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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1904

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Chinaman Saved From Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 8

A plucky rescue from drowning was effected by John Mitchell, engineer of the steam lunch Bellambi. As his vessel was rounding Dawes Point, a Chinaman…

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Accidents

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1904 · page 8

A little daughter of Mr. W. Neale, of Spring-street, also met with a painful accident on Thursday, slipping on to a tomahawk and inflicting a nasty…

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Terrible Fatality. Mother and Two Daughters Burned to Death. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 July 1904 · page 3

A terrible burning fatality occurred at Exeter last night, when the residence of a farmer named Thomas Hunnisett was…

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Terrible Burning Fatality

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 2

A TERRIBLE burning fatality occurred at Exeter on Friday night, when the residence of a farmer , named Thomas Hun[?] was totally destroyed by fire. Mrs Hunnisett and two of her…

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Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 8 July 1904 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon last, while returning from Dorrigo, Mrs. Bryant, of Fernmount, narrowly escaped being killed, through the vehicle she was driving capsizing. Mrs…

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Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 July 1904 · page 2

An accident happened on the Junction road on Saturday, when Mrs Haynes, of Carr's Creek, accompanied by several for her children, when driving home. The vahicle collided with…

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Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1904 · page 4

A serious accident occurred on the racecourse yesterday during the running of the Grafton Handicap, when a jockey named Jordan, who was riding Flight…

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Steamer and Whale Collision. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 25 July 1904 · page 3

Whilst on her passage from Clarence River last night, the steamer Kyogle collided with a whale off Smoky Cape, the impact being a…

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Terrible Burning Fatality

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1904 · page 2

AN awful burning accident occurred at North Creek, near Ballina, on Friday morning, resulting in the death of a girl named Gretchen Rinschanbach, 6½ years old. It appears that while…

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The Late Race Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 July 1904 · page 2

Air. Editor.—Year by year the accidents befal. with now and then a human sacrifice to King Sport; and transient laments, and the game goes on. One would think…

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Serious Accident

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 August 1904 · page 4

A BOY, of about 14, named William Cameron, son of Mrs. Cameron, of Wharf-street, Ulmarra, who is employed by Mr. T. Small met with a very serious accident on Monday afternoon,…

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Fatal Accidents. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 August 1904 · page 3

Claude Baker, aged 40, was working a circular saw at a box factory tit the Glebe to-day when a piece of wood shot up and pierced…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 1

TWEED HERALD reports a dreadful accident at Mullumbimby last Wed-nesday afternoon to a five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Cook…

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Disastrous Collision. Twenty Lives Lost. (From Reuter's Company.) London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 5

Saturday night was hazy and stormy. Eighty miles to the south-west of Fastnet, the Loch Carron collied with the Inverkip, bound from Australia for…

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Burning Fatality

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 1

Another sad burning accident is reported from the Richmond River, as having occurred at Nimbin on Friday last, by which a girl named Agnes…

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Accident

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 5

WHILE working at tho dock on Wednesday, Mr. Angus Cameron met with a very [?] acci-dent. He had sharpened a large 2-inch chisel and placed it down point upwards. In the…

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The Inverkip-loch Carron Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 4

Further particulars of this disaster state that the collision occurred on Saturday night off the Irish Coast. The night was hazy and stormy, and the Inverkip was on a voyage from…

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Chapter of Accidents

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 August 1904 · page 2

On Saturday a man named H. .J. Casran was brought to the local hospital from Yulgilbar suffering from a crushed face, the result of a riding accident…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 5

Information reached town yesterday that a girl named Morrow was accidentally shot by her brother with a pea rifla, and tiied shortly aftr. The Morrows live on [?] creek…

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Latest Telegrams. Another Railway Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1904 · page 5

The body of a Chinaman named Lu Chun was found on the railway line near Canterbury last night in a terribly mutilated condition…

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