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

Fires & bushfires, 1874

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

Fire at Hill End

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 4 April 1874 · page 3

Fire end was [?] night again the [?] of a [?] At [?] 12 o’clock and [?] of was given in [?]…

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The “Fire-proof” Pantechnicon Burnt

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 2

ONE of the most disastrous fires of our time broke out the other evening, nobody knows how, in the most fashionable part of London, at the Pantechnicon, a large warehouse in…

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Another Great Fire at Chicago

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 3

There has been another great fire at Chicago, which has destroyed sixty acres of buildings, and rendered several hundreds of families homeless. Four firemen…

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Something Like a Fire

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 4

Well you seem to have discharged the ’Whole Duty of Man’ according to John Murray remarks a St Petersberg friend to whom I have been retailing my…

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Alarming Fire at Newtown

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 22 December 1874 · page 2

THIS MORNING, shortly before one o’clock, the inhabitants of Newtown, reading in the vicinity of the railway bridge, were aroused from their slumbers by the alarm of fine, and…

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Disastrous Fire at Windsor. (From the Herald’s Correspondent.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 2

WITHOUT doubt the most alarming and disastrous conflagration that was ever witnessed here, and probably in any other town in this colony, occurred on Wednesday last…

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