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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
75 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
A TERRIBLE coaching accident occurred on the Glen Innes road in the early hours of yesterday morning, although the fact was not made known in Grafton till last evening. The mail coach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE coaching accident occurred on the Glen Innes road in the early hours of Sunday morning, although the fact was not made known in Grafton till the evening. The mail coach from Glen Innes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SAD case of accidental drowning occurred at Port Macquarie on New Year's Day, of which Master Bert. Hay ward, 11 years of age, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SAD death by accidental shooting occurred on Tuesday evening, 2nd instant, the Rev. John Fitzgerald, a Roman priest, being the victim. The reverned gentleman, who had been in delicate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Sunday morning last the driver of the Glen Innes to Grafton mail coach, Nicholas Taylor, was killed by the upsetting of the coach a little over 20 miles from Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday, Mr. A. J. Creagh, P.M., held a Magisterial enquiry, at O.B.X. Creek, into the cause of the death of Nicholas Taylor, (known as Nicholas Dix), who was found dead beneath…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUITE a gloom was cast over the district on Tuesday evening, when word reached town to the effect that Miss Florrie Gordon, eldest daughter of Mr. Lovell Gordon of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday afternoon Master Alva Murdo McLeod, of Maclean, was accidentally drowned. It appears that a number of children went bathing in the river after school. The deceased, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →You can generally chronicle about one a week and not exaggerate. The victim last week lost his life through being struck with the electric tram. The victim this time suffered as a reeult of the steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"WORD reached town on Friday evening that a man named James Kelly had been accidentally killed at Dorrigo. Kelly, who was well known throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME ten or twelve days ago Mr. W. T. Rucler, a settler at the Dorrigo, met with a painful accident through a limb off a tree falling across his back and shoulders. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While Mrs. Mannell, of Sofaln, was loading a gun the weapon accidentally went off and entered her little boy's breast. The boy was six years of age. Death was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named John M'Lachlan was cut to pieces on the railway line near Horsham (Victoria)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Friday night a fishing party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Faster, Messrs. Layton and E. Plummer, of Maclean, experienced a capsize and an immersion near the rocks at the mouth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We regret to have to report that Mr. Alister McDougall, manager of the Bank of N. S.W. at Maclean, met with an accident on Sunday morning at Grafton, whither he had gone for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE young son of Mr. J. R. Taylor, of Ulmarra, had a narrow escape from drowning on Monday afternoon. He and some other boys were bathing and skylarking in the river on the edge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday an accident occurred to one of Mr. J. M. Kelly's breadoarts at Palmer's Channel ferry. It appears that the approach is in such a condition that the punt cannot be brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Maclean cricket ground on Good Friday, Mr. James Hinchey, of Maclean, sustaining a broken jaw. Preparations were being made to commence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The cleansing of Wexford-street having been effected—the locality was far and away the dirtiest in the city—several of the owners of property in the street waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A. painful accident happened to a son of Mr. J. Skinner on Saturday last. His father was engaged getting out some stone and while lifting a…
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