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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Marchioness Killed. Fatal Motor Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 3

On 8th March, the correspondent of the London “Daily Mall” wrote:— A shocking motor car accident occurred near here at five o’clock this…

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Cycling Accident

The Age · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 2

MR. A. J. GIFFORD, teacher at South Goulburn public school, met with an accident on Saturday while proceeding with several friends to inspect the…

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Collision on the “Distrior.”

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 5

LINES BLOCKED FOR FOUR HOURS Serious delay (writes the “Westminster Gazette” of 22nd March), was caused to passengers on the District…

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Peculiar Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 6

At Longbush, Wairarapa (N.Z), a young named Syme met with an extraordinary accident. He was standing dressed in a singlet and trousers, with a bottle of kerosene in one…

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Motor Fatality. a Marchesa Killed

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 4

The Rome correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” wrote on 9th March:— Full details are now available of the tragle motor-car accident yesterday…

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Hotel Collapse. Sixty Killed Eighty Injured

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 5

From Stuttgart on 5th April, the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” wrote: A terrible disaster occurred at the "housewarming” of a new hotel in the…

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Burning Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Observer

EARLY yesterday morning Constable McCarron's little son, who is only three years of age, and always an early riser, was about before his patents were up, and…

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For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to Their Relief. Instructions

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

1.—When you approach a person drowning in the water, assure him, in a loud and firm voice, that he is safe…

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Accident to a Railway Porter

The Age · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 3

REGINALD WOODCROFT, a porter at the Cooma railway station, had a marvellous escape from death on Friday afternoon. He booked a parcel shortly…

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An Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 4

It was at 3 crowded At Home: A lady wished to pass in front of him, so the young man backed. In so doing, his heels stepped on someone’s toes,…

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A Double Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 2

A REPORT reached Corowa on Friday evening that two men named Elliott and Arrowsmith, the former being the proprietor of a wine shop at…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatality occurred near Macquarie Fields station on Saturday afternoon, when the fast train to Sydney, which arrived at Liverpool…

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Burning Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 2

One day last week Mrs. H. Williams met with an accident which could easily have ended with serious results. While attending to her…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 2

What proved a serious, and might have been a fatal accident, occurred to Mr. Robert Anderson early yesterday morning while proceeding to Araluen on…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred on the main southern railway on Saturday afternoon, an aged woman being cut to pieces by a railway engine…

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Sulky Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 2

On Wednesday, while driving to his home from Michelago, Mr. M. Egan's horse bolted, running the sulky against a small stump. The…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

Mr. D. White, of Tharwa, met with a painful accident on Friday last. Mr. White left a horse standing in a dray while he went to…

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Accident to Mr. Jack Dulhunty

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 2

Our Booroomba correspondent sends us the following, clipped from a Narandera paper of July 13: "Mr. Dulhunty, a wool-classer…

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Honeymoon Tragedy. Bride Drowned

The Age · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 4

Mrs. Maria Bells Kershaw, who had been married only a few days, was drowned at Crookham, a village on the Berkshire side of the Thames,…

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