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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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[?]Errible Accident in a Mine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 June 1899 · page 3

[?] SHOCKING occurrence took place on [?] Monday night at the Great Northern [?]mine, Eaglehawk, Melbourne. Two miners, named Robert de Greaves and…

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Fatal Accident at Araluen

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 3

A SHOCKING accident happened at Araluen on Monday last when a son of Mr. Oliver Shipway, aged 3, was so severely burnt that he died next…

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Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 3

AT about'5 o'clock, on Thursday evening a boy named William Pike, 9 years of age, was run over by a train at the Hannell-street level…

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Nelligen. Gun Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 2

A boy named Sidney Buckley met with a serious accidents on Friday afternoon. While trying to extract a jambed cartridge from a gun, he foolishly tried to drive an…

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Accident at Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 3

WE regret to hear of a painful accident which befel Mrs. John McInnes of Kowen on Wednesday morning. Her daughter, Mrs. Synott, was returning to her husband…

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Accident to Mr. R. Hassall

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 2

The many friends of Mr. Rowland Hassall will regret to learn that during his late visit to Sydney, he met with an accident which might, have been very serious in its consequences. It…

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Local and General. Collision in Port Philip

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 2

There was a serious collision in the Melbourne Harbour on Tuesday, in a fog, between the ships Excelsior and Edina. Both vessels carried a large number of…

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A Sensational Railway Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2

A serious accident occurred on the West Walls. and Coal Company's line on Wednesday night. It appears that a train of about thirty coal-laden trucks and a carriage with six passengers left the…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Fla Miner. Wednesday, July 19, 1899. Local and General. a Strange Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2

A serious railway accident, fortunately unattended with fatal results, occurred on Wednesday evening. The train leaving West Wallsend, timed to reach Cockle Creek…

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Double Burning Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 August 1899 · page 2

AT Lakelands, near Dapto, two children were burned to death last Friday. At an inquest held next day the evidence disclosed that they resided with their parents in a…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Monday. Shooting Fatality

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1899 · page 2

At Warra[?] on Saturday while some children were playing at robbers a little boy shot his sister dead. telluride Or[?]…

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Fatal Accident. Crushed Beneath a Dray

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 2

NEWS came to hand yesterday of an accident near Tharwa by which a promising young man of 18--Luke, son of MR. Luke Tierney, an old and much respected settler…

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Suicide by Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.—A young woman named Nelly Batley dived through the bathroom port holeon the steamer Le Annan, in the Dunedin Harbour, yesterday, and was drowned. The…

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A Bush Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 2

A very sad accident is reported from the other side of the Murrumbidgee River. It appears that on Tuesday two sons of Mr Luke Tiernan, of Freshford, near Tharwa,…

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Accident at the Bridge

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 2

ANOTHER accident happened to Mr. James French, foreman over the works at the bridge. It appears he was engaged in lifting some iron plates, when one of them…

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The Bush Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 2

The inquest as [?] cause of death of the [?] lake T [?] was held at the residence [?] faces, Freshford, Tharwa, [?] before Co[?]oner Downing…

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Death by Drowning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 2

ON Wednesday the body of Alfred Morris Dalby was found floating in the ocean between Bronte and Waverley cemetery. Deceased came to Sydney from Newcastle…

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Suicide by Drowning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 3

A VERY old resident of Aral[?]en named Mr. Michael O'Dea committed suicide on Monday morning by drowning. He left a note behind saying that he was weary of life…

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Sad Blasting Fatality

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 3

While several men belonging to the Permanent Force were engaged in a pit preparatory to blowing up an electric light pedestal at Mahunga Bay Submarine Mining Depot on Wellington Harbour, a…

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A Terrible Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 2

A MAN and his son had a terrible experience last Monday near Keiwa, on the Victorian side of the Murray. It appears they were camped in the bush…

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