Great Bush Fires. Loss of Life. Death in a Whirlwind of Fire
The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 3
" By this time the fire had travelled many miles, bad crossed the Gundagai- road, which is two chains wide, at several places, and bad jumped across the Murrumbidgee River on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires! the Dread of the Australian Bush. Terrible Death Animals Roasted. the Pinkerton Fire
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2
FRIDAY and Saturday were two [?]cessively hot days in these districts: ans on Friday night an immense red glare was seen to the south of the town, and it was feared that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. More Fires
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2
More disastrous bush fires are reported from the country, further homesteads being burnt out. FEDERAL CONTINGENT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Bush Fire. Greht Destruction. Homes Burned Out. Stock Grizzled to Death. Haystacks, Crops and Machinery Destroyed. a Race for Life. a School and a Bridge Burned Down. 300,000 Acres of Grass and Miles of Fencing Gone
The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2
WHAT has proved to be the most destructive bash fire ever known in these parts raged on Friday and Saturday just between wantabadgery and…
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Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2
The various outbreaks in this district had fairly ceased to spread on fresh country by Monday morning. Pretty well everything inflammable in the areas affected had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Big Bush Fire. Countryside in Flames. Damage Estimated at One Hundred Thousand Pounds. Thousands of Stock Destroyed. Selectors Ruined and Homeless. Twenty Houses Destroyed
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2
The bush fire which devastated the eastern portion of the Wagga district on Friday and Saturday last continued its career towards Gundagai. The…
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Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2
It has rarely been the lot of the State to experience such a disastrous bush fire as that which devastated the countryside from Wagga to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grant of Land to Junee Fire Brigade
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2
The secretary of the Junee Fire Brigade has been informed that the necessary formalities are in progress to complete the grunting by the Government of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Fire in Sydney. Mason Bros.' Warehouse Damaged
Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 4
Shortly after 3 o'clock on Monday morning a fire was discovered in the premises of Mason Bros., Ltd., general merchants, in Lower Pitt-street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fatal Bush Fires. Wagga Reports. Wagga
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 4
A CONSIDERABLE extent of country to the past of the town has bee devastated by the largest bush fire ever experienced here, and which dwarfed into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bush Fires. Chaos and Ruin. Settlers Lose Their All, a Fatality at Borambola. Other Men Injured. Thousands of Sheet Roasted. How Did the Fire Originate? Assistance Needed From the Government
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 2
A SIGN of relief escaped the people on Tuesday, at mid-day, when a steady rain settled upon our blighted country, which had for the past three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outbreak on Eunonyha-reenyha. the Fire Crorses the River Oura, Kurragong and Borambola Devastated. 150,000 Acres Swept by FLAMES.(From the Wagga “Advertiser,”)
Coolamon Echo · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 2
The grave fears entertained by pastoralists and farmers in the district regarding the outbreak of bush fires found ample justification on Friday…
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The Temora Star · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 2
THE bush fires which have been raging for some days around Wagga have almost burnt themselves out. The most disastrous (the…
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Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 3
THE fires which have raged for several days around Wagga have almost burned themselves out. They have been even more disastrous than was at first supposed, the…
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Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 2
Sufficient time having elapsed to allow of a muster it can now be asserted that considering the magnitude of the recent fires in the Wagga district comparatively small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General News. the Bush Fire Fatility
The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 3
The fatal burning accident at the bush fire on the Borambola run, Wagga district by which a young man named Curley lost his life, is sad reading. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Disastrous Bush Fire. (To the Editor of the Wagga Advertiser.)
Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 3
SIR,—I have seen a great many bush fires, but never one so fierce or so disastrous as that of last Friday and Saturday. At my son's residence, after the blaze swept past,…
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The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4
The following it a list of the property des [?] J. F. Quilter, Claris Park -- Fencing and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bush Fires. Amount of Damage. £3000 in the Gundagai District. the Nangus Estate, £2000. Mr. J. Burke, £2000. No Assistance From the Government Required
The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 2
ON Tuesday afternoon last. Mr J. F. Barnes, M P and Mr J. M. Dodd (Mayor of Gandagai) waited on the Colonial Secretary in Sydney in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coolness Under Fire
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 6
"Linesman" in his book, "Words by an Eye-witness," describes a stirring incident in the operations for the relief of Ladysmith. The feint attack had been…
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