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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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How It Feels to Be Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

A medical man has recently made known his sensations when dragged under water with a sinking ship. After what appeared to be 10 or 15…

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Shocking Accident at Newcastle

The Age · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

ABOUT 6 o'clock on Saturday afternoon a boy of about 14 years name; Robert Stephen Davidson, a resident of Dizon-street, Wickham, was killed in Hunter-street West,…

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Sad Death by Drowning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

Quite a shook was caused in the town on Wednesday afternoon when it became known that Mr. William Gosling's body had been found in the waterhole used as a bathing place at the northern…

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Terrible Fatality at Hunter's Hill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

MR. G. R. M'INTOSH, who was well known in sporting circles as a crack pigeon shot, met his death on Tuesday morning at Hunter's Hill as the…

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Mining Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

On Wednesday morning an accident occurred at Stewart’s mine, Major’s Creek, which might have had serious results. It appears that while Stuart…

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The Dynamite Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The particulars of the fatality allow that Mr. G. R. McIntosh was on Tuesday morning instructing a servant in the clearing of some land which he owned at Hunter's Hill by means of dynamite. In…

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Accidents

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 2

On Friday last, an employee named Patrick Gannon, on No. 2 Consolidated dredge, Araluen, met with a very painful accident, which might have had a…

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Collision at Lodz

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 3

Two lactones at Lodz-are not paying the strikers for the days on which they were out on strike. In collision with the troops, twenty…

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Local & General. Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 2

A man named Joseph Thompson, living near Manar, was brought into the Hospital yesterday suffering from a broken leg, the result of a capsize…

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Horse Drowned in the We[?]

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 2

ON Thursday morning. Mr Isaac Blundell drove his horse in a buggy down to the weir's edge for the purpose of giving him a drink; the…

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Horse Drowned in the Weir

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon no little excitement was caused in town by the report that a horse was drowning in the weir, below the bridge. Upon…

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Accident to a Mail Drive

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 2

ON Thursday morning, while driving down a steep hill near Lawton's, on the Gunning-Gundaroo road, the mailman's horse stumbled…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

ON Saturday evening, Mrs. W. Dean sustained a painful fracture of the leg near the ankle. She slipped while attending to a dog which was…

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Accident to a Fettler

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

A RAILWAY fettler named Jones, while going his length on a trycicle, on Wednesday morning, near Bungendore, was overtaken, and run down by a special engine…

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Shooting Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

A very painful accident happened to young man named James Douoghue, aged 18, at Captain's Flat on Wednesday last. It appears that he was -out…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

A railway fettler named Jones, met with a serious accident on last Wednesday. It appears that he was proceeding along the railway line on a tricycle near…

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Captain's Flat. Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

JAMES DONOGHOE, a lad of 18 years of age, met with a terrible accident on Wednesday, while out shooting with another lad named Samuel Daniels. While the…

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Local News. Buggy Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon, a stranger drove along Maquoid-street intent on leaving Queanbeyan for the town…

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Accidents to Workers. the Great Value of Zam-buk Proved

The Age · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 3

Busy workers in all departments of labor, in the mine, on the railway, in the mill, factor, or workshop have all one great common need—a reliable "first aid" for the treatment…

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Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

Mr. Alfred Balcombe, of Buckenbour, met with rather a severe accident on Thursday last. While doing some road work, initiated by the Government for…

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