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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
970 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 49
The terrible bush fives which are raging throughout Victoria have resulted in the loss of 16 lives, while seven other persons are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush fires are still sweeping the whole countryside. The line of fire is estimated to be at least 50 miles long. Between Plenty Ranges and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When a city building of four floors, occupied by Petersen Boeson and Co., Ltd., importers and softgoods merchants, was found to be in flames at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday night about 9.30 p.m. the fire bell clanged noisily and the cry of fire was heard through the town. The brigade turned out with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call shortly before 2 o'clock to-day to Kearsley, where a quantity of scrub was on fire and some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The third Melbourne fire within a week occurred early on Saturday morning, when bedding, kapok, and furniture in the factory of Morris and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The terrible bush fires which are ra ging throughout Victoria have re sulted in the loss of 16 lives, while seven other persons are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Garratts, Ltd., motor works in Australia-street, Camperdown—perhaps the biggest of their kind in Australia—were menaced by a fire which broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The bush fires that have been causing the settlers in Gippsland and the Dandenong Ranges no little anxiety during the past week have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday afternoon a grass fire destroyed a considerable amount of fencing on properties on the southern side of the railway line between Sine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Melbourne message says that all persons who had been reported as missing inconsequence of the bush fires, are now accounted for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →29 persons lost their lives in bush fires in Victoria during the week. Included in the list is a number of young children whose ages range from 9 to 3 years. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Noojee, that three days ago was a prosperous, smiling, and progressive village, noted for its beauty, and with well-founded ambitions to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. W. E. Bull, president of the Victorian brunch of the Telegraphists' Union, dashed into the flames over and over again in his endeavor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firebreaks have been burnt for miles and on Wednesday night 14 men and boys spent the night in protecting the huge hayshed which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The heat wave has been responsible for several outbreaks in fires in the Denman district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Muswellbrook resident who returned home from Yass states although serious bush fires had occurred in that district the heat was not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although reports from the affected areits in Victoria yesterday state that the fires, which renewed their intensity on Wednesday, had again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The bush fires that have been causing the Settlers in Gippsland and the Dandenong Ranges no little anxiety during the past week have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We have been asked to call attention to the necessity for caution, in handling fires during the present dry and hot weather, as well as to warn people…
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