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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1913

241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 13

A Great Fire. Fireman and Child Killed. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred at Pressburg City, in Hungary, last night, by which 8000 persons have been rendered homeless…

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Fires in Germany. Incendiarism Suspected. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1913 · page 5

Two big timber yards have been destroyed by fire at Lubeck. It is believed that their destruction sad that of a Finnish ship were due…

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Fire in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 5

At a quarter past eleven o'clock to-night an outbreak of fire was discovered in the premises of Messrs. Dowar and Company, manufacturers of rubber goods, at the…

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Outbreaks of Fire. Blaze at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 6

Shortly after eight o'clock on Saturday night the Newcastle West Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in Reay-street, Hamilton, it being reported that…

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Ghent Exhibition. Outbreak of Fire. Brussels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

An outbreak of fire occurred at the Ghent Exhibition, and was not suppressed for two hours. A hundred and fifty square yards of…

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Fire in the City

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 5

At half-past eight o'clock last evening the headquarters are staff received a call to the effect that a fire was in progress at Messrs. D. Cohen and Coy's, Ltd., iron…

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Fire at Tamworth. Tamworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 5

A fire ocurred in Pool-street last evening, at the timber yards of Thorsby. Limited, machinery and timber to the value of about £2000, being destroyed…

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Dispute in Russia. Troops Fire on Villages. Traitor's Vengeance. St. Petersburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1913 · page 5

There were serious results to an intervillage dispute at Yadrinsk over a question of land demarcation. The District Guards used drastic…

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Fire in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 June 1913 · page 5

A fire occurred on Saturday morning in the premises of Messrs. S. Weingott and Sons, waterproof and clothing manufacturers, 174A Sussex-street. The alarm…

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Fires in Bradford. Attributed to Militants. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 5

Six incendiary fires occurred in Bradford on Saturday night. The first was at the offices of the Wool Merchants' Exchange…

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Crime and Fire. Remarkable American Figures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1913 · page 9

About [?] £50,000,000 of property is annually burnt up in the United States. That is anywhere from 8 to 13 times the per capita has sustained through fire by any…

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Fire in Prison

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1913 · page 9

Fire that destroyed four large buildings and caused a loss estimated at 500,000dol. in the Kansas Gaol recently was spread by convicts, who scattered burning papers…

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Attempted Arson. Sensation at Strathfield. Fires in Five Different Places. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1913 · page 4

A daring attempt to destroy by flro.thl residence of Mrs. C. Ramacciotti, "Banavie," Moseley-street, Strathfield, was reported to the Burwood police this…

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Fire in Montreal. Firemen Lose Their Lives. Montreal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 5

A fire burned out a block of buildings containing a sash blind factory. Four firemen were killed and three Injured…

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My Lord the Felon. Chapter Iv. Between Two Fires

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 2

Lord Zoyland had been a mighty hunter in his day, and his private den at the Castle resembled a natural history museum rather than an…

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Fire at Mayfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1913 · page 6

A weatherboard building at Mayfield, near West Maitland, occupied by Mr. Ernest Hungerford, as a grocery shop and dwelling, was completely gutted by [?]re at…

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Aeroplane on Fire. Aviator Burned to Death. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1913 · page 5

An aeroplane was eat on fire by an explosion at Shoreham, in Sussex. Wight, the aviator, was seriously burned, and died from his injuries…

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Destructive Fires. Suffragettes Suspected. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 July 1913 · page 5

The small railway station of Ruchars Junction has been burnt to the ground, only the walls being left standing…

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The Man Who Stole Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 July 1913 · page 8

According to the ancient story, told to us in our school days and repeated to us in our more or less casual reading, the hero who stole ire from high heaven and…

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Fires in America. Mining Camp Threatened. Toronto

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 5

The Porcupine Mining Camp is threatened with extinction by terrific forest tires, Huge areas of the surrounding…

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