Collision at Crossing Bus Was Overcrowded
At Wodonga on Wednesday a finding of death by misadventure was recorded following the inquiry into a level-crosing collision between…
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Accidents, 1943
35 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
Man's Fortitude After Shooting Accident
With his left leg practically shot off, James Mortimer, 33-year-old vege-table fanner, of Burrawang, crawled more than 50 yards through thick…
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Mr. Richard Dempsey, the well-known stockman from Back Creek; met with a painful accident at Araluen en Thursday. The horse he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decline in Road Accidents
The fact that the number of fatalities in road accidents in N.S.W. for May, June and July was the lowest on record for those months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nelligen Man's Record Most Injured Man
Last week the extraordinary case of William Backhouse, the 25-year-old Nelligen timber man, who 'is recovering after an operation in a Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Here and There Injured When Tyre Burst
A remarkable accident occurred at. Cootamundra, which resulted in a well-known garage proprietor, Mr. R. Lloyd-Jones, being taken to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News Drowned While Trying to Save His Son
CASINO—While attempting to rescue his 10-year-old son, Arnold Arthur Whilehouse (33), railway guard, was drowned in the Richmond River,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death From Car Accident
Mr. Ernie Yum, brother of Mrs. Fonc Nomchong, of Braidwood, met with a car accident on Sunday and was conveyed to the Glen Innes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Fatality. Girl Drowned in the Queanbeyan River
The first drowning fatality this summer occurred on Wednesday after noon last. In company with two other children, Clare Britton, aged…
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"The old grey mare ain't what she, used to be." Mr. Harry McGrath, of Nowra and Strathallen, Braidwood, will agree with this. On Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirteen Wolf Cubs Drowned
On Saturday afternoon thirteen Wolf Cubs, the eldest of whom was 10, were drowned when they fell from a 12-foot punt in which 28…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision on Road Motor Car and Sulky
At Canberra Supreme Court yesterday the heating was commenced before Judge Clyne, of damage claims arising out of a collision on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Trains Wrecked 50 Killed; Many Injured LIMBERTON (North Carolina) Thursday (A.A.P.)
Two crack passenger trains were wrecked early this morning. One train was derailed and the second crashed into the wreckage a few…
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Ian Crawford, aged 15 years, of Farm 658, Griffith, was attempting to shoot a cat but accidentally shot himself in the shouldder and collapsed at…
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About 2 o’clock on Wednesday Charles Arabin Mayne, 46, a veteran of the 1914-18 war and who has only recently been discharged from the…
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