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

Fires & bushfires, 1910

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FIRE. Old Man’s Narrow Escape

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

A small cottage off Lead Street, occupied by an Imperial Army veteran named Harry Wren, was, together with its contents, totally…

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[Reuter's.] Destructive Forest Fires. Great Loss of Life and Property. Vancouver

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 2

The official list of the dead through the forest fires in Northern Minnesota is given as forty. Beandette, Spooner, Pitt, and…

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Fire at Young. H. Chen’s Store Destroyed

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 October 1910 · page 2

At about 5.30 on Monday morning last a fire broke out in a weatherboard shop one of the [?] the early days—In Main-street occupied by H. Chen as a…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. Fire at Newtown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 October 1910 · page 4

Jackson's butcher's shop in Newtown was partly destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates were asleep when the alarm was raised, and escaped from the building in…

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Fire at Major's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 November 1910 · page 4

On Saturday tile Braidwood Police Magistrate (Mr. Giles) held an inquiry at the police office, Major's Creek, as to the origin of a fire which consumed the premises occupied by Barraka[?]…

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Protecting the Orchard Danger of Late Frosts. Smudge Fire System

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 4

"Several years ago" (writes an American orchardist) "after the fruit crop was damaged by a late spring frost, I thought there certainly ought to be…

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Protecting the Orchard. Danger of Late Frosts. Smudge Fire System

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 2

“Several years ago” (writes an American orchardist) “after the fruit crop was damaged by a late spring frost, I thought there certainly ought to be…

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Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 November 1910 · page 2

On Monday night the mill of William Conolly, Limited, was the scene of a fire that might easily have been one of the most serious Goulburn has yet known…

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A Lake on Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 3

The Lake of Waterloo is a phosphorescent sheet of water. 1000 feet long, near Nassau, in the Brahamas. At flight it is like a sheet of living fire if the wind is…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. FIRE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 2

A fire broke out this morning on the premises of Middleton and Company, furniture ware housemen, George-street West. The outbreak was soon quelled, the damage being confined to…

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Scientific Notes. £180 to Fire a Shell

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 5

A writer in the "Army and Navy Chronicle fries the cost of the chief parts of a modern British battleship. The two 12in. turret guns, he states,…

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Terrible Fire. Girls Leap to Death. Vancouver, Nov. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 4

A terrible fire occurred yesterday in a paper box factory of four stories at Newark, New York, 24 girls meeting their death, being either burned or crushed, by falling on the pavement…

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A Benzine Blaze. Berlin, Nov. 29

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

Four tanks containing 1,750,000 gallons of benzine were destroyed in a suburb yesterday. The tanks exploded at intervals of half an hour, affording a magnificent spectacle, which was…

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Burrowa Bush Fire Brigade. Annual Meeting

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 2

The general meeting of the members of the Burrowa Bush Fire Brigade was held in the Mechanics' Institute…

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Fire Brigades and the Elections

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

A long series of questions having relation to the Fire Brigades Board and Parliamentary election day was asked by Mr. Morrish in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday evening…

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Huge Bush Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 6

Deniliquin, Thursday.—The most disastrous fire which has occurred in the district for many years commenced yesterday about noon on Mr. T. G. Wragge's Nariga estate, about 17 miles west of…

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Philadelphia Factory Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 4

The death-roll in the factory fire at Philadelphia on Wednesday was 15. Several of the victims, before being extricated from the debris, were able to converse with their rescuers and…

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Fatal Factory Fires. Firemen and Police Killed. Vancouver, Dec. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 6

In the fire in a factory at Philadelphia the walls collapsed without giving any warning. A number of firemen were buried. Four were killed, and ten others who were rescued…

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Cable News. Disastrous Fires. Many Lives Lost. Chicago Slaughter Yards in Danger. Vancouver, Dec. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 4

A terrible fire broke out in Morris and Company's packing warehouse, Chicago, yesterday. At one time the whole of the stockyards were threatened…

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Fires

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 December 1910 · page 2

A fire occurred at Mr. A. Neal Pearce’s property at Yellangla, on Christmas Day. A shed containing a quantity of bay was destroyed,…

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