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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1901

379 stories in Riverina's papers · page 15 of 19

A Mine on Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 2

The Pinnacles Mine, near Broken Hill, is on fire, but particulars are not yet to hand…

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What the Fire Does

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 1

Every keeper of a servants' registry office can tell a cook by her face. Kitchen grease, kitchen vapours, and fire heat almost always produce a red shining…

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Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

Yesterday morning at 2 o'clock the dunging of the fire-bells drew attention to a conflagration at Mr. W. Sterry's baker establishment in Baylis-street…

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Fire in Baylis-street

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

The fire-bell rang out a startling alarm about four o'clock yesterday morning. Nothing, however, was visible to people who hastened outdoors to ascertain the…

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A Mirror Fire-place Screen

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 5

Get an old bed-room looking-glass; it may have been discarded on account of cracks, or dark spots on it (the latter owing to the quicksilver at the back…

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Sydney Electric Trams. Paralysed by a Fire. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 6

The whole of the electric tram system of Sydney has been paralysed by a fire, which broke out at the Ultimo power house this evening, and…

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Lockhart. Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 September 1901 · page 3

Last night the inhabitants were awakened to a state of excitement by a fire, the first which has occurred since Lockhart has become a town. The building…

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Disastrous Fire in Melbourne. a Boot Factory Destroyed. £15,000 Damages

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 September 1901 · page 2

A large boot factory carried on at Port Melbourne by Messrs. William Marshall and Coy. was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. The fire…

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A Mirror Fire-place Screen

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 2

Get an old bed-room looking-glass ; it may have been discarded on account of cracks, or dark spots on it (the latter owing to the quicksilver at the back…

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Fire at a Post Office. the Postmaster Arrested

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

In reference to the fire recently at the Wrightville Post Office, near Cobar, by which registered letters containing £113 remittances from the postmaster were…

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Destructive Fire. a Store and Dwelling Are Burned to the Ground. Narrow Escape of the Owner

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

THE store and residences of Mr. D. D. Vaughan, of South Gundagai, were burned to the ground on Friday morning. "Mr. Vaughan retired to bed…

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The South Gundagai Fire. the Inquest. Orioin of the Firr Unknown

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 2

As Inquest was hold at Finney's hotel on Tuesday morning, before Mr. M. S. Machem, J.P., Coroner, and jury of twelve, touching the fire on Friday morning last, by…

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The Fire at South Gundagai. a Coroner's Inquest

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1901 · page 2

At Finney's Hall, South Gundagai, on Tuesday an inquiry was held into the cause of the fire where by the store and residence of D. D. Vaughan was destroyed on the…

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Fire in a Shop

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 October 1901 · page 2

Early yesterday morning a fire originated in the shop of R. Carroll, tobacconist and hairdresser, Baylis-street, Nowtown. The alarm was given about 6 a.m. by a…

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Local and General News. Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 October 1901 · page 2

About 6 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Dick Carroll, who carries on business as a tobacconist and hairdresser in Baylis-street, was awakened by a neighbour…

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General Cables a Train on Fire. London, Monday afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 October 1901 · page 2

Whilst the Highland express was travelling between Inverness and Perth, the luggage van by some means caught fire…

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Fire. an Early Morning Blaze

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 7

At 3.15 yesterday morning the wild clanging of the fine bells, end the prolonged shrieking of the Gasworks sturgeon hooter, disturbed the prevailing…

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Fire in Morrow-street

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 2

About 3.15 yesterday morning the Newtown fire bell and the "hoot" at the gasworks disturbed the quietude of the early morn by rousing and protracted alarms, the…

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The Funniest Duel on Record. Antics of Two French Fire-eaters

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 5

All Paris is agog for details of a remarkable duel, which, after lasting for three hours on Friday, 18th June, without result, was adjourned till…

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A Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 2

Two-thirds of the balloon portion of Sydney (Cape Breton Island, Canada), has been destroyed by fire…

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