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

Fires & bushfires, 1902

229 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 12

Fire at Run of Water

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 4

Early on Friday morning the house at Run of Water on the Yass Road, owned and occupied by Mr. Christy Holt, dairyman, was with the greater part of its contents…

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The Broken-hill Fires

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 April 1902 · page 2

BROWN HILL. Saturday.—The peculiar circumstances surrouding in recent acquence of firos in Chapple-lane have been receiving the closest attention of the police, with the result…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. A Collier on Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 4

THE steam collier Illaroo was on fire early this morning at Parbury's wharf, but the flames were soon extinguished. The Late Mr. Lewis Lloyd…

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Fire at Boxer's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 4

The kitchen of a house at Boxer's Creek occupied by a man named Beeper was with its contents destroyed by fire last night Amongst the contents was a quantity of food, also a…

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Fire in Brisbane

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 April 1902 · page 3

ABOUT 12.20 yesterday morning, a fire broke out in a building used by Hoffnung and Co. as a bulk store in Charlotte-street, Brisbane. After the flames had been raging for about…

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Destructive Fire at Pyrmont £10,000 Damage

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 April 1902 · page 3

SHORTLY after five o'clock on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in a block of buildings at Pyrmont, and before the flames were subdued several timber yards, a furniture…

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Big Fire at Pyrmont

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 April 1902 · page 4

Flames laid hold of a thickly-built section of Pyrmont on Saturday afternoon; and in a brief space of an hour from the discovery of the fire lid damage to the extent of nearly £10,000. Ton firms,…

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Big Fire at Pyrmont. Destruction Approximates to £10,000 .Eight Buildings Affected. Woodwork Factories De Molished

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 April 1902 · page 3

Flames laid hold of a thickly-built section of Pyrmont on Saturday afternoon, and in the brief space of an hour from the discovery of the fire did…

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The Fire at Pyrmont

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1902 · page 2

THE scene of the Pyrmont fire was visited by a large number of people on Monday. Beyond a few charred pillars little remained of the buildings. The firemen who remained in…

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Bush Fire Near Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 April 1902 · page 4

YASS, Tuesday.—Yesterday afternoon a bush fire broke out on Mr. John Roach's property, near Bowning, and caused very considerable damage. The flames got into long grass, which had been…

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A Bowning Blaze

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 17 April 1902 · page 2

There was a brief, but sufficiently destructive bush fire between here and Bowning on Monday afternoon. It seems the fire got away on some land near…

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Yass Fire Brigade

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 17 April 1902 · page 2

A special meeting of members of the Yass Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Tuesday night to consider the class of fire engine to be purchased, and it…

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Fire in Market-street

Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 April 1902 · page 2

AT 4 p.m. yesterday the roof of Messrs. Finlay and Co's offices in Market-street was discovered to be an fire, and the firm's clerk was despatched to the fire station to give the…

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Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 April 1902 · page 4

The shingles on the roof of Messrs. Finlay and Co.'s chambers, Market-street, were found to be on fire about 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The Fire Brigade were…

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Fatal Fire at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1902 · page 2

Young, Monday.—About 10 30 p.m. on Friday a fire occurred at the residence of Mr. D. Normoyle, wheelwright and blacksmith, in Edward-street. Mrs. Normoyle, who was in a delicate state of…

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[Reuter's.] Sydney, Tuesday. Fatal Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1902 · page 2

A fatal fire occurred at Inverell soon after midnight last night. A block of fifteen buildings was consumed, the loss amounting to about £12,000. A man named Charles…

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Fire and Loss of Life

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1902 · page 3

On Friday night last shortly after 10 o'clock the fire bell was set clanging and the cry of "Fire!" ran through the town, a huge body of…

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Fire at Mr. D. Normoyle’s. Sad and Fatal Results

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1902 · page 2

ON Friday night about ten o’clock, a huge volume of smoke, accompanied by a fierce glare, arising in the direction of Quartz Reef Hill, announced to the residents of…

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From Prosperity to Poverty. a Sad Result of a Bush Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1902 · page 4

Perhaps the saddest circumstance resulting from a bush fire is one which occurred in Winnepeg, Canada, in June last year. Benjamin Spencer ploughed in the fields when…

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Fire in London. London, April 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1902 · page 4

A fire occurred this morning recalling in its magnitude the Jewry-street outbreak in 1895. The conflagration gutted three warehouses…

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