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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 42
An inquiry was held by the Parramatta Coroner (Mr. Williams) recently into a fire which destroyed the tailoring shop at Parramatta Gaol on December 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A weatherboard cottage in Maitland-street, Stanford Merthyr, owned by Mr. A. Brown, of Stanford Merthyr, and occupied by Mr. John McKerrow, was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cessnock and Kearsley Fire Brigades were handicapped by low water pressure when an outbreak at Kearsley yesterday severely damaged a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A weatherboard cottage of four rooms, owned and occupied by William Dever, of Kearsley, was severely damaged early yesterday morning. The cottage is on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A five-roomed weatherboard cottage at Coronation-street, Kurri, occupied by Mr. Edgar Rees, was completely destroyed by fire late yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hundreds of pylama-clad person early to-day saw 50 firemen fight a fierce fire which threatened to do £500,000 worth of damage to Dalgety's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evidence of how, after she had seen a woman carrying a tin towards a house at Paddington, she had seen smoke issue from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although the old adage, "Where there's smoke there's fire," still holds good, it went very close to being disproved by an incident at The Junction last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In a report to the council of the Newcastle Chamber. of Commerce to-day the Shipping Sectional Committee stated that it considered the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The horrors of fire were described by survivors from the Russian airship V6, which crashed on Tuesday with the loss of 13 lives…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 20 employees will be out of employment annual result of a fire which early this morning destroyed the Rosewood sawmill owned by the estate of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The bridegroom and 35 guests were incinerated at a wedding feast in the village of Sretnitza, says the Belgrade correspondent of the "Daily Mail."…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Stockton Fire Brigade attended a small grass fire on a vacant allotment in Roxburgh-street. Stockton, shortly before noon yesterday. No damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While Mr. Cherry Kearton, his wife and two companions were photographing Hell's Gate Canyon, near Lake Naivasha, a fire swept down the gorge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two men received volt severe injuries early yesterday in a terrific head-on crash between a car and a motor-cycle in Western-road. Mount Druitt. Both vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A one-roomed weatherboard structure occupied by Victor Craft, in Francis-street, West Cessnock, caught fire about 6 o'clock last night. The fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire caused damage estimated at £8000 in the bacon, factory of Green and Company in Addington last night. A small stream running alongside…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Many of the exhibits shown on the stalls of the Vincentians and Daughters of Charity section of the Missionary Exhibition in Newcastle were actually being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage estimated at £8000 was caused by a five in the bacon factory of Green and Company in Addington early to-day. A small stream running alongside the…
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