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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Accidents

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 July 1903 · page 2

THE Rev. B. Hobson had a narrow escape from a severe accident on sunday last. He left Bielsdown after holding service there in the afternoon, notwithstanding the heavy…

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Serious Collision. In Sydney Harbor. Two Steamers Disabled. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 August 1903 · page 3

THE most serious collision that has ever occurred in the history of Port Jackson, happened a few minutes before nine o'clock last…

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Collision in Sydney Harbour

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1903 · page 5

When abreast of Goat Island on Friday night, the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Mildura and the Argus were approaching each other at affair [?]rate of speed, and a collision…

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Collision in Sydney Harbor. Serious Damage

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1903 · page 2

About 9 o'clock on Friday night the steamer Argus, outward bound to China, and the Mildurs, inward from Newcastle, collided near Goat Island, Sydney harbor. Both vessels were going at a fair rate at…

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Pathetic Drowning Case

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 August 1903 · page 3

A drowning case to reported from Meadow Creek, in Victoria. Three lads named Louis, Clifford and Paul Haynes, aged four, five and six, sons of Mr. J. Haynes,…

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Sugar Convention Bill. Terrible Railway Collision. Another Manoeuvring Fatality. Kidnapped. London, Friday. London, Saturday. LONDON, Saturday. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1903 · page 3

In the House of Commons last night, the Sugar Convention Bill, drawn up by the Brussels Conference, was read a third time by 119 A train on which a circus was travelling, collided with another train at Michegan, U.S.A., killing 19 persons and injuring 30 others. During naval manoeuvres on the cruiser Blake, the boiler exploded, killing one person and injuring six. Three masked men abducted, from an asylum in Berlin, a young girl who was the principal witness at the trial of 42 men, charged with…

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Narrabeen=Wallaroo Collision. Jury Disagree. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1903 · page 3

AFTER a nine-days' hearing, the inquest relative to the death of Thomas Rutherford, who received fatal injuries in a collision between…

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Cycling Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1903 · page 2

While descending the Bexhill hill on the way to Corndale on Monday morning (says Wednesday's Star) Mr. G. Burley, of the Lismore Post Office, had the misfortune to meet with a very…

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Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1903 · page 2

While driving homewards along Pound-[?]reet on Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Sunner had the misfortune, in trying to avoid a mud hole, to run the box of her sulky against a tree…

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Sad Tramway Accident. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1903 · page 5

A terrible accident occurred on a Sydney tramway this morning. A clerk, employed in the Crown Law Offices, named Wiseheart, was…

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Sad Shipping Fatality. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1903 · page 5

A deck of a vessel collapsed on Lake Finland and 40 people perished, besides many being injured…

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Pearl Divers Drowned. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 August 1903 · page 3

Three Japanese pearl divers have lost their lives at Thursday Island within the past week…

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Local and General. Accident

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1903 · page 2

ON Saturday evening last, Mr. J. Munro, of Tyndale, met with a rather severe accident. When returning home from Maclean along the Woodford Island side of the South Arm, the…

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Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 August 1903 · page 2

ON Sunday night last two young men, both named Cook, were cycling along the main road, in opposite ways, near Mr. J. Pollock's residence, one having a light, the other none,…

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Fatal Accident at a Bridge

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1903 · page 3

On Friday evening, a fatal accident occurred at a bridge in course of erection at Luskintyre, near Lochinvar. Mr. F. J. Carson (the contractor) and two workmen,…

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Neasly Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 31 August 1903 · page 2

A wire from Tamworth, dated Friday, reads:--A man named! James Dugan was slabbing a well, which was 80 feet deep, at Attunga, 13 miles from here, when…

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A Railway Fatality. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1903 · page 5

A train collided with a waggonette while passing over, a crossing in Somersetshire. Two excursionists were killed and several badly…

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Verdict of Accidental Death. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 September 1903 · page 5

The inquest on the body of Owen Clarke was concluded to-day. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death…

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Collision. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 September 1903 · page 3

The ship Torrens, from Australia, collided with the steamer Capulet in the river Thames. The latter sank…

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Railway Accident. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1903 · page 5

A goods train dashed into a sulky near Pymble yesterday and smashed it to pieces. Two occupants, named James Flood and George Cedridge…

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