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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Accident to the Coom Mail Train. Brakes Prevent Disaster Carriages Dragged Nearly Two Miles

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 2

Joppa Junction, about four miles from Goulburn, and where the Cooma line connects with the main southern line, was the scene of a peculiar railway accident…

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Derailment at Joppa-Junction. Accident to Cooma Mail

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 2

A MARVELLOUS escape from what might have proved one of the most disastrous catastrophes in the history of the State, occurred at…

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Serious Train Accident. Connecting Rod Becomes Disjointed. What Might Have Been

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 2

A railway accident occurred early on Sunday morning four miles from where the Cooma line connects with the main southern line. The connecting rod on the side of the…

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To Prevent Collision

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 5

In consequence of the frequency railway collisions in various parts of the Western (State) Railway, which forms part of the Newhaven-Dieppe…

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Railway Fatality. at Yass Junction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 2

SHORTLY after the arrival of the Limited Express train at Yass Junction from Sydney, at 1.40 o'clock yesterday morning, a fatal accident occurred, the…

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Motor Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 2

THERE motor car travellers, on their way to Sydney, pulled up at the Royal Hotel, Yass, on Wednesday afternoon. Subsequently, they proceeded to…

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Drowned in 18 Inches of Water

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 May 1914 · page 4

William Banham, and old and well-to-do farmer, of Spring-hill. Orange, was found dead in 18 inches of water at the back of a circus tent on…

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MELBOURNE, Monday. Terrible Mining Accident Seven Men Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1914 · page 4

A terrible mining disaster occurred on Saturday night at the Great Extended Hustlers mine, Bendigo. Twelve men were working at the…

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Mill Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 2

Harold William Roberts, 20 years of age, was killed in the mill-house on the Proprietary Mine on Sunday morning. He was caught between the…

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Motorist's Distressing Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 4

MR. W. R. GLASSON, owner Brigalowtation, near Orange, and a well-known New South Wales motorists, had the misfortune on Friday, to run over his…

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Dairying. Renovating Paspalum. An Accident and Its Consequences

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 4

According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, the Department's advocacy of the renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by…

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Engine Strikes Trolly. One Man Killed. Five Others Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 2

Shortly after 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning an express goads train from Goulburn crashed into a trolly load of man near Bowral.. One man was killed and five others…

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Joppa Accident Recalled. Why Communication Failed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 May 1914 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

IT will be remembered that when the railway accident occurred at Joppa some weeks ago the passengers in the derailed carriage were unable to communicate with the guard…

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Remarkable Fatality. Man and Woman Balled

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 2

Two persons, a man and a woman, were fatally injured by the same motor car in Parramatta road, Leichhardt, on Saturday night…

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Curious Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 9 June 1914 · page 1

Peasauts found the body of a young man who had committed suicide lying in a forest path near Geneva, Switzerland. He had a…

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A Chapter of Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 2

On Monday afternoon, while Dr. and Mrs. Kerr were motoring along the Cooma road, about 4 miles from town, the latter in charge of the steering gear, the car became…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Mr. DAVE PERROTT had an exciting experience on Tuesday. He was driving five hoises attached to a waggon containing two tons of loading, down the 20,milo bill towards the…

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Another Collision During Dense Fog

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1914 · page 2

The steamer New York has sent a wireless massage that the Hamburg American liner Pretoria collided with her during a dense fog…

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