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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1901

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Thursday. Another Railway Fatality

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 2

Cecil Dove a ship’s steward, was killed on the railway [?] at Milson’s Point. He had both legs cut off. The Arbitration Bill…

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Reminiscences of Queanbeyan. Drowning of Old Residents. (To the Editor of the Queanbeyan Observer.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 2

SIR, -- In the early part of 1851, or perhaps previously, Mr. Gregory, a very promising young deacon a son of a late prothonotary, took charge of a portion of the Queanbeyan…

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Lucky Accidents

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 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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Is Genius an Accident?

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons? It is the question of heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an expert…

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Painful Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 2

WHILST rabbit shooting on Friday afternoon a son of Mr. W. Kelly, of Micalag[?], was the victim of a painful accident. It appears that the youth was engaged doing…

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Serious Gun Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

The already very large list of gun accidents has been added to by one from our own district. On Friday, as Mr James Kelly, a young man of about 19 years of…

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Mall Coach Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 2

JAMES LONG, the driver of the Gulgong-Gilgandra mail coach, was killed on Wednesday afternoon. The coach did not arrive at Cobbora at the usual time on Wednesday…

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Ways of Living. Accidents That Sink Ships

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 1

THERE is quite an element of comedy,' said a member of Lloyd's, in some of the accidents which send ships to the…

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Is Genius an Accident?

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 3

Are first sons more likely to be great than second or third sons ? It is the question of' heredity over again, but it has been dealt with lately in an interesting way by an expert…

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A Hero Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 2

Mr John Sly, foreman of the railroad staff of the Silverton Tramway, met with serious accident to-day, in an heroic attempt to save a child. A woman was wheeling a…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 September 1901 · page 2

LAST Sunday the mailman from Brindabella to Coolamon Plains (writes a correspondent) had a very narrow escape from being drowned. Owing to the previous…

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Fearful Railway Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 September 1901 · page 3

A railway accident occurred on Friday afternoon near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, adjacent to Jolimont, and almost in the same spot whore the frightful…

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Accident with a Rifle

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

DURING a sham fight near St. Patrick's College, Goulburn, on Saturday evening, between members of G and E Companies Corporal Victor Gould, son of Mr. W…

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A Racing Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

A WELL-KNOWN Riverina jockey, William Jordan, met with a serious accident at the Wangaratta races on Saturday. He had won the Trial. Stakes on La Regina, and…

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Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Another accident, in the form of a broken leg was admitted into the Hospital on Saturday from Major’s Creek. It appears that on Friday evening two brothers,…

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Accident with a Rifle

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 September 1901 · page 2

During the sham fight near St. Patrick's College, on Saturday evening, between members of G and E companies, Corporal Victor Gould, son of Mr W. Gould, late…

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Painful Burning Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

AT Albury on Friday the wife of Dr. Muller met with a painful accident. She was in engaged in dressing a air of kid gloves with benzine, and by some means the…

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Traveller. Street Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 2

AS the vessel that is continually taken to the well is sure to be broken at last, so with most people who go to and fro among…

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Coach Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 2

YESTERDAY, Mr. Gus. Kaye, driver of the yass mail, met with an accident, the exact nature of which we could not ascertain. All we could gather was that whilst return…

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A Coaching Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 October 1901 · page 2

An accident happened on Wednesday to the driver of the Yass coach, Gus Kaye, which has been followed by a serious injury. It appears that when young Kaye…

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