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357 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 18
At 3 his morning First Constable Bradley, of Wangaratta, who, with First Constable Mills had been directing those fighting the fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 1.10 p.m. on Wednesday a fire broke out at the 7-mile peg on the Wagga road. The fire started on the PP Board reserve where a quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stating that a serious risk of bush was developing in many parts of the State, the chief Secretary (Mr Baddeley) declared today special precautionary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous bush fire has swept through the Wangaratta district, where following on the bountiful spring there is a very luxuriant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three men and a boy aged about 15 or 16 years, were burned to death on Wednesday evening in the worst bush fire over known in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ten men are now dead as a result of yesterday’s bush fire, which is now under control Three bodies found burned on the Tarrawingee road yesterday have not yet been identified, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One hundred and ten thousand acres of pasture have already been destroyed by a bush fire raring In the Dirranbandi district. It is one of the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifteen men were burned to death, two died when leaping from upper floors, and at least 18 wore seriously injured when a fire gutted a rooming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another of the bush Ore victims, Edward Laurence Seymour, aged 33, telephone linesman, Wangaratta, died this morning in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "Mall" today launches an appeal for the victims of the Wangaratta district bush fire. Nine people are dead and several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday the following subscriptions were forwarded towards the appeal to aid the victims of the disastrous bush fire in the Wangaratta district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Locality to which the fire bridge has been called most this season is to N[?]than Avenue Firemen yesterday attended a fire there on a vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 10 acres of grass were burned on the Howlding road near the Horseshoe Lagoon yesterday morning. It is belleved the blaze was Started by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It cannot be too often reiterated that nine out to ten bush fires are man-made, and the result for the most part of carelessness. The neglected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A bush fire, presumably started by a g[?]s producer, spread from the road four miles from Seymour yesterday and swept through proper[?]y owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another of the bush [?]re victims. Mr Arthur Wellington, [?] in the Community Hospital at four o'clock th[?] afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas fires were a real menace, said the Premier (Mr Dunstan). on his return from [?]n Inspection of the Wangaratta area today. Mr Dunstan has asked the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The local [?]re brigade yesterday received a call at 12.32 p.m. to attend a grass fire on a vacant bl[?]ck on the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late this afternoon a fire broke out among piles of firewood in Wallan railyards. Several hundred tons of firewood were destroyed before the…
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