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Fires & bushfires, 1897

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Appalling Disaster. Fire at a Paris Bazaar. Two Hundred Killed. London, May 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1897 · page 24

A disaster of a most appalling nature occurred in Paris to-day. A bazaar was being given for charitable purposes, at which 1800 of the elite of Parisian society were present…

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Destructive Fire at Tamworth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 27

A fire of somewhat large dimensions occurred last Tuesday night at Tamworth. It began at the store of Mr. J. A. Martin, and extended thence to the Olympic-hall…

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Fire on a Steamer. Thirteen Men Suffocated. London, May 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 27

The steamer Leona, 2331 tons, owned by Messrs. C. H. Mallory and Co., of New York, has had a disastrous experience on the voyage from that port to Galveston…

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The Paris Disaster. How the Fire Originated. Scarcely a Titled Family Unbereft. London, May 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 26

The dreadful disaster at a bazaar which occurred in Paris yesterday afternoon, and by which no fewer than 200 ladies and gentlemen, many of them members of…

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Disaster at Sea. the Ship Buckhurst Off Fire. London, May 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 27

News has been received of the abandonment at sea of the Buckhurst, 1778 tons, which left Newcastle on February 2 for Panama, in charge of Captain Thompson…

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Fire at Goorianawa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 29

Last month (says the Coonabarabran Watchman) Mr. N. Fetherstone, who has been trapping marsupials on Goorianawa, locked up his house, and with his family…

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Fire at Mount Elliott

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 28

The Courier reports that a fire broke out in premises at Mount Elliott occupied by Mr. Norman Jarvis as a colonial wine saloon. The licensee was not at…

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The District. Fire at Oxley

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 2

Early on Sunday morning a building belonging to the Hon. James Tyson, and situated opposite the Oxley Hotel was burnt to the ground. The building, at one time…

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A Balloon on Fire. Two Aeronauts Killed. London. June 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 26

A shocking disaster occurred at Ber-in to-day. An aeronaut named Woelfert and an assistant were testing an aerial machine invented by the former. They had reached…

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Fighting a Bear with Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1897 · page 14

Not long ago an English hunter and prospector in the mountains of Nevada, being out without a gun, was attacked by a hungry grizzly, and took refuge on the…

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Corowa Fire Brigade

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the above was held at the fire station on Monday evening last. There were 20 firemen present, and Captain Ritchie occupied the chair…

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Banquet to the Fire Brigade

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 25

A banquet was given on Saturday evening to the local winning team at the recent Fire Brigade competition at Newcastle. The affair took place at the Globe Hotel, where…

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Fire at Wahwoon Selection The Inquiry

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3

The coroner, Mr. F. H. Galbraith, presided at an inquiry, at Eli Elwah, on Wednesday, with respect to the origin of a fire by which certain premises at Wahwoon…

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The South Corowa Fire Inquiry by the Brigade. "An Error of Judgment."

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3

ON Monday night last an inquiry was held into the circumstances surrounding, the recent fire at Mr. Elliott's, at South Corowa, and the action of the…

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Fire at a Selection

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 2

THE Police Magistrate held an inquiry at Eli Elwah on Wednesday, with references to a fire which occurred at the residence of Thomas Davies, Washwoon on the 27th…

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The Fire. Meakes and Wheeler's Store Destroyed. Heavy Losses

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 2

This is a year of big things and great events—of broken records and of heavy losses—and certainly it will be memorable in Hay as the year of its recor fire…

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Fire in Hay

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon the premises of Messrs. Meakes and Wheeler, storekeepers, Hay, were destroyed by fire which occurred in the cellar about 5…

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Great Fire in Hay. Meakes and Wheeler's Store Destroyed

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

About fire o'clock on Monday evening, the fire bell was heard to ring, but so feebly that it was scarcely heard, no doubt owing to the fact that the church bell was ringing…

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Large Fire at Hay

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1897 · page 29

The largest fire ever known in Hay occurred on Monday afternoon, when the premises of Messrs. Meakes and Wheeler, general storekeepers, were totally…

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Fire at Oxley

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 July 1897 · page 4

Another fire occurred here last night, when a weather-board untenanted cottage, the property of Mrs. Murphy, of Maude, was burned to the ground…

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