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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
Portland, August 3rd.—A terrible storm of wind, rain, and hail visited Walla Walle on Saturday evening. The storm passed directly over the town, and its track was less than a mile wide, expending its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Naval steamer Delts, from Bermuda, arrived here last evening, bringing intelligence of a fire at Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, on the 11th ult., Nearly the whole of the town was destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne Argus, of Saturday last, contains full particulars of this calamity, from which we condense the following particulars:— The Haymarket Theatre, in Bourke-street,has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out last night in St. Stephen's Church, situated at the top of the hill, in Church-street, Richmond, that at one time promised to rival in elements of excitement the great fire at the Haymarket…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In view of the present terrible conflagration in Chicago, a short summary of great fires that have occurred in various parts of the world in years past, may not be uninteresting:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Toledo, October 4th.—Great fires are raging in the woods along the Toledo and Wabash Railroad. Hundreds of cords of wood and miles of fences are destroyed; aleo several houses, corn fields, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chicago, Sunday, October 8th—12.30 a.m.—The most terrible conflagration which has ever occurred in this city broke out about an hour and a half ago, and, having already swept over six entire blocks, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About ten o'clock on Sunday night, a small barn on Canalport Avenue, not far from Twelfth-street (west side), was discovered to be on fire. It was just such a little fire as has happened a thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Evening News of Tuesday gives the following extracts from later Californian papers to the 16th October, received by the ship St. John, describing the continuance of fearful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While Madison-street, west of Dearborn, and the west side of Dearborn were all ablaze, the spectators saw the l[?]rid light appear in the rear windows of Speed's block. Presently a man, who apparently had taken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The extraordinaay pressure upon our columns since the dreadful calamity at Chicago, the accounts of which have overshadowed all other news of whats[?]ever kind, has delayed the publication of the full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMERICAN journalists are an enterprising race. There is hardly any conceivable "occasion" which they are unable to "improve" in a financial sense—that is to say, by working up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pe[?]htego, Oct: 20.—This letter, to give it a local habitation and name, is dated where Peshtego was. In the glory of this Indian Summer afternoon I look out on the ghastliest clearing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I beg to offer a few remarks on the above in your widely circulating journal, as a fire broke out in my grass paddock at Mount Pleasant, near Hinton. It commenced about…
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