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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1862

3 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Appalling Accident at Edinburgh

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1862 · page 3

ON the morning of Sunday, November 24, at tall building, of seven stories, in High-street, Edinburgh, a district thicklyl populated by the working classes, suddenly fell, burying…

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Appalling Colliery Accident. Death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons. (From the Home News.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1862 · page 3

WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has…

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Disastrous Collision in the Channel—loss of Sixteen Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1862 · page 4

THE following extract is quoted by the Empire from a Plymouth paper of the 16th August, announcing a collision in the English Channel a few days previously, it will be read with much interest, the Daphne and…

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