Sad Fatality. Boambee Resident Drowned In Coffs Creek. Sequel to Fishing Expedition
Coffs Creek was the scene of a drowning fatality on Thursday night, when Mr Jas. Patrick McCue, farmer, of Boambee, lost his life…
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Accidents, 1919
368 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 19
Late Cables. a Scottish Disaster. 270 Sailors Drowned Tragic End to Holiday Cruise Montreal. Wednesday Night
Two hundred and seventy British sailors have been drowned off the Scotch coast. MONTREAL, Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Accident. Melbourne
John Bennett (23) was run over by a train at Croxton Park, Victoria, both legs being severed. He died two hours later…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Goods Train. Sydney
While a goods train of six trucks, containing coal, and a brake van were being shunted at Valley Heights early this morning the train ran back and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Accident. Sydney
A motor car containing Miss Emelie Polini, the well-known actress, her husband and two friends crashed over an embankment near Palm Beach yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision with U-boat. Sierra's Narrow Escape. Adventure in the Atlantic. Sydney
The Oceanic Co.'s mail steamer Sierra had a narrow escape in the Atlantic a few weeks prior to the signing of the armistice. The Sierra, which is well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensational Collision. Between Train and Tram. Fourteen Persons Injured. Rockhampton
The intersection of Archer and Denison streets, where the tramline to Canning street and the showgrounds crosses the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attacked by a Shark. Boy Fatally Injured. Bathing at Mosman. Sydney
Richard Simpson, aged 13, while bathing off Sirius Cove, Mosman, this morning, was attacked by a shark in two feet of water and injured so severely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. Railway Accident. Carriages Smashed at Hurstville. Sydney
A number of railway carriages crashed into the buffers of a dead [?] Hurstville this morning. The impact was so severe that the foremost carriage was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General. [?]Rowning Fatality
[?] Harbour correspondent [?] A very sad drowning fatality [?] recently which resulted in [?] Mr. J. P. McCue, of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident
Mr. George Schaeffer, of Grafton, met with a serious accident on Wednesday while engaged in dismantling an old barn on the farm of Mr. Connors at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Double Drowning Fatality. Sydney
While a number of children were bathing in the Murrmbidgee River, near Narrandera, Dorothy Robertson, aged 14, got into difficulties. Peter Sullivan, 68 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Double Railway Fatality Father and Son Killed. Warwick
A railway accident involving the loss of two lives occurred on Saturday night between Hendon and Ellenthorpe. It appears that a lengthsman named John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Premature Explosion. Two Miners Injured. Sydney
Two miners, John Bland, aged 37, and a Arthur Willmoft, aged 39, and working mates, were severely injured by the premature explosion of a charge in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Railway Smash. 20 KILLED, 58 Injured. Vancouver, Sunday Night
A message from Batavia, New York, says twenty persons were killed and 58 injured in a railroad wreck there. (Batavia is a manufacturing town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Wires Mine Explosion. Two Men Injured. Sydney, Saturday Night
Two men, about six o'clock night, received terrible injuries at the Aberdare Colliery at Cessnock, owing to the premature explosion of a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mining Accident. Sydney
Peter Lezina fell down the main shaft of the Pereeverancy mine at Kalgoorlie, a depth of eleven hundred [?]t, and was shockingly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. Gored by a Bull. Man Fatally Injured. Hobart
Samuel Ranger (36), a laborer living at Kingston, near Hobart, and who was employed by Benjamin Pearsall on his farm, while going about his usual duties,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aries' Accident. Sydney
Aries, the favorite for the Challenge Stakes, wrenched off one of her fore shoes while being exercised, and damaged the hoof to such an extent that it had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jockey Seriously Injured. Sydney
A jockey named Joseph Doyle was taking his horse along the track at Kensington when the animal swerved, flinging him on to some palings,…
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