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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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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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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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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