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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1900

183 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 10

Fire in a Church

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon a fire was discovered in All Saints Church. A press containing the choir music was found to be on fire by a lady, who, fortunately, was…

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Heroes Who Fight Fire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 5

Mr. Jacob A. Riis, author of "How the Other Half Lives." and other studies of tenement-house life, contributes to the "Contury " on article on "Heroes Who…

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Late News by Cable. London June 1. Fires in Canada

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

Forest [?] in theis magnitede hare [?] in Northern [?] causing [?] distruction of timber…

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A Fire in Quirindi. [?] Saturday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

This morning, [?] four [?] shop in Statiot-street, [?] the [?] and [?] Molotosh and Co.'s [?] to the ground. The shop age used as an…

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A Fire in Quirindi

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Quirindi states that an Saturday morning, about 4 o'clock, a shop in Station-street, opposite the railway station, and next door to…

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Fire at Quirindi

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 2

Early on Saturday morning last a wooden building ia Station Street, Quirindi, adjoining Messrs. P Mcintosh anil Co.'s store. Owned by Mr. James Byrnes, and occupied…

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A Fire in Quirindi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 12

On Saturday morning, about four o'clock, a shop in Station-street, opposite the railway station, and next door to McIntosh and Co.'s large store, was burnt to the ground. The shop was used as an…

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Big Fire in Tasmania

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 2

A fire broke out in the Mount Lyell mine, Tasmania, yesterday. The sample room was destroyed. The damage ia estimated at £20,000…

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Great Fire in New York

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 3

A great fire has occurred at the Roboken Dock, New York. Several of the Norddeutscher-Lioyd steamers were partially burned. The damage is estimated at 2,0000,000 dollars (£4000 000). It is…

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Eighty People Perish, in a Fire, LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 3

A great fire has broken out in Hoboken Dock, New York. The full extent of the damage is not yet returned, but it is estimated that…

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Eighty People Perish in a Fire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 3

A great fire has broken out in Hoboken Dock, New York. The full extent of the damage is not yet returned, but it is estimated that…

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Great Fire at New York. Hoboken Docks in Flames. Steamers Destroyed. Five Hundred Deaths. Scores Drowned. Heartrending Scenes. Terrible Struggles for Life. Marvellous Escapes. Damage Two Million Sterling. London, July 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 3

Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated. The explosion of a carboy of sold fixed some cotton bales…

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The Hoboken Docks' Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1900 · page 3

Gruenoline stories have been published of boatbeen refensing to save men drowing dg the [?] at the Hoboken Docks, New York. It is stated that crews of [?]boats seavebing for loat refesed to…

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Disastrous Dock Fire. Fearful Loss of Life in New York Two Millions Worth of Property Destroyed. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1900 · page 3

LATHER details of the great fire in Hoboken Dock, New York, revea[?] the terribleness of the disaster. It appears that a carboy of acid fired a…

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Terrible Fire in New York. Fearful Loss of Life

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 3

LATER details of the great fire in Hoboken Dock, New York, reveal the terribleness of the disaster. It appears that a carboy of acid fired a number of…

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Famous Fires

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 1
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

In A. D. 70 the greater part of Jerus[?], including the Temple, was burned when the city was stormed and taken by Titus. Jerusalem has been partly or whelly burned…

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Dock Fire Stories. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 4

Many gruesome stories are told in connection with the disastrous fire at the Hoboken Doek, New York. It is aseericd that tugboats ste[?][?]cd…

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A Disastrous Fire. 500 Lives Lost

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

The fire at Hoboken Dock, New York, originated through an explosion of a carboy of acid firing a number of bales of cotton…

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Great Fire at New York. Hoboken Docks in Flames. Steamers Destroyed. Five Hundred Deaths. Damage Two Million Sterling. London, July 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 7

Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated. The explosion of a carboy of acid fired some cotton bales…

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