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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Found Drowned

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 3

On Friday an inquest was held at Maclean before Mr. F. Schwonberg, District Coroner, touching the death of Harry Bottomley, whose body was…

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Terrible Railway Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—A train going from Arbroath, Forfarshire, to Dundee, was awaiting at Elliott Junction the signal to proceed when the North British Express…

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Found Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 2

On Friday an inquest was held at Maclean before Mr. F. Schwonbang, District Coroner, touching the death of Harry Bottomley, whose body was…

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Drowned in Baths. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 5

Eileen Fitzpatrick,aged 15, was drowned in the swimming baths at St. Kilda (Melbourne)…

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A Costly Train Accident. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 5

The wrecking of the postal van in a disaster to the Cologne-Hamburg express has caused the destruction of a large parcel of bonds involving a loss…

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Drowned While Bathing. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 5

An unknown man was drowned in the undertow at Bondi yesterday afternoon. Several narrow escapes from a similar fate are reported from…

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Disastrous Railway Collision. Nineteen Persons Killed

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 8

The Caledonia Railway Company's train from Arbroath (For farshire) to Dundee was a waiting at Elliott Junction, one and a…

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Railway Accidents. London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 5

A passenger and a goods train came into collision near washington, The deaths are between 15 and 40; 100 people were injured. An express train from Hamburg to…

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Coach Accident. Picnic Party Upset

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

It would hardly be reasonable to expect that with the very large num-ber of picuickers who visited the North Beach Reserve on New Year's…

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The Dorrigo Team Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 5

This evening (Friday) a social is to be held in School of Arts, Bellingen, in aid of Mr. Jones, who recently lost his team on the Dorrigo cutting. A…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 11

Mr. Maddick, of Lismore, was bathing in the surf at Yamba on New Year's Day and getting out of his depth was taken rapidly in the direction of the rocks by the…

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Drowned at Bondi

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 10

The dangers of surf bathing were again brough painfully into prominence on Monday afternoon, when a young man named George M. Baker lost his life while…

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A Man Drowned at Newbold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 9

COPMANHURST, Friday.—Information has just been received to the effect that a young man named Ernest Stevens was drowned at Newbold this afternoon, while crossing the…

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A Young Man Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 2

On Friday wight the Grafton police received a telegraphic message from Copmanhurst to the effect that a young man named Ernest Stevens had been…

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A Young Man Drowned

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

On Friday night the Grafton police received a telegraphic message from Copmanhurst to the effect that a, young man named Ernest Stevens had been drowned that afternoon…

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Story of a Sad Drowning Case

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 5

A seven-year-old boy, David Lynch, left his home in Cardigan-street, Melbourne. As he did not return home his mother who was almost distracted reported that he was…

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Railway Accidents

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 3

As the 4.30 p.m. train, Sydney to Parrmatta, was leaving Granville on Friday, the last carriage jumped the points, and left the line. It bumped along the permanent way for…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 3

The body of Maxwell, an artilleryman, has been recovered at Bondi from the Cliffs, where deceased had evidently fallen a few days ago…

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A Serious Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 4

Mr. H. Rowles, jun., met with a serious accident at South Grafton about noon on Tuesday. He was ruling a partly-broken filly along Ryan-street,…

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Sensational Boating Accident A Young Man Drowned

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

During the storm which struck Sydney with such force on Sunday a sailing boat, the Gondolier, capsized in Botany Lay, and a young man named John Bondfield…

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