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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1851

5 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Bush Fires

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 1 March 1851 · page 6

Yesterday forenoon was a period of extraordinary heat, and we are sorry to say, of a calamity also. The heat from 11 o'clock, a.m.. until after noon was most…

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Destructive Fire at San Francisco

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 July 1851 · page 4

BY the last mail, intelligence arrived that San Francisco was reduced to ashes for the fifth time. Believing that the fire was the work of incendiaries, a public meeting of…

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Origin of the Fire

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 6

The facts so far as they are known and we could gather them, are substantially these. The fire originated in a two-story frame house, near the corner of Powell and Pacific…

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California. Terrible Conflagration. Sixth Great Fire of San Francisco

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 6

Another great conflagration has laid in ruins a large proportion of our city. At about the hour of eleven o'clock yesterday morning, just as the church bells…

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English Extracts. Destructive Fire in Southwark

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 November 1851 · page 3

The metropolis, which has within the last few months witnessed so many disastrous conflagrations, has been this week again visited by a devastating fire, the most extensive that has occurred in the…

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