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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

48 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3

Drowning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 5

Mr. J. T. B. Brogan and his daughter Kathleen were drowned in the river at Moruya last week. From the account of the fatality…

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Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

Mr. George Sharpe, of Mountain Ash, Mongarlowe, met with a serious accident on Sunday morning last in a rather peculiar manner…

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THE Queanbeyan Age. Tuesday, January 11, 1921. Latest Telegraphic. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Man Drowned at Newcastle

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 2

A man named Tollfree, while fishing with his wife and three children at Redburn Beach, Newcastle, was washed off the rocks and drowned…

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Side-car Wreck Collision with Horse

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 5

An accident occurred late on Sunday night at the junction of Windellima and Bungonia roads, four miles from Goulburn. H…

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Collapse of a Slippery Dip. Several Children Injured

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 2

The staging of a contrivance known as the "Slippery Dip" collapsed suddenly last night at a carnival at Rosebery Park, and a number of children fell a distance of 40ft…

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Terrific Storm at Cooma. Jockey Drowned. Damage Estimated at Thousands of Pounds. Races Postponed

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 2

Yesterday a terrific storm broke over the town of Cooma doing immense damage a to property, fencing, store goods, etc. Just after the Trial Handicap had been…

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Shooting Accident at Captain's Flat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 January 1921 · page 2

While out shooting on Monday morning last, Mr. M. Byrne, of the Captain's Flat Hotel, was getting through a wire fence when the gun was accidentally discharged,…

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Shipping Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1921 · page 7

A schooner capsized off Wellington (New Zealand) Heads on Sunday morning. It is believed that the seven men aboard her lost their…

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Motor Car Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 7

While motoring from Hobart to Launceston yesterday one ear overturned and Lady Foreter's maid was killed. She had been with…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 3

It is with much regret that I learn of an accident which befel Mr. William O'Loughlin, one of our oldest neighbours, who was accidentally hurt at Canberra a…

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Singular Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 2

Yesterday, at the Court House, Mr. Coroner Gale held an inquest, after having viewed the body at the Hospital morgue, touching the death of Edward Finlay,…

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Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 5

As Sydney Cottington, who had just arrived from Cooma, was crossing the Goulburn railway yards at 12.55 on Wednesday morning…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 6

Mr. M. Costello, one of the Goulburn Municipal Council Council's employees, met with a painful accident on Tuesday morning, and is…

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Serious Mining Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1921 · page 5

A shocking calamity occurred on Thursday afternoon at Hoskins' Iron Mines at Cadia, 16 miles from Orange, when nine men lost their…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1921 · page 7

Mr. Tim Kennedy, of Reidsdale, met with a couple of accidents last week. Returning from Buckenbowra on Friday across the mountain…

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Sensational Racing Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 1

There was a sensational accident in the Nursery Handicap at Randwick on Monday afternoon. The field of twenty-three horses…

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Local and General News Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 2

Mr. Trevanion, senr., died on Monday morning at Nowra as a result of being thrown from a motor car in the main street on…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 2

On Friday afternoon, Eileen, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. Elias Butt, met with a severe accident. The child was playing with another…

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Late Fatal Accident at Nowra

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 3

At the inquest upon G. A. Trevanion, who was recently killed at Nowra, a verdict of accidental death was returned. It appears…

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Serious Motor-car Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

Shortly after midday last Saturday a dray laden with firewood and in charge of Mr. M. Ware, of the Federal brickyards at Yarralumla,…

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