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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
323 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 17
Bush fires have been raging in the surrounding country, and the city is overhung with smoke, the River Derwent being invisible. A strong north-west wind carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By a destructive fire at Heyti 3060 inhabitants were rendered homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the great fire in the city on November 19 last, which affected 17 Streets and destroyed 96 buildings, has been concluded. The fire was thought to have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Broken Hill Proprietary Company has granted a Christmas-box of one week's wages to all the under-officsrs and men who since September 12 have worked to heartily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More destructive bush fires have occurred in the Gippsland district. Four farmers were burnt out, extensive damage being done to the grass, fencing houses, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further particulars of the awful bush fires which are still raging in the heavilytimbered and erassed mountainous country in the vicinity of Mount Wellington and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further bush fires are reported from various parts of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires have swept throughout the Rai Valley, between Nelson and Picton. HOBART, Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During a fire at Deptford four children were suffocated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Balmain ferry boats, having finished running at midnight, were moored at the Bald Rock by hawsers. Shortly afterwards the Lady Hampden was somehow fired. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires in the Southland district have destroyed 14 hours in the Round Hill mining township. The damage is estimated at £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The bush fires continue to burn in the eastward and southward. The city is enveloped in smoke, and nothing but good downpour of rain can check the spread of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Innamincka, which arrived from Adelaide yesterday afternoon, met with a mishap owing to the coast line being obscured by the dense smoke from bush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FIRE was discovered about 3 o'clock this morning in Henry Roach'a chaff store, Blende-street. The brigado was soon on the spot, and discovored a quantity of empty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Balmain Ferry Company's steamer Friday Hampden was gutted by fire this morning while lying at Eald Rock The flames spread to two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During a fire at Deptford four children were inffocated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THREE fires were reported in Saturday MINER as happening within the 24 hours. A fourth also occurred during Saturday afternoon at South Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Fire Brigade was called out to its fourth fire in 24 hours about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Thes fire was in a four-roomed wood and iron house in Lane-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The long catalogue of fires was added to at 2 30 this morning by one that at first promised to be the most serious that Broken Hill has suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred at the corner of Hannan and Porter streets at midnight on Saturday in shops owned by Balley and Brown, produce merchants; Miss…
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