Motorist Fined. Echo of Boxing Dat Accident
The motor smash on the GraftonCoffs Harbour road last Boxing Day, when Mr. Charles Henry, of Woolgoolga, was killed, was recalled in…
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Accidents, 1928
1,004 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 51
Motor Crashes Lorry on Bulli Pass One Killed, Three Injured. Sydney
One man was killed and three other persons were seriously injured when a motor lorry containing 27 people got out of control on Bulli Pass this afternoon and…
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A head-on motor collision occurred at the Raleigh short-cut turn-off near the eight mile peg on the Urunga-Bellingen road, on Wednesday last, at about 5…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Girls Rescued From Drowning. Sydney
While a number of girls were bathing in Berowra Creek yesterday two got into difficulties. Heather Crossland, 18, a sister of one of the girls, although she was…
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Edison Duorte, 29, was killed and another man Joseph Vega, 32, was seriously injured this morning on the steamer Tuscaloosa, lying at the Aberdeen wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Trains Collide Many Racehorses Injured. Auckland
A train conveying horses from Pukekoha races ot Auckland collided with a goods train at Penrose Junction on Saturday night. Several horse waggons were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →''Purely Accidental'' When Bootlegger Stopped at Post. Sydney
The stewards to-day held an inquiry into the actions of J. Pike, rider of Bootlegger, who was left at the post in the race at Hawkesbury on Saturday. The…
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George MePaul, of Kyogle, a trooper attending the 15th Light Horse camp, at Casino, was thrown from his horse against a shed on Thursday and was removed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sawmill Fatality Sawyer Killed. Brooklana
An accident occurred at Mulhearn Bros' Kororo mill, near Ulong, on the Eastern Dorrigo yesterday, as the result of which Duncan L. McGilvray, a sawyer, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Waggon Overturned One Killed, Three Injured. Melbourne
A railway motor waggon when rushing to repair a fallen overhead electric train gear at McLeod station, overturned at Ivanhoe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SHIP'S S.O.S. Two Men Seriously Injured Pilot Boat Takes Doctor Out. Sydney
When twelve miles off the Heads this morning the steamer City of Canberra spoke the American barquentine Forest Friend, bound from Adelaide to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dam Bursts Disaster In California 400 Believed Drowned Thirty Thousand Homeless Impossible to Estimate Damage. Los Angeles
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR. BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED AND 115 PERSONS ARE STILL MISSING, FOLLOWING THE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Fatally Injured in Collision. Melbourne
As a result of a collision between a motor car and horse and dray on a country road about five miles from Hamilton, Alexander McKerral, 26, was fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forgotten Tragedies Drowning of Bishop Sawyer
Of all the sld drowning fatalities that the mother colony of New South Wales suffered in the early days of settlement, when the North Coast was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lorry Crash One Man Seriously Injured. Sydney
While descending a steep hill at Pendle Hill, near Panamatta, to-night a lorry bound from Bathurst to Sydney skidded, dashed through a fence and rolled down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dynamite Explosion' Man Killed, Mate Injured. Adelaide
George Wenzel, 60, was fatally injured when a charge of dynamite exploded prematurely at Dunstan's quarries. Burnside, while his companion. William McNamara…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Punt Sinks Two Occupants Rescued Three Head of Cattle Drowned Maclean
The Brushgrove-Southgate punt sank at 12.30 to-day, while taking a load of cattle across the river to Southgate. Three of the animals were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blown Out of Tunnel Man Injured When Charge Exploded. Sydney
Alexander McKenzie, 42, powder monkey employed on the city railway construction work at Wynyard Square, failed to get far enough away from a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Morora Sawmill Young Man Killed
The little lumber village of Morora was shocked on Monday morning last when a blast from the mill whistle caused a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Show Day Accidents Cases Before Police Court
George Bligh Dickinson, whose car was smashed at the foot of Cook's Hill on the way home to Coramba on the second day of Coffs Harbour…
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