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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

95 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5

Local News. a Sad Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 2

ON Sunday morning last word was brought into town that Mr. A. Frehan, teacher of the Jembaicumbene Public School, had been found dead on the Major's Creek road, lying…

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Three Men Killed. Crushed to Death. Fall of Ground in Barrier Mine. Accident a Mystery. Broken-hill

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 2

Another terrible mining catastrophe occurred this morning—this time in the North mine. Among the men who went underground at midnight to carry one their…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 2

Miss McKENNY, the well known Goulburn girl rider, who has completed at Braidwood shows, met with an accident on the Goulburn showground on Friday afternoon. At…

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Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 March 1913 · page 2

What might have been a very serious accident happened to a young man named Jack Nath at Bungendore. He was standing on the pole of a waggon driving a horse…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 2

An accident which may have been attended with serious results occurred in Wallace-street on Thursday afternoon last. Mr. Jack Justin was going down the Jew's hill…

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Driving Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, as Mr. A. R. McVittie, M.A. who is in temporary charge of the Presbyterian Church at Queanbeyan. was driving a sulky along…

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Accident to the Rev. Mr. M'vittie

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon, as Mr. M'Vittie minister in temporary charge of the Presbyterian Church at Queanbeyan, was driving a sulky along Lowe Street…

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Motor Smash. Men Seriously Injured. Marvellous Escape

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 4

A sensational collision between a motor car and a tram occurred about 11 o'clock on Friday night at West Maitland. Two men were…

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Accidents will Happen. Butcher Gashes His Fingers.—Zam-Buk Recommended by Chemist Effects Grand Cure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 2

"My husband is a butcher, and one day while cutting a carcase the knife slipped, inflicting a terrible cut across the four…

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Family Tragedy. Father Shoots His Son Wife and Another Son Injured. MELBOURNE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 4

A shocking tragedy occurred a few minutes before 8 o'clook this morning at Ballarat, when a man named Percy Coates shot his wife, who is now, in a critical…

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Serious Affray in Goulburn Gaol. Walker Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 2

A serious affray is reported from Goulburn Gaol. [?] that city on Monday regarding an alleged sensational episode in which [?] and sudden death…

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Loaded Gun Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 2

At Craigie, a village a few miles from Bombala, on Thursday, Hie wife of a settler named Herbert Elton was shot dead. Mrs. Elton, whose maiden name…

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[?]Pea Rifle Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

Another pea rifle accident occurred near the tunnel about two miles from Queanbeyan on Wednesday afternoon, when Mr. Charles Smith, an…

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In the Fog. Tainui-inca Collision. Officers' Admirable Conduct. How the Passengers Were Saved. London, Wednesday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 2

Full details of the collision between the Tainat and the Inca, off Cape Finiste re, became available with the arrival of the Garth Castle at Plymouth with the Isinui's…

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Drowning Fatality at Cotter Junction

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 June 1913 · page 2

A sad drowning fatality occurred on Saturday morning in the Murrumbidgee River at the Cotter Junction crossing, whereby a man named George Fairhurst,…

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Drowning Fatality at the Cotter Junction

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 June 1913 · page 2

NEWS was received in town on Saturday morning last of a boating accident which had that morning occurred at the Cotter-Junction by which two lives…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, June 6, 1913. Cotter Junction Drowning Fatalities. the Finding of the Bodies. Proceedings at the Coroner's Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 June 1913 · page 2

THE bodies of George Fairhurst and Charles Edward Taylor, who, as reported in our last issue, had been swept down the Murrumbidgee River…

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Drowning Fatality at the Cotter Junction

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 2

News was received in Queanbeyan on Saturday morning last of a boating accident which had that morning occurred at the Cotter…

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The Gods Angry. a Hundred Persons Drowned

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 3

Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the South Coast of China, has been swept by a disastrous whirlwind. It is estimated that in the Canton River…

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With an Axe Handle One Killed: Two Injured

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 3

An extraordinary revelation has just been made, in regard to which the Lunacy Department is observing much secrecy. On Thursday or Friday last, a…

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