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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

107 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

Mining Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 2

The Delegate correspondent of the Manaro Mercury writes:—Mr Glenville Brown had a miraculous escape last Thursday. A mining company are about to test and prospect…

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Nasty Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 2

On Monday last Mr Henry Gerathiy, of Cathcart, met with a very painful accident. He was cutting timber at Mt Marshall when the axe handle broke and the head of the…

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Sulky Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 June 1901 · page 2

Last Saturday evening Mr Wm. Oldfield, with his wife and child, were returning from Sutton in a sulky. On coming to a pool of water along the road, the horse Mr…

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To Revive the Drowned. The Laborde Method

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 2

There is a new way of pumping air into the lungs of a drowned man, or, what is really important, a half-drowned man. It is called the Laborde method, and…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Monday. Fatal Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 2

The [?] remains of an aged man named John Mallon were found on the Milson’s Point railway line. The head was completely severed from the body…

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Sulky Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 2

As Mr and Mrs J. Wall, of Tuggranong, were driving home last Tuesday, from Queanbeyan, the horse in the vehicle shied, bringing one wheel on to a bank at the…

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Serious Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 1

After a serious railway accident recently the injured passengers were taken to a station close at hand as fast as they could be freed from the…

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Serious Railway Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 1

After a serious railway accident recently the injured passengers were taken to a station close at band as fast as they could be freed from the…

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Shooting Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

A SERIOUS gun accident occurred at Wellington on Saturday afternoon. A party of five boys were shooting in the paddock of Nanima estate. They were using a…

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Accidents

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1901 · page 2

A sailor on board the I.S.N. Co.’s steamer Eden had the misfortune to have his foot crushed almost to a pulp recently though a cask of tallow falling on it…

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Drowned in a Well

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 31 July 1901 · page 2

On Tuesday, about noon, another death, of a startling nature, occurred in town. It was that of the grandson of Mr J. Gale. The little fellow, two years of age, George…

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Shooting Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 31 July 1901 · page 2

Two lads, sons of Sergeant Canning of Captain's Flat, were out shooting one day last week. They had bandoliers of cartridges strapped across their shoulders. One…

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Buggy Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 August 1901 · page 2

An unpleasant mishap occurred to Mr J. Southwell, of Carrington, Hall, last Sunday. Accompanied by his wife, their baby, and two ladies, they were going to Wattle Park…

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The Quirindi Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 14 August 1901 · page 2

The following details of the startling accident at Quirindi have come to hand since the brief telegram report in our last issue…

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A Terrible Burning Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

HAPPENED near Muttama, Gundagai, on Thursday night. Two Assyrian hawkers, brothers, were camped in a tout for tho night, when a gust of wind set their camp…

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Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

Mr Davis Wright met with a rather severe accident last Sunday morning. He had gone on horseback across the bridge after a cow, and on returning stopped nearly…

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Strange Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

A SAD accident occured at Forbes on Friday night last, and resulted fatally on Sunday. The Town Hall was well filled to witness the entertainment of Bertram. At the…

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Shooting Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

A DREADFUL shooting accident occurred in the Singleton district on Monday evening. A man named John Yates, of Broke, near Singleton, was out opossum shooting with…

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Lucky Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 1

A lady, who, with her children, had intended journeying to the Channel Islands by the ill-fated Stella, slipped as she was entering the cab that was to…

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A Riding Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 2

On Sunday morning information was received at the Goulburn police station that Mr. James Coleman, of Bangalore, was found on Saturday afternoon lying on the…

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