Cablegrams. Per Reuter. Goal Mine on Fire. Eleven Hundred Deaths. a Frightful Holocaust. Indescribably Awful Scenes. the Work of Rescue. Relief Funds Opened. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2
Further details of the calamitous fires in the coal mines at Courrieres, in tho Department of Pas de Calais, France, are reported to-day…
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The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2
The dreadful fires, which it was thought were slackening off are again raging with fearful vigor, and the operations of the rescue parties have…
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The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2
The fires which have been raging in the Proprietary mines at Broken Hill for some weeks past are increasing in virulence, and are now reported to be…
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The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 3
The adjourned inquiry by the District Coroner (Dr. Shortt), into the circumstances surrounding the fire on Kentucky was held at the Corowa…
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Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2
The town of Courrieres, in the department of Pas de Calais, in France, has been the scene of one of the most terrible colliery disasters recorded for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Coal Mine on Fire. Heartrending Scenes. Hundreds of Corpses Unrecognisable. Mine Surface Resembles a Battlefield. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2
The scenes at the mouth of the pits of the burning collieries at Courrieres, in France, are terrible. A large number of bodies have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Coal Mine on Fire. Funeral of the Victims. Socialist Demonstrations. Mine Other Denounced. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 March 1906 · page 2
After the funerals of the victims whose bodies had been recovered from the collapsed and burning galleries of the Courrieres collieries, the…
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The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 3
A fire broke out this morning at Woonoona, 44 miles south of Sydney, and six miles from Wollongong. The outbreak was first discovered at…
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The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 3
At Kentucky, on the 8th inst., Dr. Shortt, district Cornner, conducted an enquiry into the origin of a fire which destroyed crop of wheat, wheat in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Coal Mine Fires. Entombed MINErS Still Alive. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2
In connection with the recent colliery disaster at Courrieres, France, many engineers assert that men are still alive in the remote galleries of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. Carriages on Fire. London, March 12
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 26
A railway disaster is reported from Goshen, in the state of Ohio, U.S.A. Two trains came into collision, and were wrecked. In addition to the casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Cable News. Mines on Fire. a Vast Furnace Nearly 1200 Deaths. Terrific Explosion. Agonising Scenes. London, March 11
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 26
An awful calamity has occurred in France, where-according to the latest estimate-nearly 1200 men have met a terrible death while at work in the mines…
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The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 2
The woodwork of the broken carriages quickly caught fire from the locomotive furnace, and the scene was one of the most stupendous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mine Fires. the Courrieres Disaster. Nine Hundred Corpses in the Mine. to Be Covered with Quicklime. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 2
It is believed that none of the victims entombed in the colliery at Courieres are now alive. Owing to the impossibility of…
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The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 3
Further particulars are now available in connection with the tragic fire at Rutherglen on Thursday morning last, briefly reported in our last…
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The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 3
At the usual, monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade, held at the Station on Monday evening, an important matter was discussed on the motion…
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The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 6
The monthly meeting of the above was held at the Fire Station on Monday evening last, when there were present Captain P. H. Ritchie (chair),…
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The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 3
The last bush fire of the season broke out on Doodle Coooma paddocks adjoining the railway line, on Thursday week, a spark from an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britt-nelson Films Takes Fire
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 2
At Charters Towers on Saturday, when the cinematograph representation of the Britt-Nelson fight for the light-weight championship of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire in Sydney. Damage £150,000 Edwards, Dunlop and Co. Burnt Out. From Clarence to Kent Street. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 April 1906 · page 2
A great fire occurred in the city at two o'clock this morning, resulting in the destruction of a number of large business establishments, extending from…
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