Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Innisfail QATB

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Cairns Post
Mon 15 April 1929

Innisfail and District Accidents

Our Innisfail correspondent states that John Liles, aged 19, met with a perculiar accident. He is a labourer out of work and resides at Goondi Bend. Liles was tying up a cow when the animal pulled away from him and he received a lacerated wound on the right hand through being cut with a piece of tin. The ambulance gave first-aid treatment and then conveyed the sufferer to the hospital.

Edward Crampton, aged 45, a butcher working for Trembath Bros. also met with an accident under perculiar circumstances. He was cutting up meat when another employee spoke to him. Crampton turned around and in doing so the knife slipped and severed the radial artery of the left wrist. First aid was given by the Ambulance and the sufferer taken to a doctor, thence to a private hospital.

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QATB Clermont Centre

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The Capricornian
Sat 6 Nov 1897

The Accident at Clermont
Full Details

One of the saddest accidents that has occurred in the history of modern Clermont happened last night at the Town Hall, says the Peak Downs Telegram of the 29th October. The Quadrille Assembly had arranged to hold its last night of the season, which had been a very successful one. Everything was provided, therefore, to make the wind-up of the season a brilliant success.

At half-past eight there was a rush to the gallery; before a quarter to nine that gallery was down on the floor of the hall, its timbers shivered as though it had been built of match-box wood – a very wreck. It was a flimsy structure, to say the least of it, and how it has carried the crowds of people we have seen in it we do not know. But it

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Beware the "honk machines" … QATB Babinda Centre 1949

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Cairns Post
Friday 31 Dec 1920

Babinda Notes

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Our roads and bridges in particular have been receiving some comment of late, and are (the bridges) being designated as veritable death traps, but all the same, wind explosions, or pen efforts, will not alter the pace of the owners of honk machines who smillingly negotiate the said death traps at racing speed. Posts and wires were securely placed on all these bridges, but had to be removed owing to the formidable amount of debris and logs that are carried along by the flood waters, and find resting places against the many bridges that span those streams.

The Babinda structure receives an unusual amount of timber, and on several occasions the chance of its demolition seemed a sure thing. All measures and precautions may be made for the prevention of accidents, but the fact remains that accidents will occur and at

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