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

Fires & bushfires, 1910

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American Forest Fires. London, Aug. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 3

The forest fires in North Idaho, United States, have increased in intensity, and reinforcemnts have been hurriedly rushed to the district. A supply train with 35 men is missing…

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Cable News. Exhibition on Fire. Priceless Works Destroyed. London, Aug. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 3

A disastrous fire has broken out at the Brussels Exhibition. The British, French, and six other sections of the exhibition are burning…

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The Brussels Fire. London, Aug. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 4

The International Machinery Hall, which was threatened by the flames, was saved. Safes containing jewels valued at £600,000 in the Belgian section were recovered intact…

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. the Fire at Brussels

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 4

The articles burnt at the Brussels Exhibition include a collection of antique furniture and ornaments from many private mansions, valued at £50,000; old china from South…

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The Brussels Fire. Damages Estimated at £2,000,000. London, Aug. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 2

In connection with the fire at the Brussels Exhibition. Great Britain has suggested to Belgium that a joint board of experts should apportion the responsibility…

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[REUTER'S.] Forest Fires. a Town Burned. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 4

The forest fires have baffled the soldiers and male inhabitants of Wallace. Idaho. The entire town is burning. The women and children were rushed out by special trains…

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Destructive and Fatal Forest Fires. Thirty Burned to Death. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 2

An area of a hundred square miles of country is afire in Idaho. Thirty people were incinerated at Wallace. There are a thousand refugees. One hundred and eighty members of the forestry…

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The Swagwan. and Bush Fires

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 3

ON Monday last, the MELBOURNE AGE published the following comment which perhaps is capable of -application to other States as well u Victoria—…

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The Great Forest Fires. Serious Loss of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 4

The flames in Idaho are travelling at the rate of a mile per hour, and the wind is blowing a gale. Four hundred and five persons are…

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American Forest Fires. Great Loss of Life. London, Aug. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 1

One hundred people perished in Idaho. Half of the town of Wallace is standing, but there is a solid wall of fire 60 miles wide from Thompson to the Idaho boundary…

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Cable News. American Forest Fires. Many Soldiers Missing. London, Aug. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 2

The flames threaten the town of Thompson, in Montana. Six hundred soldiers, who left Thompson Falls on Saturday to fight the flames, are missing; likewise 300 troops who…

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Artillery Fire Indoors

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 5

Our two sketches show an ingenious apparatus, which is the invention of a French artillery officer, Lieutenant Le Masne. The country in which the…

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Forest Fires. a Novel Proposal. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 4

The authorities at Washington are conferring with the commandant of the coast artillery with a view to the simultaneous firing of big, guns on warships and forts, in the…

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Forest Fires Quenched

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 September 1910 · page 4

Rain is quenching the forest fires in Montana and Idaho. Seventy-three forestry employees are dead or missing. The Union-Castle line and the…

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Two Says of Lightning. Wandering Thundersrorms.death and Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 3 September 1910 · page 7

A remarkable series of wandering thunderstorms raged throughout the South-of England and on parts of the Continent early In the week (said…

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Two Days of Lightning. Wandering Thunderstorms Death and Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 4

A remarkable series of wandering thunderstorms raged throughout the South of England and on parts of the Continent early in the week (said…

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Fire at Temora

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 2

A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Temora on Friday night in one of the main blocks of buildings shortly after 11 o’clock. Eight business places [?] totally destroyed,…

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Fatal Fire. Two Children Burned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 2

Hobart, Monday.—Two little boys, aged respectively 4 and 6 years, sons of Mr. Leshe Cooper, painter, of Longford, met with a tragic death to-day. The father was away…

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Disastrous Fire at Murrumburrah

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 4

IN the absence of a water supply, a fire which broke out in J. Goldman's general store, Murrumburrah, raged unchecked until the stere and a brick…

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Fire at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 4

Yass, Saturday.—An old Imperial army soldier named Henry Wren barely escaped with his life from his burning cottage in Lead-street. It appears when he went to bed he left a candle burning, and…

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