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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

30 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Melancholy Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 7

AN inquest was h[?]ld on Wednesday morning at Tighe's Currency Lass Hotel, Pitt-street, touching the death of one Thomas Doyle, lying dead at the Herald Office. After the body had been viewed, the following…

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Extraordinary Fatal Accident in New Zealand

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 6

THE following particulars of the very distressing accident which happened at midday on Tuesday week, in the neighbourhood of the Ajax mine, Inungnhuu, are given by the…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1875 · page 3

ONE of the most terrible railroad accidents that has ever happened in Chili occurred recently on the Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. As a train from Valparaiso was passing over the bridge…

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Fatal Accident to Captain Forster

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 4

A futal accident happened on Monday (says the Argus) at Duke's Dry Dock, on the south bank of the Yarra, below the falls, to Captain John Forster, master of the steamer…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 4

A SHOCKING and fatal accident accurred on the Great Western Railway, at Penrith, on Tuesday morning, to assistant-guard Peter Flynn. After the arrival of the 10 o'clock up-goods, a train which was standing…

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The Frightful Accident by Fire at Wallaroy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 4

AT the inquiry into the circumstances attending the melancholy death of Mr Henry Lee, before J. C. Stanger, Esq., the coroner for Bathurst, the following evidence was taken:—…

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Fatal Boat Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 3

THE Tasmanian Tribune reports a fatal boat accident which occurred at Hobart Town on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a waterman's boat left town for Kangaroo Point. The…

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M'grath's Accident. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of the 30th ultimo, I observe that the statements respecting the manner in which poor M'Grath, whose Christian name is Peter and not Patrick, sustained the injuries he did, are incorrect,…

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Collision with a Whale

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1875 · page 2

THE London 'Times' states--As the Cunard mail steamer Scythia, which left Liverpool for New York, was-proceeding off Roche's Point, on the South Irish coast, she struck against a whale. The whale was seen…

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Loss of the Steamship Pacific. Two Hundres Persons Drowned. (From the San Francisco Chronicle, November 9.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1875 · page 2

THE American ship Messenger, Captain F. G. Gilkey, arrived nine days from San Francisco at Port Townsend, and reports picking up a part of the pilot-house twenty miles south of Cape Flattery, and Henry…

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