Two Boys Drowned Mother's Vain Attempt at Rescue
An Assyrian woman, who could not swim, tried heroically but unavailingly to save her son and another Assyrian boy from drowning in the Gwydir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents
Accidents, 1941
431 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 22
Finger Jammed Miner's Unusual Accident
A most unusual, and yet most uncomfortable accident, occurred at the Bloomfield South colliery on Monday morning, says "Maitland Mercury."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Drowned Tragedy Near Wooli Three Others Rescued Beach Miners' Heroic Efforts
When four girls, whose ages range between nine and thirteen years, were carried out by the undertow at the American Beach Mining Co.'s beach at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Accidents Pedestrians Who Are Killed
Pedestrians who were killed in road accidents in New South Wales last year totalled 167 and of these nearly four-fifths were either over the age of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.A.F. Planes Collide Over Sea Two Occupants Drowned One Passenger Rescued Sydney
Two pilot officers are missing, believed drowned, following a collision between two R.A.A.F. planes off Terrigal to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Killed Railway Tunnellers Crushed By Fall Of Earth Eleven Were Injured Sydney
Three men were crushed to death and 11 others narrowly escaped fatal injury last night when a railway tunnel in course of construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Boys Drowned
The bodies of two boys, Tony Haddad and Ronnie Coorey, have peen recovered from the Gwydir River, by Inverell and district police. The boys…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowlers Day Out Clarence River Cricket Grafton Batsman Injured South Maintain Lead in Competition
Clarence River bowlers had a day out on Saturday when the cricket competitions were continued. Intermittent showers during the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motorist Fined Sequel to Collision
The collision at the sharp turn on the highway at Bayliss' Hill, about five miles from Coffs Harbour, on November 18 last, between a sedan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Drowned Whilst Attempting Rescue
Whilst attempting to save the lives- of a woman and one of her sons, who bad narrow escapes from death, Keith George Thomas Boulton (20) was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Accidents Royal Commission Not Needed. Sydney
He did not think there was any need for a Royal Commission to inquire into the R. A. A. F, or the number of recent accidents, said the Air…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lost in Jungle Tick Board Employee Old Man Feared Injured Police, Civilians Search Lismore
Rain and low hanging clouds, which reduced visibility to a few yards, hampered the police and civilian search in the rugged Barker's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured While Loading Timber
Harry Wunderlich, of Grafton, an employee of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, sustained wounds to the head, forearm, and concussion,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elderly Woman Injured
Mrs. Jemima Lawrence, 82, of Alice street, Grafton, suffered a fractured right thigh as the result of a fall at her home on Saturday. First aid was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Bus Overturns Ten Passengers Injured. Canberra
A heavily laden tourist bus plunged down an embankment and overturned on the Federal highway, 20 miles from Canberra to-day. Ten passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Smash Engine Hits Landslide Thousand Tons Of Rock at Tunnel Entrance Ten of 80 Passengers Injured. Brisbane
Without warning the Brisbane-Toowoomba mail train crashed head on into a thousand tons of rock, brought down by a landslide,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Injured
When a rear wheel of a car driven by Mr. William Schipp, of Glenreagh, collapsed on the Coramba-Glenreagh road yesterday his father, Mr. George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driver Killed Collision at Goodna. Brisbane
Thomas B. Hawkins, 59, married, a carrier, of Redbank, was killed to-night when the car he was driving collided collided with an Air Force tender at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maclean Accident
While playing with a stick at the home of his parents, James the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fiaterone, of Clyde street, Maclean, suffered a nasty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Slips Serious Accidents
The road accident figures for January show an unusually high percentage of accidents caused by motorists failing to signal their intention to stop or…
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