Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

44 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

The Bega Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 August 1909 · page 6

Mr. Shaw, P.M., held an inquiry on Tuesday morning into the cause of the death of Mary Pauline Cleaver. Mrs. Mary Jane Forster deposed : Live in…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Fall of Stone. Ganger Badly Injured. Lithgow

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 2

James Ab[?]alom, one of the gangers in charge of No. 6 tunnel at the Zig-Zag deviation works, met with a very serious accident at 7 o'clock on Wednesday night. He was standing on a trestle in the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Women Rescue Drowning Chinese. Crossing a Flooded Stream. Glen Innes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 2

A Chinese carter was wished down in the Beardy River yesterday. He attempted to cross the flooded stream. After being carried some distances he clung to a willow tree Mrs Do[?]ld was driving…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon (says the Moruya Examiner) whilst jumping Pagola, minus saddle and bridle, over a fence at the Criterion Hotel Mr. V. McCauley met with a painful accident…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 2

A girl, seven years of age, a daughter of Mr. J. Banmgardaer, of Major's Creek, wm brought into Dr. Llewellyn on Sunday last for treatment for a broken thigh. She and her sister were out driving…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Shooting Fatality at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 September 1909 · page 2

The Corener, W. J. Chapman, Esq., held an inquest at Major's Greek, which commenced on Friday last and was not concluded until the following day, regarding the death…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

White City Accident. Smash on Alpine Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 September 1909 · page 3

The accident on the Alpine railway at the White City, in which nine people were injured, was referred to at Tuesday's meeting (June 29) of the London…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 September 1909 · page 2

AN accident of a rather painful nature happened to Mr. John Rankin on Wednesday last. He was engaged drawing a load of timber from the saw mills at Reidsdale, and when coming down a hill…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

White City Accident. Smash on Alpine Railway

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 3

The accident on the Alpine railway at the White City, in which nine people were injured, was referred to at Tuesday's meeting (June 29) of the London…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A Boy Drowned in Ara[?]en

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 2

A boy named William [?] 13 years of age, was found drowned in a waterhole at Redbank [?] He was weak minded from birth and had to be continually watched, his mother looking after him…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cecil Hardy's Accident Proves Fatal

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 2

THE heroic conduct of young Cecil E. Hardy, reported in our columns a week ago, and deservedly circulated by many of our contemporaries, has, after a week's suffering and the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Another Pea Rifle Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 October 1909 · page 2

A party of mining managers had assembled at the residence of Mr. Mueller at Ravenswood near Bendigo to make him a presentation upon his recent marriage, when one of them, a Mr. Brown…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

BICYCLE Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 October 1909 · page 2

Mr. W.- SEBBENS, of Monkittee, was coming home on Saturday evening from Araluen, where be is employed on a dredge, when he was thrown from his bike a couple of miles from the town, through…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Kitchen Accidents. Zam-buk the Ever-ready Soother and Healer

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 October 1909 · page 2

ACCIDENTS in the kitchen are many, and every housewife and domestic should always keep a pot of Zam-Buk handy for the prompt treatment of the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Accident to a Child

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 November 1909 · page 2

A two year old son of Mr, R. Torpy's, licenses of the Criterion Hotel, was run over by a horse in the yard of the hotel an Sunday morning and knocked down insensible. The child was badly…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Honeymoon Tragedy. Bride Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1909 · page 3

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

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Sad Drowning Fatality at Goulburn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 November 1909 · page 5

A young man named Ollie Heazlett, 18 years of age, employed on the railway as a tinsmith, was drowned in the Wollondilly River…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Surf Tragedy. Two Brothers Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 5

A heavy sea running at Cronulla on Monday morning was responsible for a bad tragedy, two brothers losing their lives while bathing in the surf…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Drowned Boy Mystery. Mother Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 November 1909 · page 3

A strange story, the outcome of which was that a woman named Louisa Tiffin was charged with the wilful murder of her six-year-old son William, was told at a Hackney…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

Mr. RUDOLPH MATER, Acting Secretary of the Stock Board, met with an accident od Wednesday evening by his horse falling in riding across the bridge or culvert or whatever the tumble down…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →