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Fires & bushfires, 1910

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Fighting Forest Fires. Infantrymen Detailed. London, August 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 41

Great forest fires are raging in Western Montana and Northern Idaho, and the aid of the military in checking thorn has been invoked…

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Balloon on Fire. Occupants Daring Leap. London, August 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 41

A German aeronaut has undergone a terrifying experience at Augsburg, in Germany. He was ballooning, when the balloon caught fire by some means. He was…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Fire at Tram Workshops

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 3

A mysterious fire occurred at the tram-way workshops at Randwick. When the men arrived to begin their work this morning they found the ground floor of a…

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Fire in Jersey City Damage Estimated at £200,000. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 2

A great fire occurred in Jersey City, the second city in New Jersey and opposite New York, of which though in another State, it is really an extension…

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Brussels Exhibition Fire a Smoke That Cost £2,000,000. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 2

The disastrous fire at the Brussels exhibition was ascribed to a short circuit in an electric wire used in connection with an illuminated device at the entrance to…

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Exhibition Ablaze. Several Courts Destroyed. Buildings Blown Up. Sensational Fire at Brussels. London, August 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 42

A disastrous fire occurred at the Brussels International Exhibition on Sunday night. Enormous damage was done, several lives were lost and sensational…

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Artillery Fire Indoors

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 1

Our two sketches show an ingenious apparatus, which is the invention of a French artillery officer, L[?] Ma[?] The country in which the…

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Brussels Exhibition Fire Loss Greatly Exaggerated. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 2

It is stated that the British section of the Brussels exhibition was totally destroyed within five minutes of the outbreak of the fire…

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Brussels Exhibition Fire Damage Greatly Exaggerated London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 2

The Executive President of tie Brussels exhibition has commented on the greatly exaggerated reports of the recent fire, the overstatements being commenced…

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Fire at Picture Show a Panic Averted. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 August 1910 · page 2

A fire broke but in a cinematograph theatre of Kettering, a town of Northampton shire, last_night. A panic threatened to seize the…

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Fire at Buenos Ayres

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 3

A large fire involving considerable damage has occurred at Buenos Ayres. An emporium called the Cindad Londres by some means caught fire. The flames spread…

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Town in Flames. Forest Fires in America. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 August 1910 · page 2

Extensive forest fires are burning in the ranges in the State of Idaho. The flames bore down on the town of Wallace, and despite the strenuous efforts…

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Sixty Mile Wall of Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 2

Further details of the terrible forest fires in the United States convey intelligence of one hundred deaths in Idaho alone. Half of the town of Wallace is still…

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Cablegrams. American Forest Fires Terrible Mortality. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 August 1910 · page 2

The calamitous forest fires in the States of Idaho, Montana, and Washington are gradually spreading. When the latest intelligence was…

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Fires Partly Quenched by Snowstorm

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 2

Latest advices from the North-West of United States which have been ravaged by calamitous forest fires, are of a more re-assuring character…

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Forest Fires in America. Fight of Brave Women. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 2

In addition to the terrible forest fires which have been raging in the North-West of the United States, several other conflagrations have been reported…

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Brussels Exhibition. Fire's Rapid Progress. Losses Exaggerated. London, August 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 41

Lord Lytton, chairman of the British Royal Commission for the Brussels, Rome, and Turin Exhibitions, who is making inquiries into the circumstances connected…

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The Forest Fires in Idaho. Fearful Privations and Sufferings of the Residents. Many Lives Lost. Vancouver

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 1

The Idaho fires are now raging in four States. It is estimated that 3000 men are engaged in the battle with the flames…

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London Fire. Millinery Shop Ablaze. Girls Escape in Nightgowns. London, August 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 28

The millinery establishment of Morley and Lanceley Limited, Upper-street, Brixton, was destroyed by fire on Friday night. A large number of girls were sleeping on…

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Steamer on Fire Sensation at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 5

A serious fire broke out in the steamer Indrani's starboard bunkers in the old coal this morning. As soon as the alarm was sounded nearly every tug in the…

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