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Fires & bushfires, 1902

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A Colliery on Fire. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

A fire broke out yesterday morning in Corrmal colliery four miles north of Wollongong. Owing to the early hour of the outbreak very few men were at…

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Large Fire at Mildura. a Block Destroyed Mildura

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

The most disastrous fire ever known in Mildura occurred this forenoon, while divine services were being held. An entire block of Deakin-avenue, which…

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New South Wales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday. Fire in a Colliery

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

The fire in the Corrimal colliery is still burning. The outbreak is more serious than was at first suppose. NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY…

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Fatal Result of a Panic. a False Alarm of Fire. 115 Negroes Killed. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

An extraordinary disaster has occurred at Birmingham an important town in the state of Alabama. A negro national convention was being…

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Fatal Result of a Panic. a False Alarm of Fire. 115 Negroes Kilded. London, Sept. 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 2

An extraordinary disaster has occurred at Birmingham, an important town in the State of Alabama. A negro national convention was being…

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Fire at North Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

A fire, the origin of which is at present unknown, broke out in a two-roomed weatherboard house in Gardner Street, North Wagga, on Thursday…

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Short Story a Modern Fire

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 16

As the physician, friend, and distant relative of the late Miss Marjory Sedgwick, I ret down in narrative form a connected series of extracts from the…

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Items of News. Fire at North Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

An alarm of fire was rung on Thursday morning last at about 10.30 o'clock, and members of the local brigade ran out the reel, but finding that the conflagration was…

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Fires at Forbes

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 12

The Condobolin "Lachlander," commenting on the above, says:—"The town of Forbes would seem to be an unhealthy sort of place for…

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Short Story a Modern Fire. (Continued from last week.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 16

'Another day of disappointment, and yet not altogether so, for I got the end of a lilt from the siren. After that, however, she could not be induced to favor me. I…

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Our Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Colliery Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 2

A fire at the Corrimal colliery broke out again this morning, and the work has been suspended. VICTORIA…

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Local and General News. Fire on Gregadoo Road

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 2

On Tuesday evening a house on the Gregadoo Road, the property of Mr. F. Lewitz, was burnt to the ground. Mr. Lewitz was away from home at the time…

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The Ballarat Volcanic Eruptions. Probably a Bush Fire

The Junee Democrat · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

The strange stories which reached Ballarat a few weeks ago from the Skipton district, about the extremely hot condition into which the caves on…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

The usual monthly meeting of the Wagga Fire Brigade was held at the Town Hall on the 7th inst., there being a good attendance of members. Captain Strusz occupied the…

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Madame Melba. a Blaze of Jewels. Diamonds Valued at £200,0[?]0

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Not many persons, whether in public or private capacity, and certainly no women before, has received in Melbourne such a welcome as that…

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Short Story [?] [?] A Modem Fire

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 2

Ae the physician, friend, and distant relative of the late Miss Marjory Sedgwick, I set down in narrative form a connected series of extracts from the…

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Shocking Fire Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 October 1902 · page 2

A burning fatality occurred at Mulwala some time between 10 a.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. A dealer named Houry Cornelus, of Cobram, with his son…

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Destructive Forest Fires in America

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 4

The Canadian correspondent of the "S.M. Herald" writting from the Victoria (B.C.) on September 30 says: —"During the past few weeks the Pacific coast from…

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Ambulance Litter. Interesting Meeting at the Fire Station

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 2

ON 26th July last Mr. L. W. Broughton, C.P.S. and Land Agent, made an appeal to the public through our columns for subscriptions with the view of purchasing an…

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