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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
229 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 12
Respecting the fire at Inverell on Tuesday morning, in which Mr. end Mrs. C. Wilson perished, farther particulars state that at daylight, when the fire had died to smoldering embers, a short search…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FIRE occurred this morning recalling in its magnitude the Jewin-street outbreak. The conflagration gutted three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire occurred in Otho-street, Inverell, on Tuesday morning, and resulted in the loss of two lives. Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson both perished in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE most disastrous fire yet recorded in the history of Inverell occurred at an early hour on Tuesday morning, the saddest feature of the affair being that ex-Alderman Chas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some excitement was manifested in Yass on Tuesday morning when news arrived that a bush fire had broken out in the Marchmont paddocks, a few miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass, Tuesday.—This morning as a man employed by Sir. A. D. Middleton, of the Yass Plains state, wan dropping baits from a poison cart, the graces suddenly became ignited owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Hay Fire Brigade's Demonstration on Wednesday, Goulburn No. 2 team won second prize in the four men engine practice, time 38¼secs.; and third prize in the four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members of the Goulburn Fire Brigade who took part in the Hay demonstration this week returned to town last night, bringing with them a number of prizes, comprising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fatal fire occurred at Mainly this morning. An elderly woman was burnt to death. Other inmates had a narrow escape. LONDON, Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FIRE occurred at a cottage in Osborne-road Manly, at 1 a.m. yesterday, and a widow named Martha Fulton, aged 65, was burned to death. When the fire was discovered,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Perhaps the sadest circumstance resultting from a bush fire is one which occurred in Winnepeg, Canada, in Jane last year. Benjamin Spencer, ploughed in the fields…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Mid Gamr [?], Egypt. One thousand houses and 200 shops were destroyed. Fifty persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Destruction of St. Pierre Blotted Out by a Mass of Fire. THE TOWN DESTROYED. LONDON, Friday Afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following additional particulars have been received of the calamitous volcanic eruptions at the island of Martinique, West Indies. The survivors of the British steamer Roraima,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An unusually interesting demonstration will take place in town to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, at the rear of Messrs. Cusack and Palmer's premises, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While a train loaded with naphtha was being shunted at Sheridan, near Pittsburg, the rear can telescoped. A switch light ignited the leaking naphtha, causing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A St Thomas telegram states that thousands of people were killed at St. Pierre, Martinique, by the eruption of Mont P[?]lee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, Wednesday Afternoon.—It is now stated that the number of dead at St. Vincent is 2,000 mostly Caribi. A stream of molten lava, half a mile in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A small fire broke out at about nine o'clock last night in a detached wooden laundry at the residence of Mr. Aus. Lake, Faithfull-street. Mrs. E. F. Thomas gave the alarm, and with others succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last a fire occurred at Messrs Caldwell and Co’s., well known Lake Albert Vineyard, Wagga Wagga, which though of not large dimensions, means…
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