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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

107 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6

Accident at Jembaicumbene

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 2

A rather serious accident is reported to have occurred yesterday at the Federal Co.’s works at Jembaicumbene. It seems that some alterations were in progress to the…

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Fatality at the Gap

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 2

Shortly before six o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a man, whose identity is not known, saw an elderly woman sitting near the Gap, at Watson's Bay. On looking a…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Tuesday. Shooting Fatality

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1901 · page 2

While out duck shooting yesterday in tho [?] district F, C. Campbell was accidentally. shot dead. The event caused quite a feeling of gloom…

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Another Railway Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1901 · page 2

[?] Saturday.—Another accident, illustrating the dangerous character of the Zigzag. occurred on Thursday night. It is stated that the train was a mixed…

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Latest Telegrams A Shooting Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—While out with a party duck shooting in the Mudgee district yesterday a man named Mr F. C. Campbell was accidentally shot dead…

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Burning Fatality at Dalton

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

News is sent on of a dreadful burning accident which happened in the Dalton district on Monday night (says the Yass "Tribune.") All particulars are not to hand,…

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Painful Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

YESTERDAY, Charlie, the five-year-old son of Mr. John Coppin, of Pound Hill, was amusing himself chopping bark with a sharp knife when the point of the weapon…

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The Sydenham Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 2

AT the inquest on the body of Herbert Henry Darnley, which concluded on Tuesday last, killed in the Sydenham railway disaster, the jury returned a verdict of…

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Burning Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 4

A fatal accident occurred at June on Tuesday to a four-year-old daughter of Mr Charles W. Russell, outdoor inspector on the railways. The child got out of bed about…

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Shocking Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 4

A shocking fatality occurred at a late hour on Monday at the railway lovel crossing, South Melbourne. Miss Emma Cummings, residing in Health-street, Port…

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Humorous Column. a Much Injured Man

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 7

An old farmer unjustly suspected his maid-servant of having stolen a small sum of money from a drawer in which he kept his loose cash and his beat clothes…

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Sensational Accident at Bendigo

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 2

During the testing of the new bridge at Bridge-street, Bendigo, on Tuesday evening, a sensational accident occurred, the bridge suddenly collapsing. This resulted in the shocking death of Mr. A. E…

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Tragedy at Maitland. an Accident and a Suicide

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 3

A terribly traffic shooting fatality occurred last Tuesday afternoon, at Tenambit, on the outskirts of East Maitland, by which two young lads lost their lives. Four boys…

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Fatal Racing Accident. Two Jockeys Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred at Rosebery Park races on Tuesday afternoon during the progress of the Fourteen Hands Welter Handicap, for which twelve started…

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Gun Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 May 1901 · page 2

Unfortunately we had no loss than two gun accidents in the district within the last week, writes the Murrumbateman correspondent of Yass Tubune. Mr. Percy Johnston…

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Bungendore News. Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

LATE on Monday night Mr. Bartholomew Cullen, who, resides on one of the homestead selections on the Turalla Reserve, left Bungendore for his home on a horse…

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Painful Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. W. Meredith mot with a severe accident, whilst loading goods at the railway good had. In handling a heavy case it overbalanced, falling against Mr…

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Accident to a Carrier

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 4

On Thursday morning, early, as Mr W. Meredith, the well known railway carter, was loading up at the station, he met with another accident. In packing his load…

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Humorous Column a Much Injured Man

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 1

An old farmer unjustly suspected his maid-servant of having stolen a small sum of money from a drawer in which he kept his loose cash and his best clothes…

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Execution by Drowning. a Mild Form of Death

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 1

This mode of capital punishment has not long since ceased in Europe, fend is probably still in use in other parts of the world. As early as the first century of our era, the…

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