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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
533 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 27
The great forest fires with which Northern Ontario in Canada and Northern Michigan in the United States have been swept have exacted a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The disastrous fires that have recently canseal such great havec in the Porcupine mining district of Northern Ontario are ascribed to the carelessness of prospectors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sorious forest, fires, with a frontage of eight miles, are swooping across the country. As far as is known no lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amherst (Nova Scotia), Tuesday.— Serious forest fires, with an eight mile frontage, are sweeping across country. As far as is known, no lives have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The best gas fire is obtained by a number of small jets so arranged that each jet will be fed with pure air, and that the burned gas from the one jet cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forest fires are threatening the existence of two towns in Nova Scotia, and the fight against the flames now seems hopeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An outbreak of fire occurred at the timber yard and cooperage of A.W. Cormack, White Bay, Balmain, this morning. Despite the efforts of a strong contingent from the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three fires occurred at Hambledon, Cairns, on Friday. One was in cane belonging to the mother of the young man who was assaulted by a mob of strikers. Another was in cane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The victims of the fires are believed to include 200 employees in the Dome mine, in the Cobalt district, who were penned in the shafts. Corpses are strewing the streets of South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our cablegrams recently have recorded somewhat heavy losses of life and property in the United States and Canada from floods and fires. It is more than probable,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →San Francisco, Saturday.—Cloud bursts have occurred in Death Valley, following intense heat of 141 degrees. People were driven out before the heaviest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An outbreak of fire occurred at the timber yard and cooperage of A. W. Cormack, White Bay, Balmain, on Saturday. Despite the efforts of a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →St. George's Presbyterian Church at Boulder was totally destroyed by fire carly yesterday morning. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The celebrations in connection with the anniversary of the Constitution were married by a conflagration at Stamboul. Hundreds of houses have already been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires have destroyed 3000 acres in the Fontainebleau forest, and a powder magazine and several villages narrowly escaped the flames. VIENNA, Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The main building of the State Asylum for the feeble-minded was gutted by fire. Some of the patients escaped, but it is believed that a score were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood waters at Blenheim (New Zealand) have subsided after attaining a depth of six feet in the upper town. Dalgety's building was totally destroyed by fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extensive fires have occurred in the Forest of Fontainbleu, where 3000 acres of trees were destroyed. The powder magazines at several villages narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifty thousand people have been rendered homeless by the fire.Sixteen mosques were among the buildings destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An outbreak of fire occurred at the timber yard and cooperage of A. W. Cormack, White Bay, Balmain, this morning. Despite the efforts of a strong contingent from the fire…
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