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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1911

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Disastrous Fire. Two Lives Lost. Many Thrilling Incidents

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 13

A big boarding-house in Wellington was burned down early on Tuesday morning. The occupants, numbering about 30,…

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A Church on Fire. People Crushed and Burned

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

A disastrous accident occurred at St. Luis Potozi, Mexico, on New Year's Day. While a New Year's service was being held in a church the…

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Fire Brigade Sports

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 4

The settling in connection with the Sports held on New Year's Day took place at the Brigade Station on Tuesday evening last, Captain W. Fern presiding. The…

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Fire in a Chinese Lodging-house

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

A five-story lodging-house in "China-town," New York, was destroyed by fire on Friday, and six of the inmates were burned to death…

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A Big Blaze

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 8

A fire destroyed the Chamber of Commerce building at Cincinnati. Several firemen are dead and missing. Forty occupants of the building were…

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Disastrous Fire at Coraki

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

The most disastrous fire ever experienced in the history of the town of Coraki took place during the early houra of Friday morning. More than…

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Mail Steamer on Fire. Fremantle

Nambucca News · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 4

A fire broke out on board the German mail steamer Barbarossa when she was three days steam from Fremantle. Before arriving at that port…

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Latest Telegrams. a Te[?]sery Destroyed by Fire. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 7

Whiddon's tannery at Botaliy was totally destroyed bt fire this morning…

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Late News By Wire. Sydney, Tuesday. Fire at the Supreme Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 4

The Supreme Court at the top of King street, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire yesterday morning through an outbreak under the…

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Fire at West Kempsey. Two Buildings Destroyed. Family's Narrow Escape

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 4

RESIDENTS of Kempsey were startled shortly after half-past one on Monday morning by the clanging of the fire bells, and the memory of disastrous…

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The Open Fire

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 2

A fire is a delightful thing, a companion and an inspiration. If my room were kept warm by some wretched modern contrivance of…

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Aboriginals and Fire Water

Nambucca News · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 4

On Friday night Bill Dotti and another aboriginal, who both had been indulging in drink, picked a quarrel with each other Constable Mair having heard of the…

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A Big Fire

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 7

The Customs House at Buenos, Ayres, has been burnt down, and damage done exceeding a quarter of a million sterling…

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Why Some Things Feel [?] Than Others. Fire [?]Hat Will Not Burn

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 7

Why is it that when we put our hand on a piece of steel or marble it feels much colder than a piece of wood immediately next, to it? A…

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Barquentine on Fire

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 29 March 1911 · page 2

A fire broke out last night on board the barquentine Everest Griggs lying in Johnson's Bay. The brigades soon extinguished the Hames, very little…

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The New York Fire

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 29 March 1911 · page 2

The majority of the 150 victims of the New York fire were Italian and other foreign girls who filled the places of strikers…

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Fire Tragedy. Appalling Death-scenes. in a New York Sky-scraper 150 Victims. Crowds Watch Girls Leap to Death. Helpless and Panic Stricken

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1911 · page 5

A hundred and fifty persons, most of them girls, are dead, as the result of a terrific conflagration at the Triangle Shirt-waist Company's…

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Fire Tragedy. New York

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 5

A HUNDRED and fifty persons, most of them girls, are dead, as the result of a terrific conflagration at the Triangle Shirt-waist Company's premises in Washington-place…

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Destructive Fire. SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

Bawden's coach building premises at Adelaide were burnt to the ground. The loss is estimated at £35,000…

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Out of the Fire SYDNEY

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 5

Robert Reardon, of Shamrock Hill, Victoria, found his house on fire, and went to a well close by for a busket of water. In his hurry he fell into the…

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