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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
43 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 3
A terrible disaster, involving a dreadful loss of life—some thirty-four souls—occurred on June 21st. at the launching of H.M.S. Albion at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A YOUNG man named Arthur Stevenson had a narrow escape from a terrible and instantaneous death at Messrs. A. and H. Ellis and Co.'s sawmills, Bellinger Heads, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual meeting of the above was hold on Monday, August 8, Mr. E. Ellis (president) in the chair. After some minor business had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. JAMES SALMON, who lived in Bellingen and at Raleigh a couple of years ago, met with a serious accident, recently in Sydney. According to letters received here it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most heartrending and revolting tragedies that has ever shocked the public mind was perpetrated on Tuesday in the upstairs premises of a shop in George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MISS M. J. MARTIN, of Fernmount, with her younger sister and Miss Elsie Ross, were driving in a sulky to Fermount on Wednesday afternoon. Going down Marx Hill the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EARLY on Sunday morning last Mr. William Lancaster, of Frederickton, met with a very bad accident, it appears he remained on board the Terara on Saturday night, instead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. George H. Pentecost, of the R.M.S. Austral, writes from Suez, under date August 23rd, as follows : " About 5 a.m. on August 20, as the Austral was on her voyage up the Red…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Monday last Mr. John Reddy,of Pine Creek, left his horse and buggy standing in front of Mr. T. Cummings residence, Bellingen. The horse cleared out, ran foul of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT might have proved a serious accident, involving the loss of valuable horses, occurred at an early hour on Saturday morning at Albury railway station. Duggan's and Earnshaw' horses,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Ellis' saw-mill, Nambueea River, last week a terriblyh painful accident occurred. The circular saw appears to have been bumpod on the side by a large piece of timber, causing the saw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREE men named Edward Parker, Thomas O'Neill, and another were engaged in blasting operations at the railway deviation works at Currabubula, near Tamworth on Monday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. E. BARTON fell at Milson's Point on Tuesday night and broke his arm. He will probably be confined to his house for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. H. A. MILES, proprietor of the Fernmount livery stables, met with a sensational accident on Sunday morning last. He had arranged to convey camp requisites and men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE reads nearly every day of accidents resulting fatally through the negligence of some person or other, yet few seem to realise that an attack of indigestion left unchecked may prove,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY morning Mr. Josiah Gibson, the lessee of the Oyster Channel ferry, was missing, under circumstances which indicate that he had been drowned. He was last seen after midnight by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday an accident occurred at Angowrie quarry, whereby a man named Lyons sustained serious injuries. A stone weighing about two cwt. fell from a truck into the quarry below,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. H. P. BALY, C.P.S. and Crown Manila Agent at Beilingen, had to visit Coff's Harbor on Wednesday, to sell the effects in the intestate of the late D. R. McCauley. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SENSATIONAL accident, and a narrow escape from death, occurred on the Dorrigo on Tuesday. Mr. George White, an old man of 66 years, was out scrub cutting for Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday Mrs. W. H. Ducat, of Jerseyville, and Mrs. Watt were driving from Arakoon to Jerseyville with a buggy and pair. On the hill near Mr. G. Cooper's the…
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