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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1902

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Hotel Fire in Chicago

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred in the Lincoln Hotel, Chicago, yesterday. Fourteen people perished in the flames, and 53 others were injured…

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A Big Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 December 1902 · page 3

A telegram from Coonamble states that a disastrous fire occurred there this morning, several business promises being totally destroyed…

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Bush Fires in Tasmania

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 2

Most devastating bush fires are raging at Queenstown, Tasmania, 35 dwellings being destroyed. The in mates lost every thing, and there were…

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A Fire in a Cold Storage Place

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 3

By a fire in the establishment of a cold storage company in Glasgow, damage to the extent of £10,000 was done…

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A Fire King Dead

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 3

Mr. James Shand who for many years occupied a senior position in the firm of Shand, Mason and Co., fire appliance manufacturers died at…

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From South Africa. British Soldiers Under Fire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Already the Pom-pom is trotting out of the farmhouse enclosure and the squadron of Dragoons extending on the plain beyond. The face of…

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Chapter Xxi. Hassaje and the Fire-devil

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 4

Hastings, as soon as he heard in tho Zambodi girl's broken English what new disaster hung over their heads, put his hand under tho…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Another Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 December 1902 · page 5

A fire broke out early this morning in Jago's tobacconist shop, Market—street. The flames were extinguished within half an hour, but not before the whole of the contents were destroyed. The…

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The Bush Fire Season

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1902 · page 6

To the graziers and farmers of this district; the new year will open much more auspiciously than was anticipated a few months back. . There is, generally, an abundance of grass for stock, and not for several…

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Fire at Campion Brothers Bakery. Good Work by the Fire Brigade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 31 December 1902 · page 2

A few minutes alter 11 o'clock on Christmas night the vigorous ringing of the firebell denoted that a fire had broken out, and a bright glare in the…

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