The Wyalong Fire
A destructive fire occurred in Main street, West Wyalong, last week and it was only through the determined and plucky efforts of the townspeople…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
83 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 5
Fire and the Drovers. a Narrow Escape. 01400 Sheep Burnt
A party of dravers at Blairmore were compelled to [?] their horses a coosiderable distince to escipe a bush fire No less than 1400 sheep…
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It is notified in the Government "Gazette" that portion of the Court House block of land has been granted the Fire Brigade for the erection of the…
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Papers to hand by last weeks mail bring further particulars of the terrible fire which occurred in a Chicago theatre two days after Xmas…
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Further particulars regarding the Chemulpho fight show that the Captain of the Va[?] was wounded and two officers beside him killed…
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News came to town on Saturday that the fine homestead of Mr James Tout, of Melrose Plains, had been destroyed, by fire. The rumor only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Sensational Evidence. the Late Fire at the Albion Hotel
J. S. M'Comisky appeared en remand under a charge of maliciously setting fire to the Albion Hotel. Mr. A. R. Cummins appeared for…
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Special grants have recently been allotted to several country fire brigades, including those at Parkes and Forbes, by the Chief Secretary. The amount…
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On Sunday last a fire, it is alleged, occurred on the property of Mr Smallacombe, Goolagong road, and extended into that of Mr D. Sinclair, occasioning a…
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Shortly after 3 o'clock last Friday morning, Mr A Cheney's blacksmith's shop, situated at the corner of Chmch and Bogan streets, was discovered to…
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Late on Saturday night as Mr H. L. DeLacey was extinguishing the lights preparatory to closing, one of the lamps was accidentally knocked off its…
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A fire, by which five business houses at McPhail were totally demolished, occurred at an early hour on Wednesday morning. The conflagration…
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At the Police Court held on Wednesday of last week before Capt. Byrnes, P.M., Jno. Board[?]n pleaded guilty as to careless use of fire in January, and…
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The district Coroner—Mr. H. N. Gibson, conducted an inquiry at McPhail, touching the fire which occurred there on the morning of…
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On Monday morning at about 11 a.m., the town was thrown into viollent excitement by the loud ringing of the fire bell. Practically every man…
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On the night of the 17th February, an unoccupied wooden cottage, situated some 2 miles from Trundle, owned by Mrs S. E. Close, of Parkes, was…
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A very clever idea just patented in America is an automatic fire [?], the operation of which is regulated by an ordinary alarm clock…
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At about half-past seven on Sunday evening last a fire broke out in an unoccupied wooden house of 4 rooms on the Molong road, which was speedily…
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Fire! Fire! Fire! A whole street ablaze with it, the heavens lit with it, the air scorching with it, bodies of men and women and children maimed, scarred, destroyed with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traveller. Crimean Simpson, His Baptism of Fire
HE arrived in the Crimea in November 54, shortly after the battle of Inkerman had been fought, and received his ‘Baptism of Fire’ in…
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