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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

114 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6

A Sports Carnival Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

At the Victoria Park Carnival held in Goulburn on Friday afternoon last, Mr. C. P. Holloway, who had entered for the motor bicycle race, was doing a…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 2

As accident occurred to Master E Smith, son of Mr. Albert Smith, of this town, and one of the telephone attendants at the local post office, on Thursday last. He was returning…

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Awful Bad Legs. Result of Accidents. Husband and Wife Cured by Zam-buk

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 6

MR. W. J. WARD, of 244 Perth St., Subioco, Perth, W.A., says:—" While timbering in a mine at Mt. Magnet, W.A., through insufficient light, I made…

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Two Fishermen Drowned. Heroic Attempt at Rescue

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 2

Disaster overtook a fishing party at Manly on Tuesday evening. Their lost was overturned in the heavy sea and two out of the four occupants were drowned…

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Just by Accident

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 5 April 1912 · page 4

A romance that led to the making of a fortune is the following :— The held of a French printing firm was one day talking through a room in his…

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Marrow Escape from Drowning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 2

MR. M. Nash, hotel keeper, Yass, and his young son had a narrow escape from drowning on Saturday evening last. They were driving two horses, and in attempting to…

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Preventing Lift Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 April 1912 · page 2

An automatic safety installation, designed to prevent the numerous accidents liable to occur in using passenger lifts, is being placed on the…

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Circus Tent Collapsed. a Boy Killed. Several Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 4

Five hundred foreign reports of "Daily Mail" of the 8th of March, are assembled in a [?] to witness a performance by a travelling circus…

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Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 April 1912 · page 2

JUST as we were going to press we received word of two accidents. Wm. Moore, a Federal employee, while work-working at the railway, was crushed…

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Fatal Accident in Monaro-st. the Inquest

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 April 1912 · page 2

While riding on top of a loaded waggenetic last Friday afternoon, a man named Lambert Harrison fell on to the roadway in Monaro Street, and was so…

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Fatal Accident. Fall From a Waggonette. the Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 April 1912 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon the C[?] (Mr. John Gale, J P.) held an inquest at the hospital coaching the death of Lambert Harrison who, as briefly…

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Ocean Accident Company."

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 April 1912 · page 3

The following is an extract from the London "Financial Times" of February 18, 1912;—"A striking illustration of the risks run in daily life is afforded by the…

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Teacher cuts Pupil's Tongue. Says it was an Accident. MELBOURNE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 April 1912 · page 6

It has transpired that several weeks ago a female teacher at the Pleasant-street State School, Ballarat, cut the tongue of one of the…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 2

MR. J. KENNEDY (son of Mr. T. Kennedy, of Reidsdale) was cutting wood one day last week, when the axe slipped, md stuck him on the foot, inflicting a gash four inches long…

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A Motor Smash. Accident to Family Party. Richmond

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 2

On Sunday night, about dusk, Mr. J. E. James, auctioneer, of Windsor, was motoring home from Sydney, accompanied by his wife, and daughter, and a little girl friend, when…

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Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 2

THE interstate delegates on a visit to the Federal Capital site had a narrow escape from a serious accident while returning to Queanbeyan at the close…

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Explosion Under Tram. A Brisbane Accident. BRISBANE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

A tram car accident occurred in Wickham street to-night, resulting in several persons being slightly injured and a c r [?] ged. From what can be gathered something went…

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Remarkable Accident. BOGGABRI

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 May 1912 · page 6

A peculiar accident happened to Mr. David Flouitt, butcher, here. Flouitt was coming in from the slaughter yard with meat. His…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 2

At Goulburn on Tuesday night a man, named Michael Craig, employed on the duplication works, met his death in a shocking manner. It appears he was…

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Ocean Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 3

The succession of disasters at sea should rivet extra attention on the [?]eport of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, for last year. This…

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