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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1902

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A Mass of Travelling Fire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 May 1902 · page 3

It is now stated that the number of dead at St. Vincent it 2000, mostly Caribi. A stream of molten lava, half a mile…

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A Big Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 May 1902 · page 3

A fire at the Welsbach Light Company's premises at Westminster gutted the place. A thousand employes escaped through the presence of mind of a foremen…

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Glen Innes. Fire at the Courthouse

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 May 1902 · page 3

At six o'clock this morning as J. Souter, butcher was opening his shop be noticed flames issuing from the witness at the Courthouse. He immediately gave the alarm, and Senior-Sergeant Flynn was soon…

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A Terrible Fire. (By Cable]. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 May 1902 · page 3

A FIRE occurred, on the premises, of the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Company, at Westminster, yesterday, when the buildings were gutted. A…

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West Indian Eruptions. Miserable Martinique. a Cyclone of Fire

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 May 1902 · page 5

OWNING to the fresh outbreak of Mount Polee an awful panic occurred among the residents of Port de France. Twenty thousand people rushed…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl's Temptation. Synopsis Op Previous Chapters

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 May 1902 · page 1

The opening chapter introduces the reader to pretty Madge Worsley, a factory girl employee at Messrs Weft and Warpley's, in Park-lane, Leeds, and Jim Cranston, her sweetheart, also engaged at a Leeds…

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The Fire at the Glen Innes Court House. Starlling Evidence

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 May 1902 · page 4

A[?] an inquiry held at Glen Innes on Monday fore the sireumstances of the fire in the Court-house last Thursday morning, the most important evidencs…

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The Glen Innes fire. Startling Evidence

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 May 1902 · page 4

AT an inquiry held at Glen lanes on Monday into the circumstance of the fire in the Court-house last Thursday morning, the most important evidence…

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Destructive Fire at Singleton. Suspicions Entertained. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 May 1902 · page 3

A destructive fire occured in John-street shortly after two o'clock thin morning. when two shops occupied…

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Fire in Singleton

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 May 1902 · page 4

AT about two a.m. on Friday morning, the residents of Singleton were alarmed by the cry of are and the fire bell sounding. A number of people…

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The Fire at the Glen Innes Court House

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1902 · page 2

At an inquiry held at Glen Innes on Monday into the circumstances of the fire in the Court house last Thursday morning, the most important evidence…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl's Temptation. Synopsis of Previous Chapters

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1902 · page 4

The openingchapter introduces the reader to pretty Madge Worsley, a factory girl employed at Messrs. Weft, and Warpley's, in Park-lane, Lee ls, and Jim Cranston, her sweetheart, also engaged at a Leeds…

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Destructive Fire at Sing[?]

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 14

A destructive fire occured in John-street [?] after two o'clock on Friday morning, when t[?] occupied by William Smith (black[?]) William Porter (bootmaker) were totally d[?]…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Fire Aboard Ship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

A fire was discovered this morning on board the ship Mount Stewart, lying at Parbury's wharf, Miller'e Point. Some bage of sulphur became ignited and in a brief period of time the fumes of the…

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Through the Fire; the Tale of a Factory Girl's Temptations, Chapter Xii. Jim Cranston Consults Ruth Roberts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 1

When Jim Cranston had fairly mastered the contents of the letter sent to him by Cecil Warpley, he was completely dumbfounded. What did it…

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The Very Latest. London, Sunday afternoon. a Seriously Destructive Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 June 1902 · page 3

By a fire in the mould left at Chatham Dockyard the drawing and moulds of all current work were destroyed…

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Local News. An Alarm of Fire

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1902 · page 2

At an early hour on Saturday night, an alarm of fire was raised, and the clanging of the fire bell caused numbers of people to rush down John-street, only to discover…

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Serious Fire at Chatham. [By Cable]. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1902 · page 3

A SERIOUS fire has occurred in the mould loft at Chatham dock-yard, and drawings and moulds of all current work were destroyed…

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Fatal Fires

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 June 1902 · page 3

At a fire in St, Luke's Sanitorium, Chicago, ten inmates were killed and 30 injured, including several dilirium patients who were strapped to their beds. An appealing fire broke out in the warehouse of…

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Fire in London. Girls Jump 60 Feet. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 June 1902 · page 2

A FIRE of appalling magnitude, accompanied by numerous fatalities, broke out in the five-storied warehouse of the General Electric…

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