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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

301 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 16

Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1913 · page 4

On Thursday, Miss Doris Lane, daughter of Mr. L. A. Lane, sheriffs officer, was thrown from a horse she was riding. The accident was caused by the animal…

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A Sad Fatality. Boy Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1913 · page 2

A thrill of sympathy and sorrow tan through Prince-street on Saturday morning, when a 'bus passed along the street, bearing the dead…

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Second Drowning Case. Death of Francis Edward Wilson

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1913 · page 2

The sadness pervading the city on Saturday morning, following the drowning of Albert Denning, was intensified in the afternoon, when word…

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A Railway Smash. 25 Persons Injured. London

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

A locomotive dashed into an electric train at Manor Station. Newcastle-on-Tyne telescoping the last Carriages and injuring twenty-five…

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Drowning Fatality at Lismore

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 March 1913 · page 8

A drowning fatality occurred at Lismore on Saturday evening, when Norman Lance, aged 10½ years, son of Mr. F. W. Lance, while endeavouring to save the life…

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Death by Drowning

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 March 1913 · page 8

On Saturday morning a lad named Albert Dening, aged about 11 years, was drowned at the Corporation wharf at the foot of [?]rince-street. Deceased was playing at a…

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Railway Fatality

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Murrurundi railway fatality, the engine driver, Joseph Sharp, was run over and killed instantly. His head was severed from the…

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The Murrurundi Fatality

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

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Brief particulars by telegram were given in Tuesday's "Examiner" of the railway accident at Murrurundi, resulting in the death of…

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In Railway Accidents. What Would You Do ?

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 3

In a party of commercial travellers the question was recently propounded, "What would you do in case of a railway collision at full speed ?"…

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An Ipswich Sensation Father and Son Injured

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—William John Mayne, residing in Macalister Street, ordered his daughter Dorothy, aged about II years, to do her school exercise, and on her…

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Jockey Deeble Injured. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 3

H. H. Deeble had his collarbone broken when Vanguard fell in the Autumn Steeplechase at Flemington yesterday…

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Tragic Yacht Race. One Man Drowned. a Perilous Experience. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 3

A terrific south-easter, with mountainous seas and blinding rain, prevailed yesterday afternoon when the yachts Thelma and Sayonara…

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A Terrible Explosion. Ships and Men Shattered. Fifty People Killed, Sixty Injured. Vancouver, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 3

A terrible dynamite explosion occurred at Baltimore. Three hundred tons of dynamite were being loaded into the British steamer Alumclieve,…

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Accident at Ferry Wharf

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 3

Last nighty a man named Walter Tuck, aged forty-three, a wood-cutter at South Grafton, fell over the high part of the Grafton ferry wharf…

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Fatality at Coraki

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 5

A fatality, appalling in its suddenness, occurred at Coraki, when the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hanson met with an untimely end. A horse had been left…

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Railway Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 5

LISMORE, Monday.— An' accident happened at Lismore railway station on Saturday afternoon, shorty after the arrival of the Grafton train. Passengers…

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Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 4

A nasty accident occurred at the Ferry Wharf on Sunday evening, when Mr. Walter Tuck, a wood-cutter, of South Grafton, fell from the high portion of the…

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Five Men Injured

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 2

Four men were sitting with their elbows out of the carriage windows of a Comobound train, and a fifth stood on one of the platforms, when, near Carlton, an…

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Accident to Mr. M. Bourke

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 4

Mr. M. Bourke, Queen-street, carrier, had the misfortune yesterday afternoon, to have his leg broken through falling from a load of hay. It appears while driving along…

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An Injured Head

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 5

Another accident, with serious consequences, happened yesterday afternoon, just out of South Grafton, of which Mr. John Lavton was the…

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