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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Benalla Burning Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Later particulars concerning the burning accident at Benalla (Vic.), particulars of which were wired on Wednesday show that the third…

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Shooting Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 4

Mr. C. Lickiss, who lives in Fitzroy-street, Grafton, was the victims of an unfortunate shooting accident early on Thursday morning. Mr. Lickiss was awakened at about…

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Young Man Drowned. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 3

The sailing boat zena, with a crew of four, capsized off Peel Island (near Brisbane). The upturned craft with the crew clinging to it, drifted…

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Boating Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The sailing boat Gena, with a crew of four on board, capsized off Peel Island, in Moreton Bay. The crew, clinging to it, drifted towards…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 4

Our Harwood correspondent writes:—A very narrow escape from drowning occurred in the Harwood swimming baths on Thursday. It appears that a number of girls…

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Disastrous Ocean Collision Twelve Lives Lost

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

During a dense log near the Tuskar Rock yesterday the Ellerman line steamer Arcadian, from London, hound for Glasgow and Basra, foundered in three minutes…

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Young Girl Drowned. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 3

Alice Anderson, aged 18, while attending, a picnic at Gin Gin (W.A.), got into a punt at Lake Panham with Eileen Horan, aged 16. The…

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A Pea Rifle Fatality. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 3

Albert Brown, who was accidentally shot in the head, with a pea-rifle at Picton on New Year's Day, died yesterday…

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Steamers in Collision. Ayrshire Flooded. an Irish Channel Disaster. London, Monday. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 3

In a dense fog at Tuskar Rock, on the Irish Coast, yesterday, the Ellerman line steamer Arcadian, bound from London for Glasgow and Basra, The steamer Ayrshire, after collision with the Arcadian, took a heavy list. It was subsequently discovered that the collision bulkhead had gone…

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Fatal Accident. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 3

After lingering unconscious for eight days. Mrs. George Lewis, one of the victims of the vehicular accident at Linton (Vic.) after a wedding…

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Arcadian-Ayrshire Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Ayrshire, which, after the Collision with the steamer Arcadian off the Tuscan Rock, was beached at Holyhead, has listed, and…

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Senator Millen Injured

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While Senator Millen, Vice-President of the Executive Council, was driving to Burren Junction on Tuesday the sulky in which he was…

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Ocean Collision. Twelve Lives Lost

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

During a dense fog near the Tuskar Rock on Sunday the Ellorman line stoamer Arcadian, from London, bound for Glasgow and Basra,…

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Young Man Drowned SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1910 · page 3

A youth named George Hammond was drowned while surf bathing at Coogee yesterday. The body was no recovered…

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Accident to Mr. R. Hann

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 2

Yesterday, at about noon, a rather serious accident happened at the new shops in course of erection by the contractors, Messrs. Irving and…

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A Racecourse Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 2

What might have been a very serious accident occurred last Monday morning on the Grafton Racecourse. While two horses from Mr Aley…

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Collision on the High Seas. "Ship Without Lights."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 3

The loss of her master, Captain Perrot, during a heavy gale was not the only sensational incident which happened to the French barque Marechal De Turenne…

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Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

An accident of a serious nature occurred in Prince-street. Grafton, at about 12 o'clock on Tuesday. Two men named E. Powell and Ralph Hann (the latter about…

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Railway Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

Further particulars of the railway accident near Penrith state that as the special fast train from the Blue Mountains, which runs on Mondays only, was crowded, and…

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A Terrible Accident. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 5

From the latest particulars to hand regarding the accident at Point Nepean Fort, it appears that the charge exploded before the gun had cleared…

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