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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

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

767 Tramway Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1912 · page 3

A return was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday of the number of tramway accidents, during the year. The number since January was stated as 767…

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Driving Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1912 · page 2

ON Monday evening Mr. Denis McGrath was returning home from Braidwood, and when about a mile on the Clyde road, opposite Mr. P. Allen's, be was thrown out of…

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Fatal Motoring Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 2

A serious motor accident occurred at Corowa on Tuesday evening whereby Mr. W. J. Knight 35, lost his life. He was returning home from town, and…

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Shocking Accident

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

A SHOCKING accident occurred in the goods lift at the Sydney Railway Station on Thursday morning, as a result of which Reginald Malone, 22, a porter, living in Bourke-street,…

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An Open Switch. Leads to Collision. Passenger and Freight Trains Fifteen Killed, Sixteen Injured. INDIANOPOLIS

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

A railway accident, involving serious loss of life, occurred here through a collision between two trains…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 November 1912 · page 2

Last Saturday morning Dr. Richardson left his wife sitting in a sulky outside the Hospital while he went in to see his patients. The horse suddenly bolted…

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Drowning

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1912 · page 4

Prof. W. S. Whitford has tenaciously asserted for 40 years that in drowning no water enters the lungs. He has been almost alone in this opinion…

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Chapter Xlvi. in Which Sam Meets with a Serious Accident, and Gets Crippled for Life

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 November 1912 · page 3

What morning is this, when Sam, waking from silver dreams to a golden reality, turns over in his bed and looks out of the open glass door;…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1912 · page 2

AN accident happened during the week to a lad named Batty, son of Mr. R. Batty, of Jembaicumbene. The lad was riding after stock at Belle Vue, where he is employed…

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Local News. Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1912 · page 2

AN accident occurred to Mr. Coffey's passenger motor car on Tuesday night last, which although it at first caused the greatest sensation in town were not of so disastrous a…

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Coaching Accident. Bolt Down Hill. Driver Loses a Foot. Bingara

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 6

A serious accident occurred to the coach plying between Bingara and Barraba yesterday evening. The driver, Dave Campbell, and four passengers were on the mail coach…

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Girl's Splendid Bravery. Saves Father from Drowning Breakers Cafsize Dinghy. Fremantle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 6

News has just reached the mainland of a dramatic incident at Rottnest Island. Lighthouse-keeper Waters set out the other day on a fishing excursion, accompanied by his…

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Sicilian Railway Accident. Twenty-five Killed, One Hundred Injured. Rome, Tuesday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 5

Twenty-five persons were killed and 100 injured by the accident which occurred to the Catonia-Messina express, which ran into a goods train owing to the mistake of a…

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Driving Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 2

An accident while out driving befel Mr. E. Torpy, of the Criterion Hotel. In company with his little son and Mr. Collie, a mining expert, he was driving down Wallace-street…

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