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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
913 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 46
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner, Mr. Reed, at the inquest concerning the death of Norman Brown, the victim of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seventy were injured, of whom twenty were retained in hospital, two suffering from fractured skulls, and two others with both legs fractured, and another seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While playing in a yard at Wampra, 80 miles beyond Bourke, a 2 years old child, named Jackson, was attacked by a rooster, which tore the child's eye and nose with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Tighe, 36, undertaker, was killed instantly at Dubbo, when a car in which he was riding struck a rut and capsized…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Travelling in a torrential rain shower, on the Bellingen to Kalang road, two motor cars came into heavy head-on collision, as a result of which one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robina Mary Tucker, aged 15, was drowned in a waterhole two miles from Temora while bathing with a number of girl Companions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missing from home last night, Joseph Holland, 8, of Surry Hills, was found drowned in Lake Parramatta this morning. The boy had been spending the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While crawling with a two inch nail in her mouth, Enid Bertha Jobson, 13 months, fell, and the nail penetrated the roof of her mouth to the base of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six firemen were injured yesterday in fighting the flames which destroyed the paint works of Major Bros, and Co., Ltd., Cabarita, and did £100,000 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charles McCooey, junior porter at Wingham station, was cut to pieces by the Grafton mail on Saturday morning. McCooey set out at 4.50 a.m. from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John McLenaghan, 57, and Hurtle Zisher, 55, were drowned af the mouth of the Waimakarai River last night when a punt in which they were crossing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a midnight collision between two motor cars on the Newcastle road on Saturday William Jewell had his skull fractured and died later in Maitland Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George Nosworthy, 63, was bathing in shallow water, at Terrigal, with relatives, on Saturday, when he and two other members of the party were swept off their feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sidney Hogan, married, employed as "powder monkey" at Lismore aerodrome, had a miraculous escape from death to-day when a premature explosion occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Kenosha (Wisconsin) states that two North Shore electric trains were wrecked, eleven persons being killed and 84 injured when a Milwaukee youth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held at Gresford yesterday, concerning the death from a gunshot wound of Gladys May Ward, 23. Gladys Lillian Lill, 19, who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Having completed the loading of his motor lorry at Tweed Heads railway station preparatory to starting out on his daily run to Murwillumbah. Mr. W. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A lad, Alfred Hanlon (15), got into difficulties in a dam to-day, and Joseph Dyer (68), who is a hunchback, went to his assistance. He made an heroic effort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a motor car capsized on the Windsor road early to-day Aircraftsman Hart Williams, 33, member of the Royal Air Force, was killed, and Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Thom, an elderly rabbit trapper, was run down by a train at a level crossing in the main street. The sulky in which he was travelling was smashed to…
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