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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1903

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Fatal Accident. Adelaide

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 November 1903 · page 3

While Henry Scruby and his daughter were amusing themselves by firing at a target yesterday, at Port Lincoln, South Australia,…

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Death by Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 November 1903 · page 4

An inquest was held at the Court House yesterday afternoon, before Mr. M. H. Fitzardinge, Coroner, and a jury of 12, touching the death of Ivy Cramp, 14…

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Local and General. Found Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1903 · page 4

An inquest was held at the Court-house on Monday afternoon before the Coroner and a jury on the body of the girl Cramp, whose end death was particularised in our last issue. The…

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Coronial Inquiry. Ivy Clarence Cramp. Verdict of Found Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1903 · page 6

AN INQUIRY into the cause of death of Ivy Clarence Cramp, aged 14, whose body was found floating in the Clarence River on Sunday,…

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ACCIDENT to Lord Kitchener Leg Broken, Away From Help. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1903 · page 5

While Lord Kitchener was riding alone through a highway tunnel, near Simla, his horse shied through a coolie rising suddenly from the…

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Latest Telegrams. Railway Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1903 · page 5

While crossing the railway line near Medlow, a man named Gunn was knocked down and killed by the passenger train to Orange…

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A Shocking Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1903 · page 5

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Two seamen on board the Japanese mail steamer Kasuga Maru were terribly injured this…

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Sad Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 27 November 1903 · page 2

ON Saturday last, we regret to report, a sad accident happened to Grant, a young son of Mr. W. H. Grant, of Bellingen. It appears he was playing with another boy named…

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Severely Injured. Sydney

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

While a boy named Hassett was trying to get fulminating powder out of a dynamite cap With a fork, at Gympie, Queensland, yesterday,…

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Shocking Accident. Sydney, Saturday Night

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

Daniel Bates, residing near Springwood, was accidentally shot in the head by a little boy this morning. His condition is critical…

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Serious Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 December 1903 · page 4

An accident, attended with rather serious consequences, occurred at Ulmarra yesterday morning. It appears that a sulky belonging to Mr. Archibald…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Sydney

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

Whilst a truck of quartz was being put in the Crown mine at Karangahake, New Zealand, it was accidentally precipitated down the…

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Bicycles in Collision

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 14 December 1903 · page 2

Two well-known citizens, met with a nasty accident and luckily escaped from serious injury late on Saturday night. Each had forgotten to place his lamp on…

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Accidents

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 18 December 1903 · page 2

ON Monday morning last, while a horse belonging to Mr. McMaught of the Macleay, was standing harnessed to a buggy in the yard at the Federal hotel, Bellingen,…

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Railway Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 5

While the Sydney express was passing between Moonee Ponds and Essenden Railway Stations last night a passenger named John…

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Miraculous Escape From Drowning. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 5

The mail coach capsized in the Calliope River, Queensland, yesterday, and the driver, named Fox, his wife and child, also a passenger…

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Collision in Bass Straits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 5

Early on Christmas Day, about an hour be fore daylight, Huddart, Parker and Co' s steamer Coogee, from Launceston to Melbourne, and the 2419 ton Italian…

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Boating Fatality at Lake Macquarie

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 5

Our, telegraphic news, wired from Sydney on Monday, evening last, contained brief, reference to a report of a boating fatality at Toronto, Lake Macquarie. The news…

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A Disastrous Collision. Several Lives Lost

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 2

A TERRIBLE shipping disaster was reported from Queenscliff on Saturday morning. A telegram from Queenscliff, timed…

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Tram Accident at Auckland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 8

At Auckland on Thursday, a sensational tramway accident occurred. The electric cars were conveying groat crowds of people to town, and when two cars were…

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