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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

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General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Great Fire in Chile LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 2

A brief message from South America states that one-third of the city of Pisagua, in Chile, has been destroyed by fire. The…

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Fixed Bayonets. At a Fire. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 4

A disastrous fire occurred at Blakiston and Co.'s staff stores, Geelong, on Thursday night. The crowd hampered the fire…

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Pit on Fire. lncidents of a Welsh Disaster

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 3

Many thrilling stories cluster round the explosion which wrecked a portion of the Cambrian collieries. Clydach Vale, South Wales. on Friday night,…

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Fire in Chloride-street

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 1

About a quarter past 4 o'olock this afternoon a fire broke out in a sixroomed weatherboard house situated or the crcst of the hill at the western…

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Big Melbourne Fire, Damage, £15,000. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 2

About 2 o'clock this morning John Buncle and Sons' agricultural machinery works at North Melbourne were destroyed by…

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'Rats and a Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sedney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 1

' Ross's goodshod at Maclen, on the Clarence, was destroyed by fire to-day. The fire originated through rats guawing matches…

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The Melbourne Fire. Damage,£30,000 [By TELEGRAPH.] MELBOURNE.Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 1

The fire at Buncle's machinery works to-day is estimated to have caused, damage amounting to £30,000, The inBurances only, total £0400…

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A Fatal Fire. [By Telegraph.] Wellington

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 May 1905 · page 2

A boarding-house at Gore was destroyed by fire last night. The remains of James Beck (60), a farm laborer, were found in the…

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State Fire Insurance

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 7

The Premier of New Zealand pronounces State fire insurance in that colony to have been a great success. Those who at its introduction were…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, June 3, 1905, Fire Insurance Rates

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

PEOPLE in Broken Hill will sympathise with the New Zealand Government in organising a department to carry on fire insurance…

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The Commonwealth Fire Brigade Service. Fire Alarms and Telephones

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 June 1905 · page 3

Perhaps one of the most important features of a large city is its fire brigade system, the existence of which practically spells the salvation of…

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Suffocated in a Hotel Fire. AUCKLAND

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 4

A fire destroyed the Brian Bern Hotel at Thames on Saturday night. Two of the boarders—M'Nab, a well-known Auckland tradesman, and S. Meldon, a…

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Russia and Japan. Operations in Manchuria. a Battle in Progress. Linievitch Enveloped. the Peace Negotiations. Delayed Till After the Battle. the People and the Ozar. a Threat of Revolution. Big Fire in Moscow. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 2

The "Daily, Telegraph's" Tokio correspondent cables that the Japanese forward movement in Manchuria has commenced, and…

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Destroyed by Fire

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 June 1905 · page 2

The Fire Brigade received a call yesterday afternoon to a five-roomed wood-and-iron house near the Consols mine, which by…

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Internal Russia. a Mighty Sensation. Mutiny on a Battleship. Captain and Officers Killed. The Crew Takes Oharge. Fires on a City. Strikers Join the Mutineers, And Possess Odessa. Bulldings and Shlpping Fired. [Reuter's Messages.] I London

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

A highly sensational occurrence is reported from the Crimea. While the Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkin, accompanied by…

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Fell Into the Fire. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 July 1905 · page 2

Mrs.Caroline Spooner, a widow,aged 78, has lived for the past three years in three rooms at the rear of a boot manufacturing…

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A Colliery on Fire. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

A serious colliery disaster is reported from Dortmund, in Prussian Westphalia. The upsetting of a petroleum lamp set portion…

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Fire at a Theatre. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 2

Last night, during a biograph show at Frank Clarks company's entertainment at the Tivoli Theatre, an electric wire fused and set…

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Fire at a Cathedral. Extensive Damage, [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 July 1905 · page 4

A fire occurred at the chapter house of St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral yesterday evening. The fire, before it was got…

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Fire at a Cathedral. Extensive Damage, [By Telegreph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 July 1905 · page 1

A fire occurred at.the chapter house of St. Pauls 'An[?]can Cathedral yesterday evemag, The fire, belore it was got…

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