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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
18 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers
The weather of late has been exceedingly hot and bush fires all the rage. Large fires have occurred on Thurulgoona, Bundaleer, Tinenburra, and other stations. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →to six o'clock on Saturday fire bell rang out the alarm, Mr. amongery store in Oxley-street discovered on fire. In a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN Rangoon the most interesting event of the Moh[?] Festival is [?]doubtedly the fire-walking. On the 7th night of the last festival, says a correspondent, I started out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HE is a little man, and when his wife woke him and excitedly whispered to him that there was a man in the kitchen he told her to let him stay there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About two thousand houses have been burned in Seriungurr, capital of Cashmere. Eighty thousand people have been rendered homeless in the same city, and two thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at the Theatre Royal. The fire brigades were soon on the spot, but the interior and roof of the building were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In another part of to-day's issue appears the balance sheet of the Bourke Fire Brigade Board for the year 1891. The receipts for the year, which are contributed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lassetter's kerosene bond at Waterloo has been destroyed by fire. Several explosions occurred, the firemen. running considerable risk throughout. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It transpires that the disastrous fire at St. John's, Newfoundland, originated by a match being dropped in a barn. The fire spread rapidly in consequence of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July 11.--Later cables fron America state that it was St. John's, Newfoundland, not St. John, New Brunswick, where the disastrous fire occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire occurred in a school at Berkhamsted, England, on Wednesday. A panic ensued and eight children were crushed to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday evening last, about half past 7 o. Clock, the fire bell rang out lustily, the cause being an alarm of "fire"! loudly raised at Mr. S. C. Davis' Royal Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred in a lodging house in Monmouthshire, England. Eleven persons were suffocated and their bodies reduced to ashes. Others were injured by jumping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great fire has occurred at Horishoff, in Russia, 1000 houses being burned. A great fire bas taken place in New York, causing damage to the extent of £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A great fire has occurred at Rockaway Beach, near Brooklyn. One hundred buildings were destroyed, and many inmates are believed te have perished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire occurred at Milwaukee, United States. Six hundred houses, the gas works and many business blocks were destroyed. Eight thousand people have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the large sheets at the Liverpool paper mills with its contents was totally destroyed by fire last sight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large fire occurred at Broken Hill last night, a row of buildings in Argent-street being destroyed, the principle being Peters' Hotel, kept by Mr Merrifield. The efforts of…
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