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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
144 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 8
A DISASTROUS and extensive fire has taken place in New Orleans. It broke out in a thickly built part of the city, and rapidly spread from house to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Acting-Coroner, Mr. H. Crothers, held an inquest Cessnock on Tuesday into the circumstances attending the burning of a haystack, the property of Mr. John Doyle, of Cessnock, on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lasoclt, a village in Poland, has been destroyed by fire. The conflagration was started by an incendiary. 1500 people were rendered homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Meranuie correspondent states that bush fires have been raging there and all around since the 24th instant, clearing everything before it, sweeping away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Ramsay, of Oondooroo Station (Q), has invented an ingenious contrivance to extinguish those bush fires, the terror of which is only too well known to squatters and sheep farmers, on heavily-grassed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In the evening a grand open-air concert was arranged to take place on the Park, elaborate arrangements having been made by the committee to secure its success. The gentlemen forming the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A great fire broke out last night in Broadway, New York. It extended to Bleecker-street. A block of buildings, including the Manhattan and Empire banks, as well as many bouses, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in the back rooms of premises occupied by Mr. Dean, a ganger on the railway, in 10th Avenue, South Singleton. An alarm was at once…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At somewhere about half-past 2 on Monday morning the most extensive fire that has visited the town broke out, and in a comparatively short time burned three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire occurred at Condobolin late yesternight resulting in the total destruction of several business premises. The occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out early this morning at the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company's works on the Parramatta River, at which damage was done to the extant of £1100. The reflection could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out this morning at the Australian Kurosene Oil and Mineral Company's works, Parramatta River. Damage was done to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 2 o'clock on Monday morning a fire was discovered in the back rooms of premises occupied by Mr. Dean, a ganger on the railway, in 10th Avenue, South Singleton. An alarm was at once…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The following, culled from a contemporary, may prove interesting:— A rat gnawing at a box of grease-dipped friction matches ignited the lot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The loss sustained by the fire at Weincott's premises, Kent-street, is estimated at between £12,000 and £14,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The premises of Messrs. Weingott and Son, waterproof manufacturers, in Kent-street, Sydney, were burnt out at an early hour on Tuesday morning. Upon arrival of the brigades at the place at two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire occurred to-day in Compton's Electric Works at Chelmsford, Essex. The buildings and machinery were entirely destroyed; damages, £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous fire at Guildford, Surrey, has burned down Unwin's Paint Works, the whole building, including the crypt, being destroyed. The damage was estimated at £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, was the scene of a nice little gathering last evening, assembled in connection with the naming of the reel recently purchased by the Borough Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the inquest on the body of a girl named Jane Harrison, the jury found that deceased had died from the effects of burns, but how the fire in her clothes originated the evidence adduced did not…
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