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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
288 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 15
Cochrane and Matheson, two small towns in Northern Ontario were horned' this (Sunday) forenoon. One hundred lives were lost, and many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The towns of Cochrane, Matheson, Mushca Station, and Timmins, have been destroyed by forest fires. Porquois Junction and Iomois Falls, two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Canadians towns—Cochrane, Matheson, Kelso, Monteith, Mushca, and Iroquois, all in Northern Ontario —have been literally wiped off the map…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain extinguished the forest fire in Ontario after a hundred square miles of country had been burned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Canadians towns—Cochrane, Matheson, Kelso, Monteith, Muahca, and Iroquois, all in Northern Ontario —have been literally wiped off the map…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The death list in the great bush fires which swept Northern Ontario on Saturday and Sunday, is now claimed to be more than 500 persons. The blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is now estimated that 200 [?] were [?] in the [?] forest fires. Whole families were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Stafford, near Hokitika, Mr. Archibald M'Neil's residence was burned to the ground early yesterday morning. Four children, James (7), William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out last night in the front portion of Mr. W. M'Kenzie's grocery shop, Woolwich-road, Woolwich,, which is used as a post office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Telegraaf" states that a tremendous fire occurred at Acrschot, 20 miles from Brussels, as the result of which great supplies of enemy war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The liner El Eftherea, bound from Salonika to Volo, in Greece, with a cargo of petroleum and 1200 passengers, mostly Greek demobilised soldiers,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The liner El Eftherea, bound from Salonika to Volo, in Greece, with a cargo of petroleum and 1200 passengers, mostly Greek demobilised soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bayley and Sons' tannery buildings in Sydney were destroyed by fire this morning. The damage is estimated at £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first fire in Broken Hill since July 21, occurred last night at a little after 7 o'clock, and as the result a 4-roomed wood and iron house in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about 11.30 o'clock this morning, a heap of sulphur in the South mine acid plant became ignited, but the mine fire brigade got the fire under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As Ottawa official message estimates the damage in the recent forest fires in Ontario at 300 people killed, 700,000 scors of for[?] bursed, and £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Blue Funnel liner Hyson, which arrived at Fremantle on Friday with some of her cargo on fire, is discharging from her No. 5 hold, where the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Full house" is all that need be said of the attendance at the Town Hall last night when the Returned SolSoldiers' Concert Party gave another of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The premises of the Public Service Co-operative Company. Pitt-street, opposite Hordern's, a five-storeyed building, was gutted by fire this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning a two-storied building in Beryl-lane, at the back of Wright Bros.' bakery establishment, was destroyed by fire…
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