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Fires & bushfires, 1911

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Mine on Fire. Eighty-one Colliers Below. Rescued Through Air Shaft. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 September 1911 · page 2

A fire broke out in the colliery at Choster-le-Street, County of Durham, on Saturday. Eighty-one miners were below and the greatest anxiety…

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Picture Show Fire. Causes a Stampede. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 2

A fire occurred at a picture show at Armidale. There was a stampede for the doors, and several received slight injuries. The damage amounted to…

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Big Fire at Rio. Rio Re Janeiro

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 5

The National Printing Office has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £600,000…

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Rioting at Vienna Protests Against Dear Food. Foreign Importations Demanded. Troops Fire on the Mob. Vienna

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 5

A socialist demonstration, causing violent scenes, occurred yesterday as a protest against the dear prices for food…

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Dear Food Riots. Socialist Speeches Lead to Violence. Soldiers Fire on People. Numbers Killed and Wounded. Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 2

A Socialist demonstration was held here yesterday in protest at the high cost of food, 50,000 people marching in procession. The violent speeches…

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Gobbagumbaim Fire Brigade

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 2

A meeting of the Malebo section of the Gobbagumbam and District Bush Fire Brigade was held at the residence of Mr. W. H. Plummer on…

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Malebo Bush Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 2

A meeting of the Malebo section of the Gobbagombalin and District Bush. Fire Brigade was held at the residence of Mr. W. H. Plummer on Monday…

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Painful Accident Painter's Clothes Take Fire. Serious Body Burns. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 5

William Thomas Greaves, a painter, while working at the new municipal electric sub-station in Kent-street Kent-street this afternoon, was on the…

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Forest Fires. American Villages Wiped Out. 200 Canadians Driven Into a Lake and Drowned

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 6

As a result of the long drought in North America a wave of flame has this week swept bare much of the denae scrub in Ontario and Michigan, leaving in its wake…

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After the Fire. a Claim for Damages

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 2

An action was commenced in Sydney, in the Banco Court, on Wednesday, before the Chief Justice, Sir William Cullen, and jury, in which Frank…

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Fire Brigade

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 2

During the recent visit of Mr. John Graham, District Superintendent of Fire Brigades, to this town he particularly brought under the…

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Fire In Canterbury. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 3

A fire at Canterbury this morning destroyed grocery shop and a five roomed westher[?]board cottage at the rear. The outbreak was due to a…

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Battleship Blown Up. Fire in Ammunition Hold. 500 Believed to Have Perished Paris

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 5

Intelligence of a terrible naval disaster reached here from Marseilles. A fire which broke out in the ammunition hold of the French…

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Fire at Concert. Almost a Panic. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 2

A panic, with the serious results usually attendant thereto, was narrowly averted at North Carlton, Melbourne, last night, where a…

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Great Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 2

A conflagration has swept over Wicklita, in Vancouver, and damage done to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds; aud two firemen…

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500 Burned. Worst Fire Ever Known in Canada. 6000 HOMELESS

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 2

The disaster caused by the forest [?] which have been raging for several days past in Northern Manitoba is the worst that Canada has ever known (says a…

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The Warship Disaster. Result of Inquiry. Sensational Rumor. Plot to Destroy Navy. Other Mysterious Fires. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 2

Af a result of the deliberations of the Court of Inquiry, constituted immediately after the Toulon holocaust, it is stated that various staff changes…

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Dam Bursts. Township Wiped Out. Heavy Death-rate. Fire Follows Flood. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 2

The township or Austin, Pennsyl-Tania, with its population of 3300, has been swept away by the dart of the Bayliss paper mill, which, containing…

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Anti-militarists Resist Departure of Troops. Soldiers Fire on and Kill Them. Rome, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 2

Hostility to Italy's policy is causing acts of vandalism in various districts. Demonstrators tried to prevent the departure of troops from Parma, and the…

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Queensland Bush Fires

The Worker · Thursday 5 October 1911 · page 29

Heavy grass and bush fires in the Charleville district of Queensland were extinguished by a good rainfall last Thursday night. They had, however,…

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