Prevention of Fires Along Railway Lines
OWING to the abundant growth of grass, the Haihvay Commissioners feel some anxiety ac to possible fires when the summer sun has dried the herbage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1903
239 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 12
Railway Bush Fires
The Railway Commissioners have had under consideration the necessity of taking [?] to prevent bush fires from breaking out in the grass along the railway lines…
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Nathan Zausmer's bootmaker's house in Hackey-road has been burned, Zusmer's wife and daughter were suffocated, but five other children, though injured, escaped…
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A TERRIBLY determined suicide took place at Mowbraytown, a suburb of Brisbane, about 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. The attention of neighbors…
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Great excitement was caused amongst the miners employed in the No. 2 tunnel of the East Grata colliery this morning, when it was reported that a fire had been discovered in some of the old workings…
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This morning Mr. A. Thomas, general manager at the East Greta Coalmining Company, went down, the No. 2 tunnel of the East East Greta colliery, where a fire was…
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GREAT excitement was caused amongst the miners employed in the No. 2 tunnel of the East Greta colliery this morning, when it was reported; that a…
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With the view of suppressing the outbreak of fire in the old workings of the No. 2 tunnel of the East Greta colliery, operations to this end were actively prosecuted on…
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A fire occurred in a private apartment over the library of the Vatican on Saturday. Threes rooms were burned. The books and manuscripts in the library were not damaged…
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At the Pope's instance, the Italian fieemen co-operated with the Vatican firemen in quelling the outbreak in the Vatican rooms. A Minister of State and the Mayor were…
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A fire occurred in a crowded tenement in New York on Saturday, Twenty-five persons were suffocated, the victims being chiefly women and children…
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Operations towards sealing-off the area of the fire in the No. 2 Tunnel of the East Greta Colliery were actively continued yesterday afternoon and last night. With the services of an able-bodied staff of…
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His Holiness tho Pope personally directed the efforts of the firemen to extinguish the fire in the Vatican. The Codex Marcellianus and some ancient stamps were destroyed,…
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As a result of a fire which broke out in a private apartment over the Vatican Library, in Rome, three rooms wore burnt out…
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An inquest was opened to-day concerning the recent fire at Elder's Hall, Pyrmont…
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Great excitement was caused amongst the miners employed in the No. 2 tunnel of the East Greta colliery on Friday morning, when it was reported thata fire had been discovered in some of the old…
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A fire occurred in a private apartment. over the library of the Vatican on Saturday. Three rooms were burned. The booKs and manuscripts in the library were not…
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The summit of the Kearsage mine in Virginia, U.S.A., is on fire. Seventy-five miners are entombed, and it is feared that every man has perished. Mr. Turner, the…
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At Goornong (Vic.) a Bush Fire Defence Association has been formed. At the inaugural meeting a fire-beater was exhibited which was considered an…
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IN the Molong district considerable alarm is being felt with regard to the possible outbreak of bush fires, now that the rank grass and herbage is…
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