Bush Fires
A large bush fire was raging about one and a half miles from Raglan Railway Station on the Bathurst side last night. It appeared as if a crop…
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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
627 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 32
A large bush fire was raging about one and a half miles from Raglan Railway Station on the Bathurst side last night. It appeared as if a crop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The bush fire epidemic is beginning to encroach on the Carcoar district. A very large are, which did a considerable amount of damage, occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"A Visitor" gives the following graphic description of the recent fires on the Blue Mountains:--All day on Saturday the molten sun had hung in the heavens, every now and then shining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reports show that the fires in the Riverina district were of a most disastrous character. Many holdings have been denuded of grass, crops have been destroyed, and homesteads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fire at Leura occurred by lighting picnic fires at the bottom of the falls, and of course it increased as the dead timber and scrub was reached, but as far as the whole of the falls…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Out in the bush in a great tract of country men are fighting fierce fires, which are threatening and destroying their homes and property, and, worse than all, it is feared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The reports to the P[?]emier state that although the damages by big bush fires is great in the Gundagai district there is no destitution requiring immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last week bush fires were raging over a large area of country round Gilgandra. A large number of men are cutting railway sleepers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KATOOMBA, Saturday.--The fire at Leura Falls has now completely subsided, owing to continual rains for the last day or two. The damage, it can now be seen, is not nearly so serious as was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fire bell rang out an alarm this morning and when it became known that the outbreak had occurred in F, Orago'a mills, there was something approaching a soars. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. F. Crag's mill in Lambert-street was yesterday morning the scene of a small fire. The outbreak—the cause of which is not known—occurred in the "smut" room. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A are occured at Curranyalpa, near Tilpa, on Sunday night, by which a four-roomed house, occupied by a family named Smith, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A wooden cottage at North-hill, occupied by E. Barbe, was burned on Sunday night about 10 o'clock through a curtain catching fire from a candle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallace and Co.'s clothing factory at Leichhardt was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The building with its contents were insured for between £10,000 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rial Brothers, of Copabella Station, near Germanton, were heavy losers in a bush fire which occurred on that station. The fire broke out between 1 and 1.30 p.m. Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It had been dry on the Hawkesbury, no rain of quantity fir six months. On the 17th Dec, 1901, thr orchardist stood under his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire at Leura Falls, one of the great beauty spots on the mountains, has now completely subsided, owing to continual rains for the last day of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire occurred in a weatherboard cottage occupied by Miss Cooper, in Church-street, last night. The outbreak was discovered by a neighbor in the front portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early this morning the clothing and boot factory of Messrs Wallace and Company, Leichhardt, was burnt out. It was a two-story brick building…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible domestic tragedy is reported from Maclean, on the Manning River. James Dowling, formerly a…
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