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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
19 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
THE following is an account of the death of Percy Edward Flint, who was accidentally shot, near Jelloar Creek, whilst wallaby shooting. Deceased was one of a party of four, and left Nattai late on the evening of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Orient Steam Navigation Company's steamer Chimborazo, from London, ran on the Manon Reef, S.E. from the Troubridge Lighthouse, on Sunday at 3 a.m. The weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FEARFUL shipping disaster occurred at Spezzia on November 24. The steamer Ortigia, belonging to the Florio Company, came into collision with the French Messsgeries boat Oncle Joseph,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SALT Lake, Utah, January 14,—The Tribune's correspondent at Alta Utah, funishes the following particulars of a great storm and disastrous snowslides at that place last night:—The storm here to-day has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE read frequently (says a contemporary) of the drowning of good swimmers, who suddenly sink in the water without any apparent cause. The common explanation of such an accident is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →VALUADLE discoveries have been made and valuable inventions suggested by the veriest accidents. An alchemist, while seeking to discover a mixture of earths that would make the most durable crucibles, one day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the time that tide was at its proper height in the river Thames on April 2, the wind raised waves of considerable size, rendering the use of outrigged and small rowing boats considerable dangerous. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE shock of earthquake occurred on April 3 at Chio, which destroyed many houses in the town and left the greater part of them in a ruinous condition. A large number of the inhabitants have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT excitement was created in the city early this morning on its becoming known that a large barque had gone ashore off Wollongong, and further news was anxiously waited for. Shortly, after 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARTICULARS of a shocking case of drowning is to hand from Queensland. Two children named Gertrude Barnett aged six years, and Florence Barnett aged two years, daughters of the manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Melbourne, on Tuesday, to the Brighton express train. When the express was approaching Jolimont, the axle of the engine broke, and several of the carriages fell over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SAN Francisco papers atate that the accident on the Morelos Railway, late on the evening of Friday, June 25, loses none of its horror through receipt of more accurate advices. The scene of the catastrophe was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM files of the Cape News we have particulars of the Union Co's sto[?]iner Tu[?]t[?] and the drowning of 242 persons. The quarter master Mr. Krowm, gives the following particulars:--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CORRESPONDENT makes the following valuable suggestions to Truth as the means of preventing drowning "I wish to show how drowning might, under ordinary circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONSTABLE Biffin, who, by instructions, went to Chandler's Creek, to make inquiry into the circumstances of the death of the man recently mentioned by us, reports the body was found in about five feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ship's company of H.M.C.S. Cerberus was mus[?]ered on the quarter-deck of that vessel at Melbourne for the witnessing a demonstration of the Howard method of resto[?]ing the apparently drowned, by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE French papers publish statistics to show that in Prussia the railway authorities annually kill one in 21½ millions of their passengers and wound one in every 4 millions; in Belguim…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your columns has appeared the correspondence between the committee of the Grafton Hospital and myself, anent the above fund, and I do not doubt but that you will courteously allow me space in your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE City Coroner commenced an inquiry on Friday afternoon, into the circumstances connected with the death of John Boyle, Herbert Banger, and Benjamin Dowell, who met their death at Mr Monk's…
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