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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

301 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 16

Old Man's Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 3

Three old-age pensioners were proceeding from Dalmorton to Newton Boyd (Barney's Hill) on Saturday, to see a cricket match, when the horse…

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Shipping Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—All the survivors of the steamer Verinese, which was wrecked off Portugal, have been taken off. one hundred and ninety-one persons, were…

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Serious Coaching Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 2

A serions accident occurred to the InverellAshford mail coach about six miles from Ashford. It appears that the driver. Morton came to the public gate at the spot…

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Motor Car Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A motor car containing two occupants fell into a creek from Jingera Gap, Albury. One of the occupants, James Colquhoun, a…

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Coronial Enquiry. Drowned in a Well

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1913 · page 3

The Deputy-Coroner (Mr. J. G. Phillips) conducted a Coronial inquiry into the death of James Arthur Ingledew, aged eighteen months…

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A Stabbing Affray. Three Men Injured. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1913 · page 3

About three o'clock yesterday afternoon a man employed at "Durham Court." Glebe, ran amok, and stabbed two other employees named John…

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Fatal Accident. Killed by Logs

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1913 · page 3

Word reached the city this morning that Oscar Green, a young man of between 20 and 30 years of age, was killed at King's Creek yesterday by…

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Old Man Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of an old man, about 70 years of age, was found floating off the beach at Clontarf this morning. He, apparently, had been…

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Ferry-Punt Collision. Marine Board Inquiry

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 4

The Marine Board inquiry into the cause of the collision at Grafton in October last, between the ferry steamer Helen (Captain Brown) and the…

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Late Cables. Pilgrims Drowned. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 5

A party of 350 Mahommedan pilgrims, bound from India to Mecca (Arabia), were drowned by a flood in Egypt which overwhelmed the entire…

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Fatal Accident

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 4

On Saturday last a man named Thomas McCrow met with an accident which terminated fatally. It appears he was working in a cutting…

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Local and General News Accident

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 2

MR, ALFRED HOLLIBONE, of Deer Vale, had the misfortune to dislocate his collar-bone, on Monday lost. He was riding a young horse…

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Gored by a Bull Shocking Accident at Coraki

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 5

Whilst shipping cattle aboard the Burringbar at Coraki on Wednesday at the N. C. Co.'s coal wharf, First Mate Arthur Fisher…

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Another Surf Victim. Young Woman Drowned. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1913 · page 3

Edie Williams, eighteen, with two other women, was surfing at Hampton (Vic.) yesterday. After being in the water for some time she was…

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Ketch Founders. Captain Drowned. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 5

A steam ketch foundered off the mouth of the River Dee, Scotland, yesterday. The mate was blown up the companion way on to, the…

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Railway Accident. Four Mien Killed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Probably the most serious accident that has ever occurred, on the Queensland railways happened yesterday, when a train on the Toowoomba…

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Fishing Boat Capsized. Two Men Drowned. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 February 1913 · page 3

Four men went out fishing in a sixteen foot boat on Saturday evening, and anchored off Elwood, near St. Kilda…

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Torpedo Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1913 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Exciting incidents attended a collision between a torpedoboat and a submarine at Spithead. A big hole was knocked ih the torpedoboat…

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Motor Car Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 February 1913 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While a party consisting of Mrs. Donald, Nurse Ryan, Miss Culshaw, and Roy Parkinson, were taking a walk along the road at…

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Motor Smashed. Three Persons Injured. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1913 · page 5

A motor car, containing five people, crashed into a telegraph post on the Toorak Road. South Yarra, Melbourne, yesterday. The car was…

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