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

Fires & bushfires, 1894

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A Great Fire in Boston. London, May 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 4

Further details in reference to the disastrous conflagration in Boston show that 19 persons were seriously injured during the progress of the fire. Forty children are missing…

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A Coal Mine on Fire. London, Tuesday, 1 p.m

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 4

From New York it is reported that the Aurora coal mine, Michigan, is on fire, and that the lives of 500 men are in danger…

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Fire in Brooklyn

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1894 · page 2

LONDON, May 14.--The Brooklyn Tabernacle, Brooklyn, New York, was destroyed by fire on Sunday. The Tabernacle was found to be on fire some time after the…

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Great Fire in Shanghai

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1894 · page 2

Just before the Taiyuan left Hongkong for Sydney particulars reached there of an extensive fire, almost unparalleled in the history of Shanghai, having occurred. It…

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The Late Fire at the Chicago Exhibition. London, May 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 May 1894 · page 2

The French Government has Instituted proceedings against the directors of the Chicago World's Fair for the recovery of £200,000 as the value of art exhibits damaged by the late fire in the…

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Residence Destroyed by Fire. Melbourne

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 June 1894 · page 3

THE residence of Mr. J. Crooke, proprietor of the Aspendale racecourse, was destroyed by fire this morning…

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A Ship on Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 5

The ship Habitant from New York, borthed at South Wharf, Melbourne, caught fire this morning, and is now being souttled…

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Mr. Betts and the Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 2

THE Goulburn Fire Brigadco Board met yesterday, and on receipt of information that Mr. Betts had resigned his seat consequent on finding it necessary to sequestrate his estate,…

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Mr. Betts and the Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 June 1894 · page 4

THE Goulburn Fire Brigades Board met on Thursday, and on receipt of information that Mr. Betts had resigned his seat consequent on finding it necessary to sequestrate his estate passed a…

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Fire at Jersey City. London, June 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 June 1894 · page 2

The stockyards at Jersey City, United States of America, have been destroyed by fire. Some 5000 sheep which were penned there were burnt to death…

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Fire at Yeager's Wharf

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 June 1894 · page 3

At the inquest, on the fire at Yeager's wharf, Pyrmont, at which eighteen hundred pounds worth of damage was done, the jury, after a deliberation of three minutes, returned…

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Great Fire in London. London, June 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 2

A destructive fire broke out in Finsbury last night. The conflagration originated in a building in the centre of a block of warehouses, and the flames spread with great rapidity…

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Fire at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 July 1894 · page 4

Young, Saturday.—A large wooden building in North Burrowa-street, owned by Mr. Green, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The building was occupied by the owner as a grocery store and…

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Fire at the Public Works Office

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 July 1894 · page 2

ABOUT halt-past 6 o'clock on Monday evening an alarming outbreak of fire occurred at the Public Works Department, Phillip-street. The fire brigades succeeded in getting the flames under…

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Fire at Thalaba

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 2

A FIRE occurred at Thalaba, Tuena-road, on 29th June last, at about one o'clock in the morning, when the general store and its contents, owned by Mr. W. H. Hodgkinson, were totally…

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An Incendiary Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 July 1894 · page 3

COOKWELL, TUESDAY.—A fire occurred to-day at the Malaba Stores, owned by Mr. W. J. Hodgkinson, the building and the whole of its contents being totally destroyed. The premises and the goods…

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Fire at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Yass states that the Yass Dining Rooms attached to the Salutation Inn were destroyed by fire on Friday morning. The owner of the property was Mr. H. J. Burton and the…

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Fire at Burnley.—Gallant Conduct of a Young Man

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A six-roomed house, occupied by Peter Doyle and his family in Burnley, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The eldest son,…

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Fire at the Salutation Inn

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 July 1894 · page 2

ON Friday morning [?] a fire, which threatened at one time to destroy the whole of the Salutation Inn, broke out in the large dining room of the hotel, and situated mid way…

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Fire at Cowra

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1894 · page 3

A TERRIBLE fire occurred at Cowra on Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock. Harry Day's saddlery establishment, Francis Strachan's hairdressing and tobacconist shop, and J. S…

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