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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

87 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5

No Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 6

The boy was sitting on the pavement, crying bitterly. "How did it happen?" asked a sympathetic gentleman who chanced to be…

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Murrurundi Railway Accident. the Board's Finding

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 2

IT will be recollected that after the big railway smash at Murrurundi just before Easter, when so many were injured and much damage done to the rolling…

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Collision at Bellambi

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident occurred last Thursday when Thompson Bennett was fatally injured in a collision at the Bellambi tram line crossing. A…

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A Tragic Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 6

After facing death scores of times and thrilling vast audiences twice daily by looping the loop in a motor-car, Mrs Mitzel Morok, a pretty woman of 19…

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Fatal Motoring Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2

A MOTOR, containing A. Z. Clark[?] a mining engineer, and his driver, Archibald Hall, whilst on the [?]ad from Macedon to Melbourne, on…

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Another Motor Car Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 5

Henry Weller, 37, employed as a groom by a doctor in Lyons Terrace, Liverpool-street, Sydney, was run over by a motor car and killed on Saturday evening. He was…

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Motor Car Fatality. One Occupant Killed. Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 5

A fatal motor accident, in which Mr. A. Z. Clark, a well-known mining engineer, was killed, occurred on the Mount Alexander-road at Digger's Rest, this afternoon. The…

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A Human Chain. Lad Saved From Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 June 1908 · page 3

A human chain of twelve girls and boys saved George Richards from drowing in the Morris canal, near Richfield, N.J…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 June 1908 · page 2

MR. WALTER FORD, railway guard, experienced a painful railway accident at Queanbeyan railway station on Tuesday morning. While shunting…

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Eighty Celestials Drowned

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 3

WHILE on the voyage from Hongkong to Canton the British steamer Powan went ashore on the coast. Eighty Chinese passengers, were…

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Fatality in a Mine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 3

A FATAL accident occurred in the Brilliant Stockholm mine at Charters Towers on Wednesday night. A miner, Daniel Carney, was working…

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Preventing Railway Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 2

JAMES KRISS, a Gundagai blacksmith, has invented an apparatus which he claims will minimise the danger of railway accidents similar…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 3

AN extraordinary accident happened to a young man named Stanley Seymour on Thursday at West Maitland. He was walking through a lucerne…

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Motor Disaster. Plunge Over Bridge. Seven Killed and Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 3

A motor-car accident in the heart of Turin last night (12th March) caused the death of two young ladies, fatal wounds to a third, and fearful injuries…

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Doctor's Mistake. Verdict: Accidental Death

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 4

The story of, a doctor's fatal mistake was told at an inquest at the Public Hall, Canning Town, on 10th April, reports the "Dally Mail" of they 11th, on…

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Terrible Burning Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 3

THIS morning Mr. Coroner Gale held an inquest at the house of Mr. Nicholas McInnes, sen., on a child named Mary Juliet Woods two years of age,…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 2

THIS morning, at the residence of Mr. Nicol McInnes, Mr. Coroner Gale conducted an inquest into the circumstances resulting in the death of Mary Julia Woods, a child two…

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Railway Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 2

AT 4.45 on Monday morning Samuel H. Cumming, a railway porter at Newtown, found the mutilated remains of a woman on the down fast line, about 130 yards from the…

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Mysterious Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 3

THE mangled body of a woman was found yesterday on the railway line near the Newtown railway station. On Sunday night when the express…

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Fatal Accident at a Colliery

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 July 1908 · page 2

A YOUNG man named Robert Carter, aged 19 years, was killed at the Wallsend Colliery tunnel on Saturday. At 12.30 p.m. a truck of small coal…

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