Fire at Forbes FORBES
Whilst Heinke's traction engine and two waggons were hauling 14 tons of chaff to the railway station, a spark, apparently from an engine, ignited the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1909
583 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 28 of 30
The Cowra Fire. Heavy Losses. Damage £100,000
Later particulars to hand respecting the great bush fire which occurred at Cowra on Tuesday show that it has resulted in enormous loss or property…
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From the town last night, the various bush fires raging in the district were plainly seen, and presented a grand, if awe-in[?]riring [?] Five…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Outbreaks at Wattle Flat. Wattle Flat
It was 93 deg. in the shade at Wattle Flat on Tuesday. Four separate bush fires started, and owing to the strong wind blowing, were only beaten out…
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Tuesday last will long be remembered by farmers and graziers especially in the western and south-western districts of New South Wale. It was…
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Advices received in Bathurst on Tuesday night, stated that a big fire raged at Cowra during the afternoon. One report stated that several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cowra Fire. Great Damage Done. a Detailed Account. Cowra, December 15
A disastrous bush fire started yesterday morning on the river about five miles below the town. Enormous damage was done. Standing crops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children's Column Bathurst District School. Bush Fires
The Cowr district is suffering much from bush fires and on Tuesday the fire nearly caught the town, coming within 600 yards of it. Up to this time the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires at Forbes Father and Son Badly Burned. Forbes
Another serious bush fire broke out on Tuesday night on Mr. J. B. Donkin's Lake Cowal, near the boundary of Low Bros. Improvement lease,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bush Fires. Severe Losses at Gundagal. 6000 Acres of Grass Destroyed. 500 Sheep Roasted Alive. Sydney
Disastrous bush fires are still raging in many parts of the country. At Gundagai 6000 acres of grass were destroyed. Mr. Farbury lost 300…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Fire. Lithgow
A house, situated in Tank-street, was this morning burned to the ground and a man named Stewart Young, who lived in a back room, was burnt to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl's Startling Confession Set Parents' House on Fire. Melbourne
Margaret McKeown has confessed to setting fire to her parents' residence at Mt. Clear, Buninyong, in which her three young sisers and a neighbour…
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A disastrous outbreak of fire took place on Mr. A. J. Howard's Coorawong estate on Friday. Some of the men were boiling the billy for dinner…
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The bush fires are still burning to the north and south-east of the town. The farms which were threatened on Thursday are now out of danger. The only…
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Through the grass catching fire in one of Mrs. Henry Lee's paddocks at Wallaroi, near Kelso, two stacks of ensilage, containing altogether about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tank-street Fire. Inquest on Death of Steward Young
The Coroner. Mr. E. P. Richards, opened an inquest in tho inspector's, room at the Town Hall on Friday afternoon, into the cause of the death of Steward Young,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Fire in Lithgow. H. E. Middleton's Stationery' Shop Destroyed
The town was, for the second time within a few days, roused at about four o'clock on Sunday morning by the ringing of the fire, bell, The scene of the outbreak…
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The town has been surrounded with bush fires during the (last few days, and yesterday was enveloped in smoke. Water is being carted daily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires in Victoria Salvation Army Shelter Destroyed. Melbourne
The Salvation Army's shelter at Abbotsford, was burnt to the ground to-day. Strong fires are raging at Hampton and Williamstown. It is reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tremendous Bush Fires Melbourne Suburbs Swept. Children's Hospital Burnt. Streets in Sheets of Flame. Melbourne
The temperature in Melbourne to-day reached 106 degrees. The sky was overcast with bush fires and smoke The Fire Brigades had fourteen calls…
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