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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1902

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

Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 2

Statistics show that in fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. Further evidence of this fact is supplied…

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Where Accidents Happen

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 September 1902 · page 2

According to the experience of the accident insurance companies about the safest place for a man to be is in a train or abroad an ocean…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

The Penzause express collided with an engine that was being shunted. Many of the passengers were severely wounded, and the driver had his skull fractured…

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Rescued from Drowning by a Seal

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 4

Some time ago there were two seals in the Zoological Gardens at Amsterdam which were so fond of their keeper that they would recognise his voice a long way off and…

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Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 2

Mr. Callan, a resident of Ballalaba, is reported to have met with a rather painful accident yesterday. While engaged driving some cattle across a bank of earth, his horse…

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A Collision

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 24 October 1902 · page 2

The steamers [?] and Willyama collided in the harbour last night the former being considerably damaged…

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Terrible Football Disaster in Glasgow. Great Loss of Life. Over 250 Persons Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 2

An accident unparalleled in the history of football marred the International match between England and Scotland, which took place recently…

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Slight Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 2

When the last of the gyests were leaving the Guildhall banquest, a gas pipe over the entrance burst, causing a conflagration. Thirty-two fire engines were quickly on the…

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Accidents

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 November 1902 · page 2

On Monday a son of Mr. J as. Doyle, Moukittee, while playing at school; fell on a glass, bottle [?] a nasty gash in the leg The little chap pluckily walked home adistance…

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Two Boys Drowned at Goulburn

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 November 1902 · page 2

Two little boys, named Aubrey Carlyle Blyton and Eric Suann, whose parents reside at Garfield, Goulburn, were drowned in the Mulwarree on Monday afternoon…

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Painful Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 November 1902 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon last, Amy, youngest daughter of Mr. A. McIntosh of this town., was feeding a chaff cutter at Mr. George Morton's residence when her left hand was…

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Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1902 · page 2

We hear a young man named Hart met with a nasty accident at Cookanulla on Sunday It appears that company with a companion he was engaged in driving stock, when his…

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Shocking Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1902 · page 3

A report reached the Nowra police on Thursday night that a boy aged 9, named Hammer, son of an employee at the light house station, had that evening fallen over…

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Science. the Accident of Choking

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

CONTINUING our occasional papers on ambulance, or first-aid treatment of accidents, we may to-day consider the question of choking…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1902 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, while Mr. Robert Geelan was getting into his buggy he caught hold of the guard iron to help him [?] found that his arm between the elbow and…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 December 1902 · page 2

On Xmas day an excursion train collided with a goods train at Ontario, Canada, by which 25 persons were killed, and 30 injured, many fatally…

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