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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1900

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Raced the Train Against Fire

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 8

William S. Night recently told a very strange story of a chair car in a Chicago Great Western railroad train that was afire and full of passengers with the train at full…

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Late News by Cable. Reuter's Messages. London, Dec. 28. Large Fire at the East India Docks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 3

A large fire occurred at the East India docks yesterday. A warehouse, of 450ft., with its contents. chiefly jute and hemp, was destroyed. The fire brigade used thirteen land and three floating steam…

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Woodburn. Destructive Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 December 1900 · page 3

A disastrous fire occurred here between two and three o'clock resulting int he total destruction of Edward Murray's Richmond Hotel, Robert Priddle's Clarence and Richmond Hotel,…

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Great Fire at Newcastle. Cohen's Bonded Warehouse on Fire. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 December 1900 · page 3

At six o'clock this morning the fire bells gave warning of an outbreak of fire, and it soon became known that Messrs. D. Cohen and Co's bonded warehouse—a large building, four stories high—…

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