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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1912

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Hotels on Fire. Guests Make Their Escape. Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1912 · page 5

Fire broke out in the Morrison and Velez hotels, which adjoin, and the guests, who numbered about 500, fied for their lives…

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Coal Bunkers' Fires

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 October 1912 · page 4

Investigation at Capetown into the fire which damaged the steamer Canada Cape has again attracted attention to the danger of fires in coal bunkers. The…

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Fighting Near Uskub. Terrible Shrapnel Fire. Corpses Used As Ramparts. Bedgrade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1912 · page 5

The Servians have advanced their headquarter to Uskub. The Servians surprised and routed the Turka at Kurprill after a sharp…

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Fire at Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1912 · page 5

About one o'clock yesterday, a fire broke out in the upper rooms of a two-storey brick dwelling, known as "The Gunyah," situated on the corner of…

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Outbreak of Fire. at the King's Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1912 · page 5

The Newcastle district are brigades received three calls yesterday, the outbreak presenting the most serious possibilities occurring on the stage of the King's Hall…

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Fire in an Asylum. Bravery of Nuns. Die to Save Children. San Antonio

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1912 · page 5

Six Sisters oat Charity perished in a fire which destroyed the Orphan Asylum at San Antonio. The sisters were heroically trying…

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Fire in London. Three Girls Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 November 1912 · page 5

The premises of Barker and Company, drapers, in South Kensington, London, were partially burned early this morning…

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Letters to the Editor. Fire at King's Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1912 · page 7

Sir,—It was reported in your journal of Friday that the recent fire at King's Hall was caused by the lightning fusing are electric wire at the hall. In reply…

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South Kensington Fire. Heart-rending Scenes. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1912 · page 5

There were heart-rending scenes at the fire on the premises of Messrs. Barker and Company is South Kensington…

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Fire in Sydney. Sensational Incident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 November 1912 · page 5

A fire occurred to-night at Bromley House, 360 and 362 Keat-street, city, a building consisting of the ground floor and night stories, in which several companies…

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Fires in Sydney. Extensive Damage. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 4

The firemen at the different metropolitan stations had not long returned from the Kent-street fire, when they were called out at one o'clock to No. 8…

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Fire at Kurri Kurri

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 6

A fire broke out in King's Hall, Kurri Kurri, yesterday morning while the cinematograph operator, Mr. H. Shepherd, was adjusting his machine. It was rather…

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War's Horrors. Massacre and Pillage Towns Set on Fire. Children Burned Alive. Others Die on the Roadsides. Officers Shot for Cowardice. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1912 · page 5

Nasim Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-chief, in a report to the Ministry of War, describes the condition of the army as desperate,…

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Sortie From Adrianople. the Turks Repulsed. Terrible Bulgarian Fire. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 5

Nahil Bey, the commander, of the Turkish reserve, during the last sortie from Adrianople, was captured by the Bulgarians…

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Fire in a Hotel. Five Leap to Death. Los Angeles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 5

A fire has occurred in a Los Angeles hotel, by which five persons were killed. They were guests, and leaped from…

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Bulgarian Outrage. Fire on Civilians. Athens

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1912 · page 5

The Salonika newspapers report that Bulgarian officers, alleging that they were insulted by the Turkish populace, ordered the troops to fire on the…

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The London Fire, Generosity of the Firm London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 November 1912 · page 5

At the inquest in connection with the fatal fire early this month at Messrs John Barker and Sons, South Kensington, a verdict was returned…

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Prince's Baptism of Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 November 1912 · page 10

It is not the modern fashion for princes of the blood to take part in active warfare. In this respect, however, the Balkan, States follow the mode of an older…

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Fire in a Clonmel. a Timely Rescue. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 November 1912 · page 5

A large drapery store at Clonmel, in Tipperary, has been destroyed by fire. The proprietor and is family and…

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Fire in Adrianople, Famine and Anarchy. Sofia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 November 1912 · page 5

It is reported that many buildings at Adrianople are on fire in the vicinity of Selim Mosque. Fugitives say that a state of famine…

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