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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Fatalities and Accidents. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 3

A boat capsized in Moreton Bay on Saturday with a party of excursionists. Elsie Atthow and Willie Fielding were drowned, the others being rescued with difficulty…

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Serious Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

Mr. Thos. Kennedy, of Whteman's Creek, who has had quite a series of misfortunes during the past year or so, met with another serious accident…

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Accident to Mr. Francis

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

Mr. E. Francis, son., the well-known Grafton business man, met with a nasty accident while taking his horse and vehicle into the yard on Tuesday…

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Accidents and Fatalities

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 8

At the Shoalhaven T. C. races on Tuesday a jockey named Outturn, who hails from Sydney, was killed through the horse he was riding falling. Two girls named Jamieson, 10 and 16 years…

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Accidents and Fatalities. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 5

At the inquest on a swagman who died in Wagga hospital, the coroner recorded a finding of marder against John Marshall and Edward John Cain, who were committed for…

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Accidents

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

An accident happened to Mr. E. Francis on Tuesday. He was closing the gate after letting the horse and sulky enter the grounds at his residence, when the vehicle…

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Drowned in a Well. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 3

Miss Mobbs, a well-known resident of Carlingford, was drowned in a well at the rear of her home yesterday…

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TELEGEAMS. Boating Fatality. SYDNEY

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 3

A canoe containing a number of young people capsized at Adelaide on Saturday. The accident was witnessed by a man named Charles Arnold Coast, who rushed to the beach and struck out…

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A Cause of Drowning Explained. the Cramp Theory Wrong

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 6

The following experience occurred to Dr. Hugh Lawrie, and may throw some light upon the too frequent occurrence of drowning accidents in swimmers. He had been…

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Sad Mining Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 5

By a fall of earth in the Vlas mine, Coolgardie, W.A., yesterday, three men, named John Milroy, J. O'Brien and Frederick Christersen, were killed…

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Latest Cables. Battleships in Collision. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 5

Five American battleships, when leaving New York harbor, got into a tangle and two of them went aground. The tangle and collision were caused…

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Burning Fatality

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 8

The death of the young girl Violet English, through her clothes catching fire at a picnic party, shows how important it is that the person in such a case should be compelled…

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A Chapter of Accidents

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 4

The Manning River district is evidently a great place for accidents, etc. In one issue each, in one week, of two local papers the following accidents…

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An Ocean Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The barque Zanita reports colliding with the barque Coimbatore, 1205 tons, 207 miles off Cape Leuwin on Christmas night, when the weather…

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Serious Accidents

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

John Smith, while doing a little prospecting for alluvial gold at Yulgilbar, on Tuesday afternoon, had dug to a depth of about eight feet and…

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Two Serious Accidents

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 5

John Smith, while prospecting for alluvial gold at Yulgilbar, on Tuesday afternoon, had dug to a depth of about eight feet when a large quantity of earth fell upon him, fracturing his leg and…

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The Facts of Mr. Cooper's Accident. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1906 · page 2

Dear Sir,--The report in Thursday's issue does Mr. J. Morrissey (who was the first to find Mr. Cooper, who looked after him, and who eventually…

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Accident to Archdeacon Gunther. SYDNEY

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 3

Archdeacon Gunther was knocked down by a runaway pony with a lawn mower attached at Parramatta on Saturday night. He sustained a fracture of the small bone of the left…

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Boating Fatality. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1906 · page 5

A rowing boat containing five persons was swamped in the harbor yesterday. A young man, named Louis Little, was drowned, but the others…

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Young Man Drowned. Sydney, Wednesday. A squall upset a yacht in which two

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1906 · page 5

young men, named Robert Hall and Arnold Richardson, were sailing near Port Adelaide. Hall was drowned…

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