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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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Terrible Rail Wreck. Collision Near Paris. Pleasure-seekers' End. Paris

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2

Further details of the disastrous railway collision, in which 11 passengers were killed and 39 injured, and which occurred last night on…

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A Mid-ocean Collision. When La Bourgogne Received Her Death-wound

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 3

We left New-York on the Saturday for Havre, with nearly eight hundred people on board, and of that great crowd nearly two hundred formed the…

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Cable News. Fatal Motor Accident. a Prince Killed. Berlin, Tuesday-Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2

Reince George,. the eldest son of the Duke pf Cumbarland, was killed in a motor accident yesterday while travelling from Mecklenburg to Copeneagen, to attend the funeral…

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Local News. Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2

AN accident of a remarkable nature occurred last Monday night. Mr. M. Anderson, who was proceeding on a bicycle to the scene of the fire at Mr. A. Shepherd's place, and who…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 2

MR. A. CLARKE met with a severe accident on Sunday last. He was engaged saddling a horse which he was breaking in at Mr. J. F. O'Brien's place at Farringdon, when the animal kicked out…

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Accident from Scalding

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 2

THE other morning Mrs R Grant met with a nasty accident at Warri, from scalding. She was boiling some meat in a pot, when the lid was blown off by the force of the…

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Another Tram Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 June 1912 · page 2

Shortly after 7 o'clock on Saturday evening a fatal tram accident occurred in George street, Sydney. Michael Savage, a laborer, was noticed to have…

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Twenty-six Men Drowned

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 June 1912 · page 2

The battleship St. Louis collided with cut in two the submarine Vendemiarire at Cherbourg, France, 26 men being drowned. The collision took place…

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Accident in Araluen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 June 1912 · page 2

A LAD named Edward Wallace, working ia Messrs Parson and Co's blacksmith shop in Araluen, yesterday had his hand caught in a drilling machine and three of his fingers were cut off. The driver…

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Fatal Accident in Araluen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 2

Mrs. NEJMIE JACOB, an aged widow, who has been for some years past carrying on business as a hawker, and travelling through the district, whilst driving in Araluen on…

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Driving Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 June 1912 · page 2

As Mr. R. L. Whitfield was driving home on the Clyde road on Sunday night the horse became frightened at the noise of a bell on a straying animal in the street, and…

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Fatal Accident at Araluen

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1912 · page 2

Mrs. Nejmic Jacob, an aged Assyrian woman, who has been for some years past carrying on business as a hawker, whilst driving in Araluen on Monday…

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Motor Car Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Shortly after 5 o'clock on Sunday evening, while returning in a motor car from the Federal Survey Camp, Mr. J. Marshall (the driver) and the Missus May…

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Fatal Accident in Araluen

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 4

MRS. NEJMIE JACOB, an aged widow, who has been for some years past carrying on business as a hawker and travelling through this district, whilst…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1912 · page 2

MISS BELL, daughter of Mrs. Bell, of Back Creek, was riding dowu Wallace-street on Wednesday afternoon, when the stirrup leather broke, and she was unseated. In…

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The Late Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 2

As the result of the accident we noticed in last issue to Miss Mand Bell through being thrown from her horse in town, she was afterwards removed to the hospital. It was found…

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Football Accidents

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

INJURIES sustained ia the game of football appear to a greater or lesser extent to be the outcome of nearly every game that is played…

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Another Railway Collision. a Head-on Impact. Smash at Wallerawang. Lithgow, Thursday Morning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1912 · page 5

A railway smash occurred at Wallerawang a few minutes after one o'clock this morning. The mail train from Sydney had…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 July 1912 · page 2

ON Saturday night last Mr. Cecil Mulligan, while enjoying himself at the pastime of skating at the local rink slipped while going round, and fell rather heavily, causing a…

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