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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1911

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Double Drowning Fatality Two Sisters the Victims. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 3

A sad double drowning fatality occurred in the River Manning near Taree yesterday. Maggie Lyons (25) and Julia Lyons…

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Middy's Heroism in River Collision. Saves Ten Lives While in Risking His Own-- 29 Sailors Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 4

What the newspapers describe as the most noteworthy feat of heroism since Commander Hobson sank the Merrimac in Santiago Harbor…

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Double Railway Fatality Two Men Horribly Mangled. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 3

A double railway fatality occurred at Breadalbane (15 miles beyond Goulburn) yesterday morning. Two railway men, Patrick Horan…

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Mourners Buried. 3 KILLED. 13 Injured. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 3

While a large party of mourners at Montelobiene, Rome, were watching over the bier of a woman, the floor collapsed, precipitating them into the…

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Double Drowning Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—At Taree on Sunday a double drowning accident occurred in the river half a mile from the hospital, while Maggie Lyons (25) and Julia…

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Moonee Beach Drowning Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 8

Mr. Editor.—Please allow me space in your widely read columns to contradict the assertion of your Coff's Harbour correspondent that one of the Misses…

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Frightful Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—While Patrick Horan (59), ganger, and Richard Flood (30), labourer, were, comings into[?] Bread-albane on a tricycle they were run into…

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Narrow, Escape from Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 4

Had it not been for the brave action of Mr. J. W. Ferguson, of Mosman, who is at present on a holiday visit to Yamba, Mr. Reggie Clarence[?] of Newbold Station,…

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River Accident at Casino

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At Casino today, while Mr. McKeirhan[?] his wife, son and two young daughters were crossing the river near the town in a…

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Accident on the Murray

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Kate Berry, daughter of Ensign Berry, of the Salvation Army, went out with her sister and another girl and a young man named…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 4

At Taree on Sunday a double drowning accident occurred in the river half a mile from the hospital, while Maggie Lyons (25) and Julia…

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Remarkable Fatality

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 4

A remarkable case of accidental death occurred the other day at Fame Cove, Port Stevens. An old man named James Johnson was engaged…

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Appalling' Drowning Fatality. at Moonee Beach. Four Deaths One Body Not Yet Recovered

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 3

People who were enjoying a peaceful day on Boxing Day had no inkling of the terrible straggle with death going on in the sea off Moonee Beach…

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A Deadly Fog. Serious Tram Collision. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 5

In a dense fog two Brooklyn cars collided on an incline. Sixteen persons are seriously injured and two may die from the effects of their…

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A Railway Disaster. 8 KILLED. 50 Injured. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 5

A train at Cathcart, Capetown, toppled over an embankment. Eight persons were killed and fifty injured…

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The Gravel Pit Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 4

Further particulars have been received of the terrible gravel pit accident, involving the deaths of three men, in the Moree district. A…

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Surfing Fatality. Four Young People Drowned Near Coff's Harbor

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 1

Misses Heather McKenzie, Birdie McKenzie, Maggie Herd, and Henry Taylor, all young people, were drowned while surf bathing on…

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The [?] Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 11

Arthur B. Rowe writes:—I wish to endorse all that Mr. Arthur P. Goodenough says in his letter re the aid rendered to the drowned at Mo[?] Peach on Boxing…

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S[?] Accident[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 2

[?] correspondent [?] [?] might have been a [?]ragie su[?] bathing incident at Tweed Heads on Wednesday. Great excitement prev[?] when…

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A Railway Fatality. Man Cut in Halves. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 3

Leslie Cloquhoun, a boilermaker, was killed at South Kensington (Vic.). His body, cut in halves, was found on the railway line, and it is…

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