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Fires & bushfires, 1914

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Tunnel Set on Fire. Train Passengers Burnt. Washington, February 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 42

A message from C[?]udad Juarez, in the extreme north of Mexico, states that it is reported, there that the Mexico and North-western train ran into a burning…

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Bulgandra Fire. Coronial Inquiry

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 February 1914 · page 4

Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., Albury District Coroner, conducted an inquiry at Walbundrie on Wednesday last, touching the death of William Smith, who…

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Fire at Goonambh. Wool Room and Contents Destroyed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 February 1914 · page 2

On Sunday morning at about half-past 8 o'clock tho wool room on Goonambil Station was totally destroyed by fire, together with its contents. The loss to…

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Another Sydney Fire. Damage Estimated at £2000. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 17 February 1914 · page 3

A fire broke out at the establishment of Taylor Bros., produce merchants to-night. The damage is estimated at £2000. Two adjoining premises were damaged…

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Disastrous Bush Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 32

Mr. C. Fuller, one of the officials on the Mount Emu Estate, in the Skipton district, in which the great bush fire recently occurred, visited Ballarat last week, and…

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A Few Bush Fires. "Hillside," Little Billabong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff.—The creeks are all dried up here. we live about 20 miles out of Germanton and about 40 miles from Wagga. The country about here is…

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Fire at Berrigan

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 5

A wire was received here on Saturday morning last that a fire had broken out in a five-roomed tenement at Berrigan belonging to Miss Violet…

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The Ganmain Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 32

At Gamnain on Friday, the district coroner concluded the adjourned inquiry into the cause of the fire by which a number of the principal business places in Ganmain…

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Big Fire at Manilla

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 20

A disastrous fire occurred at Manilla on Friday morning, when M. C. Mackenzie and Son's fine store was destroyed. The cause of the fire is a mystery. When the…

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What Causes the Fires? Not the Electric Installations

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 5

Recently Mr. Arthur A. Cocks, M.L.A., as chairman of directors of the Insurance Office of Australia, Ltd., wrote to the Lord Mayor of Sydney…

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Fire at Berrigan. Narrow Escape of Occupants

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 3

After a lapse of vary many years the clanging of the fire bell aroused the people of Berrigan from their slumbers on Saturday morning last…

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Fire at West Wyalong. Thursday, February 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 21

A big fire broke out in the main street last night and destroyed four wooden buildings (one fifty feet frontage), owned by Messrs. W. Collins, Anderson, Farrell…

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Large Fire at Wyalong. Crago's Flour Mill Destroyed. £8,000 DAMAGE. &l

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 21

On Saturday night about 8.30 a fire was discovered in Messrs. F. Crago and Sons Ltd.'s flour mills, situated near the railway station, surrounded by mallee scrub, and…

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Fire at Bexley

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

Another fire occurred at Glentine street, Bixley, this afternoon. A six-roomed cottage, occupied and owned by Mr. Frank Christmas, was completely destroyed, and…

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Fire at West Wyalong

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

A destructive fire occurred at West Wyalong last night. Three dwellings and the business premises of Erson and Farrell, stock and stock agents,…

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Careless Use of Fire. Defendant Fined £5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

Recently a fire occurred at Mr. Geff. Hetherington’s Carrigan Park, on the Finley-road, and before it was under control several hundreds of acres of…

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Fire Brigade Matters, Chairman of Board of Commissioners in Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 5

When Mr Frederick Flowers, M.L.C., who is the Vice President of the Executive Council and the president of the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South…

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Fires in Sydney, Australian Hat Factory Destroyed. Damage Between £20,000 AND £30,000. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

There was a big blaze at Surry Hills carly to-night, A four-storey building, occupied by the Australian Hat Factory, was discovered on fire. When the brigade…

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Serious Bush Fires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 3

Two bush fires are raging in the hills east of Eldorado. One has been burning for five or six days, and threatening the properties of Messrs. Allen Bros. N. Snow,…

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Fire at Shannonvale

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 3

A fire broke out a Mr. J. W. Tenney's "Burwood" property, at Shanannvale, on Wednesday afternoon last. The machinery shed was totally…

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