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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires
49 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 3
A serious fire broke out at daybreak on 7th December morning at Cornell University, Ithaca (U.S.A.), and three students were burned to death, while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire was on the afternoon of the 10th October discovered in the foremost 6-in. shell room of H.M.S. Argonaut at Chatham, and immediately after a 6-in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire was on the afternoon of the 10th October discovered in the foremost 6-in. shell room, of H.M.S.. Argonaut at Chatham, and immediately after a 6-in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Public Opinion" writes on 24th November:- Between last Friday night and the early hours of Sunday morning nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Express" reports that the extraordinary series of outrages, including burglary, incendiarism, and attempted train-wrecking, which has occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Public Opinion" writes on 24th November:— Between last Friday night and the early hours of Sunday morning, nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after 3 a.m. on Monday morning, residents were awakened from their slumbers by the ringing of the fire-bell. On investigation,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The woolshed at Wombin, together with shearing machines and fittings wool-press, and Blackstone oil engine were destroyed by fire shortly after 1…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The following is a true story of a town which owns a small fire apparatus:—Outside the fire limits is a small community that, on petition, received an appropriation for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The blast furnace offices and lab[?] oratory, wooden buildings, erecte[?] three or four years ago were burn to the ground shortly before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late on the night of 9th November, the New York police arrested a youth named Frank Morris, who is accused of attempting to burn a large block of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late on the night of 9th November, the New York police arrested a youth named Frank Morris, who is accused of at- tempting to burn a large block of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs Christina Hooper, of Melbourne Street, North Adelaide, S.A., writes:-- "I am now 53 years of age, and suffered for nine months from bronchitis…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some of the municipal and shire bodies who, under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, which recently came into operation have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Friday morning the Royal Hotel at Cargo and contents were totally destroyed by fire and although the building was insures, the owner,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A special type of motor has been built for a British powder factory, in which precautions have been taken to render the motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridges in the backwoods of America are very prone to take fire. A wooden trestle bridge on the Klamath Lake railroad in Oregon is now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the 23rd of July the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Miss Lucy Moore, aged twenty-six, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the town of Lancaster, fifty miles west, of 'Montreal, four burglars on the.'; night of 25th April broke into the Merchants' Bank by battering in the door…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the town of Lancaster, fifty miles west of Montreal, four burglars on the night of 25th April broke into the Merchants' Bank by battering in the door…
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