Man with a Tomahawk. Three People Injured. House Set on Fire. Berrigan
With a tomahawk as his weapon, an unknown man this morning attempted to slaughter three members of a family in their own house. After bela[?]g…
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Fires & bushfires, 1913
171 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 8 of 9
Fire at a Picture Show
A fire at the Lyceum Pictures on Monday evening just after the intermission destroyed the whole of the valuable films, thus preventing thp…
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A fire at the Lyceum Pictures on Monday evening just after the intermission destroyed the whole of the valuable films, thus preventing the…
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About one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the Wellington "Times") a grass fire broke out on the town side of Nanima station, and as a…
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The Forbes firemen were called out last evening towards midnight to a fire on North Hill. The blaze started in an unoccupied house near the…
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A fire was discovered in the hold of the Austrian steamer Joser Agost Foheregig off Cape Otway. The position became so serious that the…
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A BUSH fire started on Sunday afternoon between the Wyalong-Cudgellico and Yalgogrin Roads, travelling towards Yalgogrin. A…
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A fire broke out on Mr. Russell Brown's property near Warren on Tuesday, about mid-day, and at times threatened disastrous results…
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There was a Nelson-like Welshman named Griffith in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne. Griffith was a poor fisherman, whose sloop had…
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A fire broke out in premises ocoupied by Messrs. Stuart, Walker & Sons and Coleman & Sons, in Clarence Street early this morning. The…
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Nearly 20,000 acres of grass country in the Condobolin district has been swept by bush fires…
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The fires which have been raging at "Sunbury," Gobondery, are now extinguished. Some 600 acres of grass were burnt, but fortunately no crop…
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The Paragon Bone Mills, situated at Alexandria, were destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire burned fiercely for three…
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A destructive fire occurred at Wyaloug at about 1.30 on Wednesday morning, by which tho store premises and bulk stores of Messrs…
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Australia has followed the English custom of heating houses by fires instead of hot air --much to the disgust of American visitors, who complain of perpetual colds in the head…
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While George Girvan, a coalman, was lighting his, pipe near Golder's Green tube station, his hands, which were covered with coal dust moistened with oil, caught fire. He…
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Mr. L Judd's farm, about three miles on the Young side of Cowra, was on Tuesday afternoon the scene of a fierce and destructive fire, the origin being…
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On Wednesday morning at about 4 o'clock a fire broke out in the building used as a store and bakery by Mr. N. J. Flynn, Redfern Street, and in about…
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A fire broke out early this morning on the steamer Janus, lying in Woolloomooloo Bay. The contents of two holds were practically destro[?]…
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IT is not generally known in Orange (says the 'Advocate') that the local fire brigade has the voluntary services of a lady, who does…
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