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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

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Scientific Notes. £150 to Fire a Shell

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 5

A writer in the "Army and Navy Chronicle gies the cost of the chief parts of a modern British battleship. The two 12in. turret guns, he states,…

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Mine on Fire. Serious Gas Explosion

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 5

A SERIOUS explosion of gas occurred in the Killingworth Colliery, in the West Wallsend district, and the mine is now on fire. No one was killed or…

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Outbreak of Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 5

Shortly alter 2 o'clock yesterday morning the clanging of the Presbyterian Church bell, followed shortly afterwards by the fire bell, at the Central Kempsey fire station…

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Bush Fires

The Macleay Chronicle · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 5

Disastrous birth fires have occurred in the Deniliquin district on the Wragge's Narlga estate. The country is devastated 30 miles long and 12…

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Fire Brigade Sports

The Macleay Chronicle · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 4

THE annual Sports Carnival under the auspices of the Kempsey Fire Brigade will be held on Monday next at the Show Ground. Upwards of £70 have been offered…

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Hawes Railway Disaster. Gas Tank Explodes. Carriages on Fire. Students Pathetic Death

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 3

The fire which followed the collision of the Glasgow express with two light engines, on the Midland Railway, near Hawes, Yorkshire, is attributed to the…

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