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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1893

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Large Fire at Cardiff. London, June 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 2

A large fire has taken place at Cardiff, in Wales. It broke out in the offices of the Cardiff Mail, which were completely destroyed. The flames extended to an adjoining-hotel, a…

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Fire in Train-street

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 3

ON Saturday evening last a wooden house in Train-street, occupied by Mr. T. Lake, boat-maker, was discovered by a neighbour to be on fire. Mr. Lake, his wife, and family were…

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Great Fire in America. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 4

A great fire has broken out at Fargo, in North Dakota (U.S.A.). The damage caused amounts to 20,000,000 dols. Two thousand persons have been rendered homeless…

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Cable News. Fire at Fargo. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 June 1893 · page 4

Telegrams from New York report that the fire which has been raging at Fargo, a town in the northern part of the State of Dakota, continues to spread…

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The Fire in New York. London, June 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

Further particulars with respect to the fire at a New York tailoring establishment state that three of the employee leaped from the fourth storey of the building and were dashed to pieces on the…

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A Clothing Factory on Fire. London, June 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

A fire took place to-day in a tailor's workshop in New York, there being on the premises at the time of the fire some 300 employee and others. Many of these persons sprang from the windows to escape…

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Fire Insurance.— Prompt Settlement of Claim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 3

THE damage done to Mr. F. R. Armstrong's Property in Clinton-street by the recent gas explosion, although only notified to Head Office of the Royal Insurance Co. on Tuesday, has already…

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Destructive and Fatal Fire at the Chicago Exhibition

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 2

DESTRUCTIVE AND FATAL FIRE AT THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION.—Cablegrams report that the cold storage warehouse at the Chicago Exhibition has been burned down. Twenty-five…

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Fire at the Chicago Exhibition. London, July 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 July 1893 · page 4

The cold storage warehouse at the Chicago Exhibition has been burned down. Twenty-five firemen were killed by the sudden collapse of the burning building…

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A Fearful Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 July 1893 · page 2

TELEGRAMS from New York give particulars of a fire, attended with fearful loss of life, which occurred on Monday in the building devoted to the cool storage of…

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Fire in London. London, July 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 2

The fire in St. Mary's Axe, London, has caused damage which is estimated at £500,000…

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Large Fire in London. London, July 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 4

A large fire has taken place at St. Mary Axe, London, resulting in the destruction of 30 small warehouses. There were 200 firemen and 40 engines on the scene…

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A Fatal Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 August 1893 · page 2

COOMA, Monday.—A sad fatality occurred at the residence of Mr. J. J. Devereaux, Rock Flat, Cooma, early this morning. It seems that the house caught fire, resulting in the destruction of…

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Fatal Fire near Cooma

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1893 · page 2

A FIRE attended with fatal results took place at the residence of Mr. J. Devereux J.P. of Hook Flat, near Cooma, during Sunday night or Monday morning. Mr. Devereux has just…

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Fire Brigade for Braidwood

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 August 1893 · page 2

At the meeting of the Braidwood borough council on Monday a resolution was carried that the council should take no action to establish…

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Disastrous Fire in Poland. London, August 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 August 1893 · page 2

A great fire has taken place at Birsk, near Warsaw, in Poland. The barracks, the city halt, a church, and 180 houses were burned down; 700 families are homeless…

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Destructive Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 August 1893 · page 3

A fire occured yesterday morning in the grocery store of Joseph Roberts, 122 Oxford-street, Sydney. The building is of three floors and was…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 3 p.m. Fire at Ashfield

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 16 August 1893 · page 3

A FIRE occurred at Ashfield today, by which a produce store and two slops near the town-hall were destroyed. SYDNEY, Wednesday, 6 p.m…

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Fires in America. London, Aug. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 August 1893 · page 4

A great fire has taken place Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesote, U.S.A. Two hundred houses have been burned, and 1500 persons are rendered homeless…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.3 p.m. Fire at Ashfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 August 1893 · page 4

ABOUT 10 o'clock this morning three shops were totally destroyed by fire at Ashfield. The same premises were burnt down 10 months ago. THE MILLER'S POINT CASE…

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