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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1904

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A Mine on Fire. Serious Complications

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 4

Serious complications are threatend in connection with fire at the Wallaroo (S.A.)mines. An alarming subsidence has…

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Disastrous Fire at Baltimore, See House Destroyed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 4

A terrible fire has occured at Baltimore. Six hundred houses were destroyed including to large business houses…

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Disastrous Fire. In Baltimore, U.S.A. Two Miles of Street Swept. LONDON

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 12 February 1904 · page 2

A TREMENDOUS fire has taken place at Baltimore, U.S.A. Commencing in a wholesale goods store it destroyed 70 business houses in two hours. The…

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Bush Fires

The Inverell Times · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 4

News was brought to Inverell this morning that considerable damage had been done through bush fires. It appears that a considerable amount of…

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Terrible Fire

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

A section of the city of Baltimore, a mile long and a quarter of a mile broad, has been completely destroyed…

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Bush Fires

Guyra Argus · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 9
Also in Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser, The Inverell Argus

Bush fires have been raging in the direction of Saumarez (Armidale) for the past few days. Up till Wednesday the flames had been kept pretty…

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Fire at Woodlands

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 2

ON Thursday evening as Mr. D. M. G. M'Gregor was proceeding homeward a reflection of a fire attracted his attention, and urging his horse onward he found that the flames were issuing from…

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Fire at Cottesbrooke. A Threshing Machine Destroyed

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 2

ON Thursday last about 2 o'clock, a fire broke out at Cottenbrooke on Thomas Benton's land, and a threshing machine the property of Messrs. Baguley, Harrison,…

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Bush Fires

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 6

The Armidale CHRONICLE says:—Extensive bush fires have been raging in the vicinity of Everleigh and Invergowrie stations during tho past few…

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Bush Fires

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record, The Armidale Chronicle

Bush fires, urged on by high winds, raged over a big scope of the district last week, doing considerable damage to fencing. On Friday night the whole horizon was illuminated…

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The Chicago Fire. News by the Mail

The Inverell Times · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 8

Mr. L. Roos has handed us a copy of the Los Angeles TIMES of January 1st containing an account of the fire at the Ch[?]go Theatre. The report says:--…

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Bush Fires at Walcha

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 2

REPORTS published in the local paper show that bush fires in the Walcha district have been doing mischief. Miles of fences have been destoryed. At Gola, Mr. Bath lost his stacks of hay, &c., in…

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Bush Fire at Boggabri

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 4

During a large bush fire at Blaikmore, about 1400 sheep, which had just been taken delivery of by the purchasers…

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Careless Use of Fire

The Inverell Argus · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 2

We are constantly receiving complaints as the careless way ia which people are lighting fires on their properties, even without giving the…

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A Destructive Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 4

A fire, occurred at Ballarat last night in the stores occupied by Mr. M'Leod, wholesale merchant, resulting in their complete destruction…

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The Baltimore Fire

The Inverell Argus · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 2

American files which have been received at Auckland give details of the disastrous fire at Baltimore us follows:—…

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