Deer Hunters Drowned
While four deer hunters were crossing the Buller River (N.Z.) in a flat bottomed boat the craft capsized and all were thrown into the deep, swift-running…
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Accidents, 1931
727 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 37
Bridge Worker Injured
Yesterday afternoon at 3.30 a bridge worker named Clarence Laylaw, 37, residing in Bent street, South Grafton, was severely injured. He was working on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Lorry Fatality Driver Committed for Trial Goulburn
At the conclusion of the inquiry into the death of David Hearne, 47, who was killed in a motor lorry accident at Paddy's River last Friday, the Coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Woman Injured Knocked Down by Cyclist Boys Biding Without Lights
The danger of riding bicycles without lights was exemplified last evening when two boys were scorching along Bacon street, near the Public School…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Not an Accident' Threat in Anonymous Letter Evidence at Kirra Fire Inquiry
"The fact that there was an at tempt one night, and that the house was burned the next night, proves it was not an accident. I now think the anonymous…
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Thomas Wainwright a ganger on the Clarence' River bridge, was struck on the right eye with a piece of bar metal yesterday morning and sustained a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wireless Operator's Death Police Patrol Car Collision. Melbourne
The Coroner to-day held an inquiry into the death of Constable W. Roberts, wireless operator on the police patrol car, which came into collision with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Drowned Steamer Crashes Into Rocks Disaster in Fog. London
With the loss or ten lives the steamer Citrine, bound from Glasgow to North Wales, was wrecked on Bradda Head, on the South Coast of the Isle of Man,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General. Nasty Accident
Mr. Les. Long was squaring timber in the bush at Korora on Wednesday, when the axe slipped and inflicted a severe gash in the calf of one of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bus Driver Discharged Eight Hour Day Fatal Accident. Sydney
The case in which Clifford George Grimshaw, 40, bus driver, is charged with manslaughter arising out of a collision between two buses at Rockdale on Eight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell 30Ft. Clarence Bridge Worker First Fatal Accident
The first fatal accident occurred on the Clarence bridge works yesterday afternoon, when Alfred ("Bluey") Trainer, was so seriously injured that he died on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A "News" Accident
Apropos of a par in a recent issue of the "Daily Examiner" regarding the dropping of a forme in the office of the "Wellington Times" just as they, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Runaway Horses Three Men Injured. Sydney
Two horses attached to a Defence Force lorry bolted in the Parramatta road about noon to-day, scattering the traffic and pedestrians in all directions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Drowned Left Clothes Cn Bank a Lismore Tragedy. Lismore
"You will find my clothes on the river bank," stated a letter received by a friend this morning, from Mrs. E. Butler, wife of a Tenterfield business man,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Smash Over 30 Injured Corner of Elizabeth and Albion Streets Trams Badly Damaged. Sydney
Over 30 person, were injured, five seriously, when two trams collided at the corner of Elizabeth and Albion streets, city, to-night. Both trams were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Recent Carlisle Accident Loco. Driver Committed London
After hearing evidence that the express on January 3 was driven at an excessive speed when it jumped the rails near Carlisle, resulting in the death of three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Killed French Rail Accident. Paris
Five persons, including an Englishman named Wetman, were killed while dining on board the Paris-Bordeaux express. They were passing through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in Mid Air Two South African Planes. Capetown
Two Air Force aeroplanes collided at Pretoria at an altitude of 1200 feet. Cadet Kruger's machine dropped like a stone. He was killed instantly. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Drowned Boating Tragedy in N.Z. AUCKLAND
Five persons were drowned in Mannwatu River yesterday. It appears that a picnic putty numbering thirteen was going no the river in a motor launch which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Wreck 'Royal Scot' Leaves Rails Six Killed, Many Injured Pitiful Scenes One Op World S Fastest Trains. London
This "Royal Scot," one of the fastest trains in the world, which last month attained 90 miles an hour non stop between London and Carlisle, was…
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