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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1900

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A Fearful Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 3

The large and imposing premises occupied by Love & Co., Bathurst Street (opposite the Cathedral) were on Thursday attacked in the rear by a fire. How the fire…

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Famous Fires

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

In A.D. 70 the greater part of .Jerusalem, Including the Temple, wns burned when the city was stormed and taken by Titus…

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Racing with Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 1

A most exciting account of a race on an engine with a prairie fire in the United states is told in the "Pall Mall Magazine." The narrator of the story had gone on a pilot engine with…

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Destructive Fire at Captain's Flat. Lake George Hotel Burnt Down

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

MR. J. STILL O'HARA brought news into Queanbeyan on Monday morning of the total destruction by fire of Mr. M. W. Goggin's Lake George Hotel, with all its…

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Fire at the Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 2

On Sunday night, at about 12.30, the town of Captains Flat was astounded by a fierce fire which destroyed the Lake George Hotel. The fire had such a start before…

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Fire at the Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 2

On Sunday night, at about 12.30, the town of Captains Flat was astouned by a fierce fire which destroyed the Lake George Hotel. The fire had such a start before…

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A Bank Note Blaze

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1900 · page 4

Many recent attempts to pass off valueless bank notes have failed. Enterprising magsmen anxious to score new means of catching the unwary, would doubtless have been ready…

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Captain's Flat The Late Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 2

In connection with the late destruction by fire of the Lake George Hotel, (a detailed account of which I was unfortunately prevented from sending you owing to the…

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Captain's Flat The Late Fire

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 June 1900 · page 2

In connection with the late destruction by fire of the Lake George Hotel, (a detailed account of which I was unfortunately prevented from sending you owing to the…

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Heroes Who Fight Fire

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 June 1900 · page 2

Mr. Jacob A. Riis, author of “ How the Other Half Lives,” and other studies of tenement-house life, contributes to the “Century” an article on “Heroes Who…

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The New York Fire. Five Hundred Lives Lost

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 2

FURTHER accounts of the great fire at the Hohokon Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than the first reports indicated. The explosion of a…

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Famous Fires

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 1

In A.D. 70 the greater part of Jerusalem, including the Temple was burned when the city stormed and taken by Titus, Jerusalem has been [?] on wholly burned…

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Great Fire at New York. London, June 2

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous that first reports indicated. The explosion of a carboy of acid fired some cotton…

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New York Fire. 500 Lives! 2 Million Pounds!

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated…

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New York Fire. 500 Lives! 2 Million Pounds!

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

Further accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated…

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Fire at Bodellick Stable, Shed, & Horse Burned. Other Property Destroyed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 2

THE coroner has received a telegram from the police at Gininderra reporting a destructive fire a Bedellick on Sunday night last. The outbreak occurred at Mr. James…

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The Hoboken Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 4

Particulars received by the American mail steamer Moana of the great fire at Hoboken Dock, New York, show that there were a hundred men on each of the destroyed…

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Fire on a Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 2

On the voyage of the steamer Cymric from Queenstown to New York a fire of alarming proportions broke out in the forehold of the vessel, and for 36 hours the Crew battled…

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Fire on a Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 2

On the voyage of the steamer Cymric from Queenstown to New York a fire of alarming proportions broke out in the forehold of the vessel, and for 36 hours the crew battled…

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A Tragic Fire. Seven Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 2

A tragic occurence overawed Ballarat this morning. About 1 o'clock when the city was at its quietest, a fire broke out in the large weatherboard grocery store and…

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