Survivors Mostly Injured. No Chance of Escape. London, Tuesday Night
The survivors from the Persia are mostly suffering from shock and hardships. Many are bruised, and one woman's leg was broken…
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Accidents, 1916
331 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 17
Fatal Driving Accident. Sydney
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Webber and their two children were driving home to Apsley from Edenhope, Victoria, to -day, when the horse bolted and dashed into a tree. All…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Wires. Collision at Sea. Two Vessels Badly Damaged. Sydney
A collision occurred m Bass Straits (between Victoria and Tasmania), between the steamer City of Florence and the American schooner Philippine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Mediterranean. Italian Ship Sunk. Montenegrin Recruits Drowned. London, Sunday Night
An Italian ship, with 425 Montenegrin recruits from America, struck a mine off the Albanian coast and immediately sank…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision in Bass Straits. Vessels Badly Damaged. Sydney
A collision occurred in Bass Straits at 10 o'clock on Friday night between the steamer City of Florence (5400 tons), and the African schooner Phillipine (490 tons)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Wires. Tram Collision. Several Passengers Injured. Sydney
Two trams collided at Rose Bay last night. Several passengers were injured by the broken glass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Motor Fatality. Driver Committed for Trial. Melbourne
William McDonald, the driver of the motor lorry which collided with the tram at Northcote, Victoria, resulting in the death of a passenger named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kaiser in a Zeppelin Accident
A Petrograd message states that the "Bourse Gazette" publishes a story of a narrow escape the Kaiser had during a Zeppelin flight over Warsaw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegraph Linesman Drowned. Sydney
Samuel Stewart, a telegraph linesman, was drowned in the Macquarie River yesterday while in the act of swimming over the river at the railway bridge with a wire. When…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. Sad Browning Fatality. Sydney
Mrs. Duncan, and her brother, George Hudson, the latter aged 14. wore drowned while bathing near Wingham. The boy got out of his depth and Mrs. Duncan went to his rescue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Startling Accident
A party of Uralla residents had an extremely miraculous escape from death on Saturday night last, when returning from Armidale in a car. The…
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Mr. George Ward, of Nymboida, had the misfortune to meet with a rather serious shooting accident on Saturday afternoon. While fishing at Claud's Creek he placed his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Drowning Case. Sydney
Arthur Lockwood, one of the best-known [?]rehard settlers in the Hawkesbury district, was surf bathing yesterday, when he was swept out to sea, and has not been recovered…
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A seven-year-old girl, the child of Maltese parents named Sammitt, had an exceedingly narrow escape from drowning on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Accident at Nymboida. Death of the Victim
Mr. George F. Ward, a native of Nymboida, 28 years of age, succumbed on Monday night to injuries received while fishing at Cloud's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Drowning Accident. Sydney
Brooke Greville, 33, and Rupert James, 15, were drowned in the river at Hay. Greville was teaching, a number of others to swim, when his son apparently got into…
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The community was somewhat shocked on Friday last, to hear that a man had been found in the river drowned. The man, whose name is…
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A shooting fatality of a very sad nature occurred on Sunday morning last, when Harold Kruckow, an eight-year-old son of Mrs. Kruckow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Accident. Sydney
Through the tyre coming off the front wheel of a motor car carrying five men from Liverpool t[?] Bulli, it fell, thirty feet over a cliff on the Bulli mountain yesterday, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Accident to a Soldier. Sydney
Rather than wait for a later train a soldier named Milton Todd, mounted an engine tender of the eleven o'clock train from Sydney to Liverpool last night. He was shaken off…
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