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Fires & bushfires, 1897

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Fatal Fire at Cardiff. Three Lives Lost

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

During Friday night a bark house belonging to a man named Samuel Outram, at Cardiff, took fire. Mrs Outram and four children were in bed at the time. Being…

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Intercolonial. [By Telegraph.] Sydney. Friday. Extensive Fire in Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

Messrs. Murray and Coy's printing establishment in Clarence-street was almost completely gutted by fire early this morning, The conflagration spread with great rapidity…

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Broken Hill Monday. the Broken Hill Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

The directors of the Proprietary Mine have increased the reward offered for the discovery of the person who caused the fire at Block 12 to £1000. They also offer a…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1897 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

THE monthly meeting of the Wagga Fire Brigade was held on Tuesday evening, when there were present:—Captain Edney (in the chair), Firemen Ray, Thompson, Molloy,…

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The Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1897 · page 2

SOME four months ago a meeting of citizens was held in Wagga to consider what steps should be taken to re-constitute the then disbanded Fire Brigade, and…

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Fire Inquiry at Currawarna

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 3

An inquest was held yesterday at Currawarna into the circumstances surrounding the fire at an outbuilding used as a store and office on the property of Mr. W. H. Rowe…

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The Recent Fires at Currawarna. Verdict of Arson

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 2

An inquest was bold yesterday at the residence of Mr W. H. Rowe, farmer and grazier, Currawarna, as to the origin and cause of the fire by which a building used as a…

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The Currawarna Fire. the Evidence

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 3

AS already reported, the District Coronor, Mr. G. H. Tempest, J.P., held on inquest, at Currawarna on Friday into the circum stances surrounding the fire at Mr W. H…

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The Recent Fires at Currawarna. the Inquest. Verdict of Arson

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 3

An inquest was held en Friday at the residence of Mr W. H. Rowe, farmer and grazier, Currawarna, as to the origin and cause of the fire by which a building used as a…

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Great Fire in Melbourne. DAMAGES £1,500,000. MELBOURNE, Monday 8 a.m

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

A great fire occurred in Melbourne on Sunday. The whole of a Flinders Lane block, including many large warehouses, was consumed. The damage amounts to…

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Great Fire in London. 100 Warehouses and Offices Destroyed. Estimated Loss £2,000,000. LONDON, Nov. 20

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

A TREMENDOUS fire occurred last night in the Cripplegate part of the city of London, the disaster being the greatest of the kind that has occurred since the Tooley-street…

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Calamitous Fire in Melbourne. a Block of Warehouses Destroyed. Loss Estimated at 1,000,000. Two Thousand Employees Thrown Out of Work

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

EARLY on Sunday morning the most calamitous conflagratiod ever witnessed in Melbourne took place in that city. By a strange conicidence it was exactly 12…

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A Great Fire in Melbourne. a Block Destroyed. a Fearful Spectacle of Destruction. the Fire-fighters Completely Baffled. Flinders Street and Flinders-lake in Flames. Huge Warehouses Reduced to Ashes. Sargood, But[?]es, Nicholl, and Ewen's a Ruin. Damage Estimated at £1,500,000. an Appalling Spectacle

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

At an early hour on Sunday morning—about 2 o'clock—a fire was discovered in the huge business premises of Messrs. Craig, Williamson, and Thomas, in…

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The Great Fire in London. Three Streets Ablaze. 100 Buildings Destroyed. Damage London £2,000,000. London, 20Th November, 4.30 P.m

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

A densely crowded part of East London lying between the Smithfield Market and Finsbury, and within a quarter of a mile of the Guildhall, was devastated to-day by a…

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Great Fires

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 3

Wo were apprised by wire on Monday morning of a tremendous Ore in Melbourne, by which the whole of a block of buildings was destroyed. Flinders Line…

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Great London Fire. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 4

A DISASTROUS conflagation took place in London early on Saturday morning, resulting in immense destruction of property. It is stated to have beep the most extensive…

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Big Fire in Melbourne. MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 4

ABOUT 2 o'clock on Sunday morning a fire was discovered in the business premises of Messrs. Craig, Williamson, and Thomas, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne. In a few…

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[?] [?] [?] [?] Thursday, November 25, 1897. the Great Fires

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 November 1897 · page 2

IN the widespread and spontaneous expression of sympathy with the suf ferers by the simultaneous occurrence of enormous conflagrations in London…

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Fire at North Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 November 1897 · page 2

Shortly after one o'clock on Tuesday a foor-roomed weather-board house, situate in Junee road, North Wagga, belonging to Mr Cornelins Sullivan, caught fire and was…

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