The Weather and Bush Fires
The weather during the last day or two, and especially yesterday, has been hot and trying. Although the thermometer has not registered any great heat, a certain…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
236 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 12
Fires at a Colliery
When the workmen came early on Monday morning to work, the doors of Oakvale colliery, at Rix's Creek, near Singleton, were found to have been broken open, and…
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A fire broke out lately, in the School of Arts' Chess Club, at a time when two local chess players were engaged in a game. The building was speedily filled with smoke and firemen and water and noise…
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When the woikmen came early on Monday morning to work the doors of Oakvale Colliery, at Rix's Greek, near Singleton, wero found to have been…
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An automatic fire kindler, the operation of which is regulated by an ordinary alarm clock, will doubtless appeal to every person whose duties include getting up early to start the…
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A tremendous fire in raging at Baltimore, United States. A large wholesale dry goods establishment and 70 other business houses have been destroyed…
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British insurance companies lost a million sterling by the Baltimore fire…
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After burning furiously for 27 hours the Baltimore fire exhausted itself. About 140 acres in the heart of the city, including the entire business quarter, have been completely…
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The fire on the steamer Augsburg has been extinguished. About half the contents of No. 3 hold were damaged…
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Overell's large drapery establishment in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, was completely burnt out this morning. The damages are estimated at £10,000. Other buildings were damaged by the heat and…
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BRITISH Insurance Companies have lost one million of pounds Stirling by the fire at Baltimore…
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The insurance companies estimate the losses by fire at Baltimore to be 125,000,000 dollars (£25,000,000). Property to the value of 90000,000 dollars was covered by insurance…
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A TREMENDOUS fire is reported from Baltimore, in the United States. A wholesale dry goods warehouse and 70 business houses were destroyed in two…
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The present extraordinary length of grass in the bush, combined with the dry weather and fiercely blowing westerly winds, conduce, with certainty…
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LONDON, Monday.—A trem[?]dons fire has swept over Baltimore, U.S.A. The outbreak originated in a dry goods establishment. Seventy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War. Successes of Japanese. [?] of Russian Ships and Roops. Fire the First Shot. [?] the Situation. London
from Vladivostock states that cruisers are about to run the Port Arthur. It is stated that effective battleships, five cruisers,…
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Bush fires swept the district in many places yesterday. One specially devastating, at Underbank, burnt Fulton's shed of hay and other property…
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A destructive fire of country occurred yesterday evening at Dunolly, a settlement which is divided from the town of Singleton by the Hunter River. It is surmised to have…
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There were rumours of other fires last night, and it was stated a big one was raging at Glenridding. Fortunately we are in a position to state…
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Further details state that the Russian torpedo boats gallantly dashed for the Japanese fleet, but experienced such a terrific fire, that they were…
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