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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

137 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 7

A Drowning Mystery. Who Were They?

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 4

A terrible river tragedy occurred in the Cliveden Reach of the Thames yesterday afternoon, a lady and gentleman, whose names are unknown, being…

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Tram Collision in Sydney

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 5

A collision took place shortly after 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning at the Haymarket, as a result of which some tram passengers and the driver of a horse and van…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Age · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, at the local Court-house, Mr. Coroner Gale conducted an inquest into the circumstances resulting in the death of a man named John Ward, who…

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First Aid to the Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 2

Accidents are common to every household, and it is necessary to be ready for such emergencies. A bottle of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Li[?]ment and a roll of soft bandages will relieve many a sufferer…

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Railway Fatality

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 2

By the derailing of an excursion train near Toronto (Canada) 6 men were killed and 50 injured…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 2

A wire from Melbourne reports a serious railway accident near Bendigo. A goods train ran into a siding where some trucks were standing. The engine was…

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Drowning. How It Feels

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 5

It falls to the lot of few medical men to be claimed by Davy Jones and ye? to slip through his fingers Such an experience is never to be forgotten…

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Motor Boat Accident. a Lady Drowned

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 5

Dr Rawson, director of education for the county, of Worcester, recently purchased a new motor-boat, and took it for its first spin on the Severn yesterday…

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Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 2

Yesterday, at the Public School, during the 11, O’clock recess, one of the scholars, named Joseph Madden, had the misfortune whilst playing to dislocate his…

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Latest Wlres. Sydney, Thursday. Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 2

Thomas Drinan, a grazier in a large way, after recording his vote at Moree on Tuesday was killed on his way home by colliding with a tree at Terry-hie-hie…

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Unfortunate Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2

We regret to have to record an unfortunate accident which befel Mr. H. F. Maddrell on Friday morning. While superintending the fixing of a…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 September 1907 · page 2

NEWS has been received from Port Darwin, Northern Territory, that Mr. Pearce Smith met with an accident resulting in a badly broken leg…

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Awful Mining Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1907 · page 2

A cage containing seventeen miners fell a distance of 700 feet in a mine attached to Jones and McLaugblan's steel works, Negaume, Michigan…

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Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 2

One day last week, while Mr. J. H. Byrne, Nithsdale, was chasing a horse on the homestead, the stirrup leather broke,. resulting in Ins being thrown,…

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Stockwhip Saves Man From Drowning

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1907 · page 2

A sensational occurrence took place at M.Cully;s Crossing Hunter River. A young married man named William Copeland was driving a, horse and sulky…

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Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1907 · page 2

On Thursday last, while Mr. Philip Flanagan, Reidsdale, was cutting down willows to feed his cattle, a limb of a tree fell on him across his stomach,…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 2

A SOMEWHAT singular accident happened on Wednesday afternoon to a waggon, drawn by a team of horses, belonging to Mr. J. Ryan, of…

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Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 2

William B. Young, a porter, was crushed to death between the buffers of railway trucks at Carrathool railway station…

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Buggy Accident. a Squatter Killed. Gulgong

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 6

A shocking buggy accident happened at Tucklan, 20 miles from Gulgong, yesterday. Michael and Alexander Shannon were driving a pair of horses, and when they were…

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Fatality on the Railway

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 25 October 1907 · page 2

John Day, a ganger in the railway permanent way staff for the Moss Vale length, was accidentally killed a short…

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