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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1901

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Grenfell. Disastrous Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 3

At the main lead last night the dwelling house, and furniture, including a new valuable piano and all belongings of Mr. G. T. Dumont and those of his sisters and brothers, were totally destroyed by fire…

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The Very Latest. London, Friday. the Fire in Peking

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 3

General Sch[?]artzkoff killed by a falling beak when trying to rescue a dog[?] Count Von Waldersee in suffering from shock. The fire was accidental. Quantities of unique and…

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The Greta Mine. The Fire not yet out. The Mine again Sealed Down

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

The work of opening out the Greta mine has received a check, as it has been discovered that the firs is not yet out…

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The Grieshiem Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 3

The fire at the Grieshiem Election Chemical Works Germany, has been extinguished. The benzine in the reservoir was diverted into the rive…

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A Terrible Fire. At a Chemical Works

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

A GREAT fire occurred on Friday at the Grieshiem Electin Chemical Works, near Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. There were terrific explosions of vats…

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Fire at Chemical Works. Terrible Explosions. LONDON, April 26

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 4

A GREAT fire occurred yesterday at the Grieshiem Electin Chemical Works, near Frankfort on Main. Two terrific explosions of vats of…

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Fire on a Steamer. An Exciting Time

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 3

THE Bielefeld, one of the big cargo steamers of the German-Australian line, bad a somewhat sensational experience in the passage from…

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Fatal Fire. An Australian Burned to Death. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

A FIRE occurred yesterday at a boarding house in Bloomsbury. A daughter of Mr Andrew Rudd, of Queensland, was burned to death in…

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Great Fire in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1901 · page 3

In the great fire at Jacksonville, Florida. 148 blocks of buildings were destroyed. The length of the burned area was 2 miles, and its width was 13 block. Seven lives have beea lost. Twelve thousand…

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Great Fire

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 2

Further details of the fire at Jacksonville, Floridausa go to show that it was much more disastrous in its effects…

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A Fatal Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 3

At the inquest regarding the death of Miss Rudd, who was burned by a fire in a boarding-house at Bloomsbury, London, the jury returned a verdict that the occurrence was accidental, and added a…

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Great Fire. 20 Acres of City Destroyed: £3,000,000 Damages. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 2

A GREAT fire is blazing in the City of Jacksonville in the-state of Florida. There is a great gale of wind blowing,' and fears are entertained for the…

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Great Fire in Florida

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

A terrible fire has discovered at Jacksonville, Florida by whiles 148 blocks of buildings were destroyed. The fire originated owing to a detective electric light were…

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A Fatal Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 3

Seven inmates in the Staffordshire Infirmary have lost their lives in a fire…

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Heaping Coals of Fire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 5

It is reflated of President M'Kinley that during one of his political campaigns he was followed about from place to place by a reported for paper of opposition polities—…

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Big Fire In Sydney

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 2

Early on Sunday morning a fire was discovered by a milkman who was going his round, in Messrs. Tillock and Co.'s grocery ware-houses at the corner of Kent and Liverpool…

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Terrible Fire. Infirmary in Flames. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 4

A TERRIBLE fire is reported from Staffordshire where an infirmary was burut down. It seems that the most elaborate…

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"Don't Fire—It's a Man!"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1901 · page 2

In "Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country" Mr. A. B. Lloyd describes his first meeting with an African pygmy. The meeting very nearly ended badly for the pygmy…

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Howlong. a Destructive Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1901 · page 3

A building used jointly as an hotel and store, was totally destroyed by fire at Howlong early this morning. The damage is estimated at between £3000 and £4000…

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Town Fires in Russia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 3

Innumerable fires in towns and villages have occurred in Russia, and damage to the extent of many millions of roubles has been done. The inhabitants accuse the Jews of originating the fires…

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