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

Fires & bushfires, 1904

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Great Fire in America. Town of Rochester in Flames. London, Feb. 28

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 3

Owing to defective connections in an [?] motor working a lift a fire start[?] [?] in the premises of a dry goods c[?] [?] in Ro[?], New York State…

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Great Fire in America. London, Feb 28

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 4

OWING to defective connections in an electric motor working a lift a fire started in the premises of a dry goods company…

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Fire at Bimbi

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

Ill luck seems to ever dog the footsteps of Mr. E. Millard, the respected proprietor of the Bimbi saw mills. He has quite a record of accidents and losses which would break the hearts of most men…

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Tremendous Fire at Baltimore. Brick Buildings Last Three Minutes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

Auckland, Thursday.—American newspapers to hand by the mail contain long accounts of the disastrous conflagration at Baltimore on February 7. By midnight a square mile…

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Fire in Auburn-street

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

SHORTLY before three o'clock this afternoon Mr. W. R. Costley's weatherboard stable was discovered to be on fire. A number of residents in the neighbourhood at once set to…

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The Fire Nuisance

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

LAST Wednesday a fire started somewhere in the vicinity of Clentaggart and soon made its way along to Mr Stewart's paddock near Currawong…

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Violent Thunder-storm. a Ball of Fire Sensational Experience

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 4

Wallendbeen, Friday—A thunderstorm passed over portions of the district yesterday, but no rain, which is urgently needed, of any…

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Fire From Phosphorus

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

MR. W. PHILLIPS of Redbridge bag recently had a number of young pine trees destroyed by a fire caused by phosphorus. The trees were planted…

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On Fires

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1904 · page 2

THE fire that occurred at Grafton on Sunday morning, when the lives of five children ranging from seventeen to four were sacrificed, directs attention to the important fact, too…

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Fire in Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, a fire broke out at the residence of Mrs. McNamara, of South Yass, and resulted in the destruction of the whole of the residence of four rooms…

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Destructive Fire at Derrengullen

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last a conflagration took place at Dorrengullen, whereby over seventy tons of hay, the property of Mr. W. E Taylor, of Derrengullen,…

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Fire Outbreak at Parliament House

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

A call was received by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade about noon on Friday to an outbreak of fire at Parliament House, Macquarie-street, Sydney. Knowing the inflammable nature of the…

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Fire in Seoul

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 2

The Palace in Seoul, the capital of Korea has been destroyed by fire. The King narrowly escaped. It is supposed the fire was the work of Korean opponents of Japanese…

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Fire at M[?]ngo

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 2

EARLY on Friday morning a fire broke out in the stable of the property recently owned by Mr. Ye[?]mans at Marengo, and still in the occupation of that gentleman and his family, Mr. and Mrs…

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Short Story The Fire Fiend

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 3
Also in Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate

Fire! Fire! Fire ! A whole street ablaze with it, the heavens lit with it, the air scoring with it, bodies of men and women and children manned, scarred, destroyed with…

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Theatre Fires Programme of Precautions. a Manchester Example

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 4

A Birmingham correspondent scuds the London "Daily Telegraph" copies of the interesting set of rules which are in force at Bordesley…

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Destructive Fire at Golspie

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 2

On Sunday night last a most destructive fire occurred at the residence of Mr. Jas. Keough, at Golspie. The fire occurred in Mr. Keough's sheds…

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Big Fire

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

Marrins wholesaler hardware warehouse at Auckland, New Zealand, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The damage…

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Big Fire in Auckland. £82,000 Damage

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Thursday.—Morrin's whole sale hardware warehouse, which is in the heart of Auckland, was totally destroyed by fire last night, the damage…

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