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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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The Junee Railway Fatality. Death of Porter Webb. Junee

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 2

The Coroner's inquiry into the Heath of the railway porter. Charles Stuart Parnell Webb, was held this morning before the District Coroner, (Mr. F. A. Cummina.)…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 2

Mr. James Case, of Gundaroo, had the misfortune last week to sustain a fracture of his left leg. He was engaged fixing a tarpaulin over a load of chaff…

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Peculiar Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 6

A PECULIAR accident happened in a Goulburn residence last week. A lamp had been placed on the mantelpiece near a large plate glass mirror. The…

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Out Collision Mats! a Command at Sea That Is Quickly Obeyed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

In the accounts of the collision between the gigantic White Star liner Olympic and H.M.S. Hawke, it was set out that as the cruiser came…

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Many Persons Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1912 · page 5

One hundred persons were thrown into the water at Bulgen (Germany) owing to a rail breaking. Many were drowned…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 5

As the result of a railway collision on the Central Brazlian rail way 100 persons $vere either killed or injured…

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Drowning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 3

A long distance swimmer correcting popular errors states that accidents to swimmers are seldom due to cramp, but to apoplexy resulting from…

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Sensational Tram Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 5

Twenty-three deaths have occurred from tramway accidents. On Friday morning William Todd was run down by a tramcar in…

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A Bad Bump. Shunting Accident Excursion Train Collides with Buffers. Many Seriously Injured. London, Tuesday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 6

A sensational railway mishap, in which a number of persons received injuries of a more or less serious nature, occurred to-day at…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 August 1912 · page 2

On Saturday last, Mr. Alexander McDonald, 87 years of age, an old resident of this district, in going over the Suspension Bridge, placed his stick down…

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Motor Accident. Five Persons Injured an Overturned Car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 August 1912 · page 5

A motor accident occurred in Byron-street, Inverell, on Saturday evening, in which four adults and a baby were injured…

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Accident to a Child

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 August 1912 · page 2

A BABY of five months, the daughter of Mr. Wallace, engine diver, now employed in [?], but formerly a miner at Mongarlowe where his wife still resides, was severely…

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Naval Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 August 1912 · page 3

"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")…

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Curious Accident on Popular Line

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 August 1912 · page 4

"In a closely-packed carriage of the Dover line the lamp overhead, which had just been lit, fell, among other things, upon the face of a beautiful,…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 August 1912 · page 2

LAST week Mr. R. G. Hassall, of "Caloola", bad a rather severe fall off his horse, severely hurting himself. It is understood that blood [?] subsequently developed in one of…

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Girl Disappears. Supposed to Be Drowned. Dalton

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 2

A drowning accident has occurred at Jerrawa Creek, about two miles from here. Miss Eleanor Stone, the…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

A collision between an express and another train at the Caledonian Road Station on the Piccadilly Tube resulted in 18 persons being…

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Injured in Railway Smash

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

Up to last night 93 persons had intimated to the Victorian Railway Department that they had been injured in the recent smash…

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Hart Injured. Four Doctors in Attendance. Windsor, Thursday Afternoon

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 2

Dr. Hinder, of Summer Hill, and Dr. Kearney, of Parrmatta, were in consultat on with Drs. Hunter and Fullerton at the Windsor Hospital this morning, concerning…

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Fire Damp. Colliery Explosion. Miners Terribly Mangled. Heavy Fatality List. London

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

The Clarence Coal Mine, Bethune Arras, was the scene of a fearful disaster yesterday. Owing to an explosion of…

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