A Fatal Accident Near Yass
A VERY serious accident happened on Saturday night, when Mr. William Higham, a fettler, was hit by a light engine about 2½ miles from the Yass Junction Station, on…
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Accidents, 1908
87 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 5
Wounded in a Duel. Fencer Injured by a Novice
A fierce duel (says "Lloyd's Weekly") was fought on the 14th May in the grounds of the Big Wheel in Paris between a young man named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned in a Balmain Street
Mrs. Margaret Brown. 69, wife of William Brown, engine fitter, residing at 103 Phillp-street, Balmain, met her death in an extraordinary manner on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Aid to the Injured
Accidents are common to every household, and it is necessary to be ready for such emergencies. A bottle of Dr. Sheldon's magnetic Liniment and roll of soft bandages will receive many a sufferer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Officers' [?] Wrecked. Two Lieutenants Killed. in a Night Collision
From Berlin, on 5th June, the correspondent of the "Daily Mall" wrote:— Lieutenant-Commander Assmann and Lieutenant Fritzsche, two well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Fatal Accident at Bondi
It was stated in our last issue that an inquiry was held by Cir[?]e Murphy into the circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Douglas, whose body were found at the foot of the cliffs at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Fatality at Broken Hill
A FATALITY occurred on Thursday morning at the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, by which Thomas Hopkins, a miner, lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mountain Adventure. an Injured Tourist. Crawls Three Miles
After the terrible experience of spending two nights on the side of a mountain in the Snowdonian range with a broken leg, a young German doctor,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two American Sailors Drowned
Two American sailors were drowned on Saturday night. Leo. L. Cassidy was approaching his ship, Georgia, when his boat capsized. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Lift Fatality
FRANK McHALE, 20, lately living in Prospect-street, Paddington, and employed as a liftman at Messrs. Edwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Fatality at Mongarlowe
A DREADFUL occurrence is reported from Mongarlowe, near Braidwood. On Saturday morning a man named David…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Accident. As It Might Be. I.
An old man was walking along Regent street. He is dressed shabbily, and he is tired. He is nearly eighty, and he stoops as he shuffles through the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Naval Collision
"Instead of resolutely setting to work to cure a growing evil fraught with peril to the country, the British Admiralty have (according to "Public Opinion")…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Painful Accident
A lad named William Ebsworthy, aged 51, met with a painful accident in the vicinity of Mt. Glahstoue, near Cooma, on Saturday. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pea-rifle Accident
A REPORT from Cooma yesterday states that a young man named Herbert Thornton has been treated at the Hospital there for a bullet wound…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to Staff-sergeant Richards
As Staff-Sergeant Richards, of the 3rd Australian Light Horse, was journeying to Braidwood on Saturday morning on his motor bicycle he sustained a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner's Courts. a Lost Tooth. Fatality of the Dentist's Chair
A strange fatal accident after a dental operation was described at an inquest yesterday (July 21) at Lambeth on the body of Mrs Mary Sarah Daking,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Street Accident. Man's Stubborn Wound of 15 Years' Standing Yields Only to Zam-buk Balm
SELDOM a day passes without a street accident of one kind or another. A fall from a tram, a kick from a house, a tumble off a bicycle through a side-slip…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →B d Results of Tran Accident. The Case of Mrs. Mackie
Nothing but good can result in giving to the public some hint as to the various incidents in which Mrs. Kate mackie, of No. 2 Stanley-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dream That Came True Foresees His Own Drowning
The story of a dream and its tragic realisation is causing a sensation among the fishing folk in the South Devon port of Brixham…
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