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

Fires & bushfires, 1871

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

The Anvil Creek Coal Mine on Fire

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 4

A most disastrous fire broke out on the morning of Monday, February 27th, in a Coal mine, at Anvil Creek, situate about twelve miles from Maitland, and from the Mercury…

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A Coal-pit on Fire

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 4

Many years ago a coal pit on the Dalqubarren Estate, near to Wallacetown, in the parish of Dailly, took fire, probably from an explosion of foul air bringing down a mass of…

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The Very Latest. a New Fire

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 4

Chicago, October 10th —3.10 p.m.—Word is just brought that a fierce fire is raging on Thirty-first street, This street is two miles south of the southern fire limit, an the south…

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The Great Chicago Fire Mearl[?] the Entire City in Frames

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 4

Chicago, October 9th—Noun.—The whole business portion of the city is in ashes, from Harrison-street [?] to Chicago Avenue, and last of the river to the [?]ke…

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