Disastrous Bash Fires
News from all parts of the country report great destruction by bush fires. The Wagga and Gundagai districts suffered most severely, the flames sweeping everything before…
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Fires & bushfires, 1902
115 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 6
Big Fire in Sydney
A fire broke out at Mason Bros' stores, Pitt-street, and for a there was every indication of a di[?]strons conflagration but owing to the spirited work of the brigades…
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A fearful catastrophe is cabled from Liverpool England A train upon the electric railway took fire when approaching Dingle, an underground station, and fried a heap of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Heat Wave. Destructive Fires
A CONSIDERABLE extent of country to the east of Wagga (N.S. Wales) has been devastated by the largest bush fire ever experienced there, and which…
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ON Saturday, Dec. 28th, about 5 p.m., clouds of smoke were Been to be rising in the centre of Oxley Island. It was soon discovered that Mr. Robt. Murray's homestead was a mass of flames. Willing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Fire. Six Lives Lost. Perth
A terrible trageay has occurred at the Day Dawn, resulting in the death of a man and his five children, and the demientia of the unfortunate mother…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fire Legal Point
" Excuse me, sir, but that's a fine legal point that has just come up in West Virginia." " What point is that?"…
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DURING the recent trying weather bush fires raged with a virulence throughout the State that has been rarely equalled: In our own district they laid waste a lot…
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report from the Upper Murray [?] that Riall Brothers, of Coppabella [?]tion, were big losers in the bush fire [?]ich occurred there recently. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Bush Fire on the Wallamba. Mr. G. R. Everingham's Residence, &c., Destroyed. a Serious Loss. Wallamba, Jan. 16
TUESDAY of this week was a fierce day, and one the experience of which is fortunately not common. A strong hot wind blew for several hours, the blast coming away from…
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AN inquest was held at the Court House, F[?]r, on Saturday, the 18th instant, before Mr. W. N. Dove, P.M., District Coroner, as to the origin of a fire by which a home situated at Coomba occupied…
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Wingham Chronicle gives the following account of a destructive fire on the Wallamba:—Tuesday of this weak wu a fierce day, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires. Sydney
Bush fires were reported yesterday from a number of country districts. Great devastation occurred at Hurstville and Belmore. Several…
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A tremendous fire has occurred at Paterson, New Jersey. Twenty-six blocks of the business section and portion of the residential area in the City were destroyed. One…
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On Monday night last, owing to a lamp accident, a blaze occurred in one of the windows of Bates' fruit shop, but fortunately the fire was easily…
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Particulars are to hand of a great firs in Now York armoury. In half-an-hour after the outbreak a ponder magazine exploded with an immense Dumber of cartridges. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steam Fire Engine for Kempsey. Debate in the Council
THE Kempsey Fire Brigade intend, if possible, to secure a steam fire engine for use in Kempsey. At the Council meeting on Friday week, the proposal was debated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Strike of Russian Government Workmen. Soldiers Refuse to Fire on the Mob. London, March 21
A STRIKE has occurred in the Government Arms Factory at Tula, 110 miles south of Moscow. Troops fired blank cartridges at the strikers. An officer ordered the soldiers to use ball…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Her Majesty's Theatre Destroyed by Fire. a Young Woman Killed. Three Firemen Injured. Sydney, Sunday, 6 p.m
HER Majesty's Theatre was gutted by fire early this morning. Mr. J. C. Williamson's losses in scenery and properties amount to about £14,000--as they were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Queensland
As a result of a fire at Childres, Queensland, 22 business place were destroyed. many persons being rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at about £30,000…
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