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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1912

243 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 13

False Fire Alarm. Many Persons Killed. Brussels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 December 1912 · page 5

Many persons were killed and fifty were injured at a picture show at Barraques. It appears that there was an…

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Fires in the Metropolis. Flour Mills Burnt Out. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 December 1912 · page 5

Early this morning, an outbreak of fire occurred at Mr. Joseph Chicken's flour mills in Beresford-road, Strathfield. The call was received at seven minutes past…

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Fire in London. Four Lives Lost. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 December 1912 · page 5

A fire, attended with fatal results, has occurred at Islington, in London, in a tenement house. A man named Alfred Scope, his wife…

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Fire at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 December 1912 · page 5

A serious fire occurred in Argent-street early this morning. The fancy shops of Mr. W. Wicks, and a confectioner's shop owned by Mr. W. Glenn,…

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