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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1909

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Fire at Marrickville. Much Damage Done. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 5

Marrickville was the scene of a serious outbreak of fire this morning. Mr. J. H. Davis, pawnbroker, whose shop is in the centre of Commercial-buildings,…

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Disastrous Fire. Three Lives Lost. Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 July 1909 · page 4

A destructive fire occurred in a five-roomed house at Blenheim on Friday night, when Mrs. Taylor and two of her children lost their lives. A servant girl, who first…

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Fire at Cobalt. in Canada's Silver Centre. Great Damage Done. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1909 · page 5

A serious fire on an extensive scale has occurred in the town of Cobalt in [?]ntario in the centre of the now famous silver district…

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District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg Outbreak of Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1909 · page 6

A six- roomed weatherboard house in Martindate-street, Wallsend, owned by Mr. A. W. Trcherne who is at, present, residing in West Australia, was destroyed by are…

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Fire at Toowoomba. Toowoomba

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1909 · page 5

A most destructive fire occurred to-night, when the drapery establishment of Messrs. Piggott and Company, one of the largest drapery warchouses in…

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West Wallsend. the Fire Brigade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 11

The annual meeting of the West Wallsend Fire Brigade was held in the station on Wednesday evening. The president, Dr. J. P. Hocken, presided, and the…

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Fire on S.S. Borkum. Discharging the Cargo. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1909 · page 5

The work of unloading the steamer Borkum, belonging to the North German-Lloyd Company, which put into Mauritius with a tire in her hold, is…

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Fires in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 July 1909 · page 5

Three shops in Lackey-street, Summer Hill, occupied by Mr. Garrett Johnson, furniture dealer and auctioneer, Mrs. E. Houseman, confectioner, ad Mrs. Priestley,…

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Fire at Her Majesty's Theatre Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 August 1909 · page 5

Shortly after ten o'clock this morning, a fire was discovered in Her Majesty's Theatre, Pitt and Market streets. Fearing that the outbreak was going to…

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Fire in Osaka. Many Lives Lost. Thousands of Houses Ruined. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent reports that a fire raged on Saturday throughout Osaka, an important city of Central Japan, situated at the head of the…

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Fire in Osaka. Immense Damage. Buddhist Temple Burned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 5

The recent fire in Osaka was terribly destructive. It covered an area of four square miles, and 13,000 buildings were…

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Fire at Barcaldine. Great Damage Done. Barcaldine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 August 1909 · page 5

A destructive fire occurred at Barcaldine this morning. At about 3 o'clock flames were observed issuing from a baker's store, and before anything…

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Ship on Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 2

Graphic accounts of how the steamship Lord Londonderry went to her doom off the coast of Portugal ,were given by members of the crew. The ship left Huelva…

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Fire Brigades Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 4

The Fire Brigades Bill before the State Legislative Assembly is in many respects a desirable measure. It provides for the equitable defraying…

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Fire at Nowra. Nowra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 August 1909 · page 5

Two wooden buildings, in Kinghorn-street, were destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. One was used as the "Nowra Leader" printing office, and the other was…

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Fire, Dynamite, Rescue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 3

Details of the destruction by fire and explosion of the steamer Eva, of 6000 tons, belonging to Hamburg, were related at South Shields by Captain H. M. Brown,…

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Fire in Glasgow. Destruction of Property. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 5

A great fire has occurred in Ingram-street, Glasgow. A block of business premises and the Albion Hall were destroyed…

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Fire at Hurstville. Old Man Burned to Death. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 5

A four-roomed weather board collage at Hurstville was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour to-day, and the owner and occupier John M'Phee, 73 years of…

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Fire in London. Forty Offices Damaged. State Records Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 5

A fire occurred on Sunday night in a block of buildings at the corner of Cannon street and Abchurch-lane, in London…

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Fire on the Borkum. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 August 1909 · page 5

Captain Stollberg master of the North German Lloyd steamer Borkum, which at when Bremen to-day, reported at when the vessel was out from Natal…

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