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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1895

6 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers

The Camp Fire

Camden News · Thursday 27 June 1895 · page 1

"The stockman's tea was over, the damper stowed away, And to stretch our weary limbs around the fire we lay…

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A Series of Fires

Camden News · Thursday 29 August 1895 · page 2

On Sunday a remarkable series of fires occurred in the country, and in and around Sydney. At Wollongong a fire broke out in Crown-street at about 7 o'clock, and…

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Destructive Fire at Wollongong. Eleven Houses and Shops Destroyed

Camden News · Thursday 29 August 1895 · page 2

The most destructive fire that has ever devastated this town broke out shortly before 7 o'clock on Sunday night in the premises of Mr. A. Osborne, baker. The…

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Bush Fires

Camden News · Thursday 12 September 1895 · page 6

The sight from the heights of Com den of a night is simply lamentable, yet beautiful to beheld; from every point of the compass can be seen hugh burning bush, impossible…

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Fire at the Tweed Mills, Camden

Camden News · Thursday 12 September 1895 · page 1

On Saturday evening last, whilst Mr. Thomas Wasson and a friend were returning to Narellan, from Camden, and when passing the Tweed Mills, observed a strong…

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POETRY. Out o' The Fire

Camden News · Thursday 19 September 1895 · page 1

Year of 71, children, middle of the fall, On one fearful night, children, we, wellnigh lost bur all. True, it wa'n't no great sum we had to lose that…

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