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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires
245 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 13
At about 2.16 this morning, a fire was noticed In Messrs. Reid, Smith’s Ltd. bulk store, situated at the rear of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 10.45 o'clock on Saturday night a fire was discovered in a room on the side verandah of "Sunrise," the well-known residence of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Apparently deliberate,and in most cases apparently successful, efforts were made on Saturday night to destroy five business premises in various parts of tHe town. So extensive has been the damage that to-night every building in the town is carefully…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A big fire has been raging for some days in the hills around Koorawatha. We understand that one settler was burnt completely out. 50,000 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday, while the bush fire was at its height, the alarm of fire was. given In town, and It was found to be in some grass near the town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amongst these who visited the scene of the big bush fire during the week end from Cowra We noticed the Mayor (Ald. Whitby), who was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday morning last a grass fire started on Mr R. B. Nilon's property, near Merringreen. and spread from there to the property known as Hume's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Friday afternoon last fire broke out on Mr. Fred Grellman's property on the Wamboyne road, and about 500 acres of grass and a large amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Friday a bush fire broke out on Captain Rae’s property, near Koorawatha, and spread with such alarming rapidity that night and the following day, that the whole of the country for a distance of many miles was menaced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grim tragedy added to the terrors of fire fighting in the Breakfast Creek section on Sunday night, when more than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday morning, about 1 o'clock, Mrs. G. J. Woods noticed the reflection of a fire which appeared to be near the site of the old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One serious fatality struck a tragic note when a man named Bob Pratt, employed by D. Kelly, of "Newhaven Park," was killed instantaneously by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grim tragedy stalked amongst the fire fighters engaged in battling with the flames which were consuming everything before…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When a fire broke out about midday on Friday on Mr. N. G. Rae's property at Crowther, it was the start of a conflagration that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A bush fire broke out on an unoccupied property last week. A number of willing workers and Messrs. Fowler and Taylor's water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stanley Salines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Saines, of Monteagle, fractured a leg when he fell off a lorry while fighting bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two fires of mysterious origin broke out In Forbes last Wednesday night, one endangering the Vandenberg Hotel, In Court St.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One of the largest funeral Frogmore has seen was that on Tuesday of Mr. Robert Platt, whose tragic on Sunday shocked the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The township of Koorawatha, which has been menaced by, fires for two days, is now believed to be out of danger, although at one stage tthe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Melbourne message states: Persons escaped in their night attire when the Racecourse Hotel at Werribee was destroyed by fire…
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