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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Steamers in Collision. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 August 1905 · page 3

The Union steamer Whangape, inward from New Zealand, collided with the steamer South Australian at 9 o'clock last night, but…

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Maclean Drowning Case

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 2

On Sunday morning the body of Thomas Cosgrove, who disappeared in the river at the Criterion wharf, Maclean, on the night of the 26th July, was found in the river opposite…

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Latest Cables. Fatal Railway Collision. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 August 1905 · page 5

Through a railway collision in Prussia, twenty people have been killed…

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Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 2

ON Friday last Mr. Frank Coghlan met with an accident which might have been more serious. It appears he was engaged felling scrub with another man on Mr. R. Dowle's…

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Serious Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 August 1905 · page 4

About 5 p.m. yesterday Mrs. Stuckhill, of the Orara, had the misfortune to have her skull fractured through a limb of a tree falling on her. She was brought to Smith Grafton, and…

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A Sad Fatality

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1905 · page 2

On Friday afternoon, about half-past-four, returning home from South Grafton, Mrs. Stackhill, of the Orara, met with an accident which resulted a…

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Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1905 · page 2

The four-year-old son of Mr. J. Mitchell, the well-known South Grafton sculler, met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. The little…

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Fatal Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 4

The accident that happened to Mrs. Stackhill on Friday, as reporter in our Saturday's issue, terminated fatally on Saturday. Deceased was driving home from…

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The Late Fatal Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1905 · page 2

On Wednesday an inquiry was hold at the Court House, before the coroner, Mr. Fitzhardinge touching the death of Augusta. Siacheel, who died on Saturday…

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A Shunting Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 21 August 1905 · page 3

While shunting in the Perth railway yard a man named Edward Jenkins fell under a truck and the wheels cut him to…

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Supposed Fatality

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 2

WHAT appears to be a fataliy happened at Bellinger Heads oil Thursday morning, of last week. From what we can learn on the most authentic evidence, it seems that…

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Newspaper Proprietor Injured

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 28 August 1905 · page 2

On Wednesday last, while returning from Glen Innes with a local football team, Mr. S. H. Wickerson, thre proprietor of the Armidale "Argus," was…

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Double Fatality at Kalgoorlie

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—At Kalgoorlie on Saturday a shocking mining fatality occurred, involving the death of two men at the Lake View Consols mine. Both deceased…

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A Shooting Fatality. Sydney, Wednesday night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1905 · page 5

Richard Howard, son of the late Canon Howard, was out shooting with Messrs. Rea and Millgate at Casino when his gun accidently went off and…

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The Heads Fatality

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

ALL doubts as to the fate of the young man James were removed by the finding of his body on. the North Beach Bellingen Heads. last Sunday morning The body was founded reply…

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Narrow Escape From a Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 10

A sensational incident occurred in Farm Cove, Sydney, while the Austrian warship Panther was proceeding to sea. The Panther was being…

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Big Railway Fatality. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 September 1905 · page 3

The Great Eastern Railway Express has been wrecked near Colchester, 10 persons being killed and 20 injured. LONDON, Saturday Night…

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Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 September 1905 · page 2

Mr. Duncan Beatson, son of Mr. D. Beatson, of South Grafton, met with rather an unpleasant experience on Saturday evening last and narrowly…

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Disastrous Railway Accident. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 5

Six women and four men were killed by a railway accident at Witham, and 50 injured. The train was approuching Witham at full speed, when a carriage became…

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Fatal Accident at Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 5

CORAMBA, Monday.—A fatal accident occurred at West Branch yesterday. While Mr. Finley Kerr, his wife, and two children were driving home from church near…

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