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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1903

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Welcome Showers of Rain. Fires Diminishing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday. — Welcome showers of rain have diminished the danger in Canada, where immense forest fires have been raging for days…

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Forest Fires in America. Enormous Damage Wrought

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 2

The American forest fires are still raging in the North Atlantic States. The fires extend as far as Washington. The flames have been observed…

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The American Disasters. Great Forest Fires. Enormous Losses. Many Towns Destroyed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday afternoon.— The American forest fires are still raging in the North Atlantic States. The fires extend as far as…

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Great Fire. Motor Cars Suffer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 5

THE Daimler Motor Works,at Cannstatt (near Stntgart, in Wurtemburg) have been wrecked by fire. Sixty new cars, including the…

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Outbreak of Fire at Singleton. a Conflagration Averted. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 5

An outbreak of fire occurred at Mr, W. H' Muttou's drapery establishment early this morning. About five o'clock a orackling noise awakened the housemaid, who aroused Mr. Mutton. The latter…

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Great Fire at Greenock. London, Juno 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1903 · page 3

A great fire has occurred at Greenock, resulting in the loss of seven lives. One million gallons of whisky from the Ardgowan Distillery became alight, and the spirit escaping tan through the streets and…

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Fire at a Drapery Establishment

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 2

Fortunately, fires are of not very frequent occurrence in Singleton, and householders are not alarmed at the "witchig hours of night" by that cry that…

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Great Fire at Greenock a Million Gallons of Whisky Light Death of Seven Persons LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 3

A GREAT fire has occurred at Greenock, resulting in loss of seven lives. One million gallons of whisky from the Ardgowan Distillery became alight,…

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Great Fire at Greenock

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 June 1903 · page 2

A great fire has occurred at Greenock, resulting in the loss of seven lives. One million gallons of whisky from…

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Auckland (N. Z). Terrible Fatal Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 3

The Austrian Boarding House, Auckland, was [?], destroyed by fire early this morning. Three [?] were burned to death, aud their charred [?] were subsequently found in the ruins…

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Destructive Fires

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1903 · page 3

Two grocers shops, one at Newtown find the other at North Sydney, were destroyed by fire only this morning…

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Floods and Fires in Kansas. Many Lives Lost

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 7

Telegrams from Topeka, Kansas, dated Sunday, May 30, and published in the English newspapers just received, give the following harrowing account of The floods and fires…

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Fire in a Goldmine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 July 1903 · page 3

A fire broke out yesterday in the Wahoi goldmine. Five men were imprisoned, but eventually all were released and reached the surface in safety the outbreak being extinguished…

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Fire at Melson Dieu

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 2

It appears that a man named Oakloy has been engaged burning off a portion of the Maison Dieu Estate, where he resided with his wife and two children, and on…

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Fire on a Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 July 1903 · page 3

Nearly 1000 tons of the coal in the hold of the steamer Karamen, reported yesterday to have been damaged by fire at the Albert Docks, has been destroyed. Some of the…

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Destructive Fire. a Big Blaze Averted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 July 1903 · page 2

A fire which caused considerable damage and destruction broke out in the third story of the large bulk and bonded stores of Messrs. A. E. Whittet and Co., general merchants, of West…

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American Scourges. Flood, Tornadoes, and Fire. New York. June 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 July 1903 · page 6

For nearly two months we bare had very remarkable weather throughout the country, accompanied by dreadful disasters in the form of tornadoes, floods, and forest fires,…

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A Great Fire at Manilla. Loss of Three Million Dollars

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 July 1903 · page 1

THE big tobacco factory owned by the Companhis General de Filipinas on Calle Conogo, Paco was nearly entirely destroyed by fire on June 25. The…

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Wireless Fire Alarms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1903 · page 3

As an experiment, wireless telegraphic fire-alarms have been introduced in Brussels…

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Destructive Fire in Maitland. a Big Blaze Averted

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 July 1903 · page 10

A fire which caused considerable damage and destruction broke out in the third story of the large bulk and bonded stores of Messrs. A. E. Whittet and Co., general merchants, of West…

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