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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1914

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Disastrous Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 27 April 1914 · page 2

Saturday's fire at the Oriental Tea Company's premises. Kent Street. did damage estimated at £10,000…

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Great Fire at Manila

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 2

Twenty business houses at Iloilo, Manila, have been burned. The loss is halt a million dollars…

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Fatal Fire at Nambocr. Brisbane

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

A big fire occurred at Nambour by which four shops and the Commercial Hotel, were destroyed…

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BRISBANE, Monday. Disastrous Fire at Cloncurry. Indian Burnt to Death

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 June 1914 · page 2

A big fire occurred at Cloacurry last night. The Post-office, Hotel, eleven shops, and two sample rooms and a cottage were…

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Big Massachusetts Fire. Damage 2½ Millions

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1914 · page 2

Nearly 4000 people are dependent upon the efforts of the [?] Committee, and 4500 are being served in the bread lines;…

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Devastated by Fire. Appalling Calamity in a Historic City

The Bombala Times · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 4

The city of Salem, Massachusetts, rich in historic associations, and notorious for its burning of witches in the latter part of the seventeenth…

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Fire From Heaven

Delegate Argus · Thursday 16 July 1914 · page 4

The possibility that a discharge of fighting may dart a are is recognised in every insurance policy. Yet we were scarcely prepared to hear from forest [?] used by this agency. In one State alone, last…

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Fire at St. Petersburg

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1914 · page 2

Twenty-five houses were destroyed and the conflagration is still raging in the workmen's quarter of St. Petersburg. Four…

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Colliery Fire. Outbreak at Neath. Newcastle

The Bombala Times · Friday 31 July 1914 · page 4

A fire has broken out at Neath colliery, and has gained such a hold that it has been decided to seal the mine down, in the hope of…

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Ship on Fire

The Bombala Times · Friday 7 August 1914 · page 1

Monday morning it was reported in Bega that a steamer had called in at Eden with smoke pouring out of her, the vessel having a fire in her…

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Belgian Fire Accurate

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 August 1914 · page 3

The Belgians fire was accurate, and the Germans were compelled to retreat in great disorder…

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How Balloons Take Fire

Delegate Argus · Thursday 27 August 1914 · page 4

The way in which balloons ore made at present is well calculated to produce electric sparks, says a writer in Cosmos, abstracting an article in L'Industrie…

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Britishers Indifferent to German Rifle Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1914 · page 2

The British troops a are now almost indifferent to German rifle fire. Nearly all the wounded suffered from injuries by…

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Australia a Baptism of Fire. New Guinea Operations. Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 September 1914 · page 2

Senator Millen, Minister for Defence, has received a wireless message from Admiral Patey on board the battleship Australia…

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"Out of the Frying-pan Into the Fire."

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 2

Out of 2000 Germans making a stand in sugar factories, only 200 escaped. The French artillery set a…

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"On Fire" with Eczema. Painful Disease Yielde to Zam-Buk

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 September 1914 · page 4

All sufferer from the tortures of [?] should read and benefit by the experience of Mrs. J. Chandler, of Camphell Street,…

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Buildings on Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 October 1914 · page 4

The railway station, barracks, and many other buildings became ignited, the result of the shell fire…

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Eleven Warships Fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 2

On Wednesday they were under the fire of eleven warships…

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MELBOURNE, Monday. Bush Fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 October 1914 · page 2

Bush fires swept out Sassa-fras and the adjoining districts. Six houses and their contents were destroyed…

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Inter-State News. Telegram to Mercury SYDNEY, Monday. Big Fire at Parramatta

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 November 1914 · page 2

A big fire occurred at 2 o' clock this morning at Meggitt's linseed oil mills, Parramatta. The fire spread rapidly, and the…

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