queensland black boy, in the employ of Mr. Scott, of Mulloon, was out wallaby shooting on Thursday afternoon and as he did not return home search was made for…

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Sewage Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 August 1898 · page 3

ANOTHER sewage fatality occurred at Melbourne at an early hour on Tuesday morning. Five men were employed in a tunnel at a depth of 50ft…

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A Strange Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 August 1898 · page 3

ON Monday morning at the adjourned inquiry at Sunny Corner touching the death of Dorothy Irene Bradley, who was found dead in bed on the…

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Sensational Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 August 1898 · page 3

A SENSATIONAL, accident occurred about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning to a live stook train five miles north of Hornsby Junction. The…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 August 1898 · page 2

A man named Joshua Noyle was admitted to the hospital on Sunday suffering from broken ribs and general shock caused by his being thrown from a cart. It…

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School Teacher Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 3

Sydney, Tuesday.—Miss Annie Macinness public school. teacher, was drowned in attempting to cross a flooded stream on her way to Lostock, near Paterson…

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Fatal Accident at Baulkham Hills

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 2

ON Tuesday a fatal accident occurred at Baulkham Hills. Mrs: Andrews, wife of Mr. John Andrews, a fruitgrower, residing at Kellyville, was…

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A Serious Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Herbert Schafer was brought into Cooma on Friday, he having met with a serious accident whilst wallaby-shooting at Jimenbuan. It seems he fired…

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Great Fortunes Made by Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 4

If there is anything that makes a poor toiling man happy it is to read about flukes that have made fortunes. For in tance, these was a captain of a vessel plying between…

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Captain's Flat. Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

A very painful accident, and one that might easily have resulted fatally, happened on Wednesday, when Mr J. Pol[?] had his right leg broken below the knee. Having…

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District Intelligence. Gundaroo. ACCIDENT

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

Mr David Lees, living near town, met with a painful accident on last week, having the misfortune to trip while getting through a wire fence, which resulted in a broken…

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Bungendore. ACCIDENT

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 2

LAST week a young lad named Taylor, who is apprenticed to Mr. McKie, carpenter, met with a severe accident. Whilst engaged cutting a piece of timber with a tomahawk…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 3

A SAD drowning fatality occurred at Horsham, Melbourne, on Tuesday afternoon. Two brothers. Edward West, aged 12, and Charles West, aged 10, while bathing in a…

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An Injured Hand

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 2

ONE of the foremen smelters at Captain's Flat, Mr. Frank Temlinson, met with a serious accident to one of his hands last Wednesday, which necessitated his going to…

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A Serious Accident. Crushed Between Trucks

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 2

Early on Friday morning a very serious accident happened to a young man named Earnest Siebert, aged about twenty. The exact nature of the injuries are not yet…

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Local News. Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 2

LAST Friday morning young man named Ernest Siobert, in the employ of Mr. Thos. Buttle, [?]te with a painful accident. He was engaged in removing some goods off a…

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Horrible Tram Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 November 1898 · page 2

ABOUT half-past five on Wednesday afternoon a young man, employed by Beale and Co., and supposed to be named Jackson, was in the act of boarding a Leichhardt…

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Accident at Carrington Building. a Runway Horse Collides with the Balcony Posts. Half the Structure Wrecked

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 November 1898 · page 2

ABOUT seven p.m. on Wednesday a violent crash was heard half over the town, and a blinding cloud of dust arose and obscured the intersection of Monaro and Crawford…

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