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

Fires & bushfires, 1901

515 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 12 of 26

The Fire at the Palace Emporium. Further Particulars. Clegg's Terrible Leap. 'Picture of Courageous Despair."

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 11 July 1901 · page 2

Further particulars are new to hand concerning the mammoth conflagration at Anthony Hordern't and Sons (the Palace Emporium). Shortly before half-past 8 o'clock a deep cry of…

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A Big Blaze. at Anthony Horderns. The Premises Gutted. Shocking Death of an Employee. Dashed to Death on the Roadway. OVER £500,000 Damage to the Stock. Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 11 July 1901 · page 2

The Palace Emporium (Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons, Haymarket) to-day was the scene of one of the greatest fires on record in Australia…

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Disastrous Fire. At Anthony Hordern & Sons. Estimated Damage £500,000. Tragic Death of an Employee. Leaps 100 Feet to the Roadway

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 July 1901 · page 12

Yesterday (Wednesday) morning one of the biggest fires that Sydney has ever known consumed almost the whole of Anthony Hordern's immense…

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Burnt Out But Undismayed

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon.--Mr. Samuel Hordern, head of the great firm whose premises were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning, says that, as much for the sake of…

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Terrible Fires In Sydney

Molong Argus · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

AT 8.15 on Wednesday morning a fire broke out at Anthony Hordern's mammoth emporium, Sydney, and which, with the exception of one or…

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Burraga. Fatality, Fires, and Weather

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 4

The coroner, Mr. T. P. Hackney, and a jury of ten on Wednesday visited the Burraga mine for the purpose of viewing the place where Joseph Ketterer lost his life by explosion the day…

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The Big Fire

National Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

The great fire at Anthony Hordern's, Sydney, is almost an Australian calamity. The huge emporium—"not a shop, but an institution," as its…

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The Other Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon.--The fire at the Imperial Manufacturing Co.'s is still smouldering;…

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The Fire at Hordern's

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon.--The work of demolishing the old walls at Hordern's will be resumed this afternoon, when several more shots are to be fired…

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Great Fire in Sydney

The Gulgong Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 11

On Wednesday morning the whole country was electrified by the news of the total destruction by fire of Messrs Anthony Hordern and Sons’ famous…

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Another Big Blaze. in Kent-street. a Warehouse Ablaze Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

The city firemen after the [?]ous duties at the Haymarket, were summoned about midnight to quell a second serious out break in [?] story…

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News by Wire. Great Fire at Hordern's Buildings. Sydney

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

The buildings at the Haymarket, Sydney, in which the business of Anthony Hordern is carried on were almost totally demolished by fire…

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Fire at Littleton (N.z.) Three Children Perish. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

Nows was received here to-day from Auckland (N.Z.) to the effect that a terrible fire had occurred at Lyttleton in a four-roomed cottage, occupied by…

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Horderns Fire. Business Resumed To-day. Four Men Missing. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

The firm of Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons resumed business today at the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park…

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Fatal Fire in New Zealand. Three Children Burnt to Death. Auckland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

Nows has just been received of a terrible fatal fire, which occurred this afternoon at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch, in the province of Canterbury, South Island. The…

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The Fire at the Palace Emporium. Clegg's Companion. All Hands at Work Next Week

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

It who persistently stated yesterday by many people who saw Clegg standing on the Gipps-street parapet that he had there a companion in misfortune, with whom he…

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The Fire at the Imperial Manufacturing Company. Large Number of Hands Thrown Out of Employment, Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

only those whose interests are directly concerned realise the gravity of the disaster at the Imperial Manufacturing Company. Looked at from a practical standpoint it is fraught with most serious…

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Terrible Fire in Sydney. Hordern's Palace Emporium Consumed. Employe Jumps to His Death. Half a Million in Stock Destroyed

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

A terrible and destructive fire broke out on Wednesday morning in tho great pile of buildings owned by tho well-known firm of Alimony Hordern and Sons, Haymarket, Sydney…

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Another Big Fire

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2

A call was received, early on Thursday morning for an outbreak of fire at 210 and 212 Kent-street; just near Margaret-street, a six-story building occupied by the Imperial…

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The Auckland Hotel Fire. Auckland (N.z.)

National Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 1

At the continuation of the inquest to-day on the fire at the Grand Hotel on May 31, the mother of the girl, Jessie Minn, said that her daughter's…

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