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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1884

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

The Mining Accident in Victoria, &C

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1884 · page 7

A CORRESPONDENT writes as follows to the Echo:—The news of one of those terrible mining accidents which too often cause a thrill of horror to run through our community reached…

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A Shocking Accident From Burning. West Ma[?]tland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 8

A SMOKING accident from burning, and one which [?]pected to terminate fatally, occurred early this morning at the residence of Richard Marshall, upho[?]er, an old resident of this…

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Restoring the Apparently Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 3

DR. AS[?]E has sent to the Newcastle Herald the rules adopted in the Royal Humane Society's system of restoring the apparently drowned. They are as follows:—…

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Frightful Coach Accident. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 5

A frightful coach accident happened at Queanbeyan yesterday afternoon. The Cooma mail coach, containing 10 adults, besides some children. was descending a steep gradient, called Stringy Bark, when the…

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A Painful Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1884 · page 4

HENRY FELKAMP is a cutter in the employ of a firm of wholesale clothiers, on the corner of Vine and Pearl streets. He is, or rather was, the possessor of a magnificent beard fifteen…

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Colonial Telegraphic News. Accident to the Steamer Queen of the South

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 8

THE C. and R. R. S. N. Company's steamer Queen of the South, from Sydney to Kempsey, struck on the Macleay bar at 10 a.m. on Friday last, but was floated off again at 10 o'clock the same night, and came to…

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Accident at Lismore. [The following messages were received too late for insertion in Saturday's issue.] Casino, Friday Evening

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1884 · page 3

There was a miraculous escape from drowning at Lismore last night. Mr. J. Bray, P.M., accompanied by Mrs. Bray and Mr. F. G. Crouch, who had left Casino that afternoon for the purpose of attending…

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