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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1913

481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 25

Cable News. the Suffragette Folly Conspiracy Prisoner Released. the Hunger Strike. More Outrages by Fire. Process Onists and Speakers Mobbed. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 2

Miss Laura Lennex, subeditor of the "Suffragette" newspaper, who was one of the prisoners sentenced last week for conspiracy in connection with…

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Fatal Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 4

A block of buildings were destroyed by fire at Montreal. Four firemen were killed and three injured while endeavouring to…

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Explosion on Grain Elevator. Disaster in Buffalo City. a Mile of Buildings on Fire. Buffalo

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 2

An explosion at the grain elevator in the stores of the Buffalo City (U.S.A.) milling company caused the death of three men, while 50 were injured, seven…

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Town's Fire Appliances. Council Refuses New Engine

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

Wagga's Fire Station received yesterday a brand new horse-drawn turbine fire engine with harness and gear complete—apart from the horse—and…

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Town s Fire Appliances. Council Refuses New Engine

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

Wagga fire Station received yesterday a brand new horse drawn turbine lire engine with harnes and gear complete apart from the horse and…

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Turbine Fire Engine Sent to Wagga But Not Wanted by Council

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 2

The secretary of the Board of Fire Commissioners has informed the Wagga Municipal Council, undr date 24th inst., that a horse drawn turbine fire…

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Wagga and the Fire Brigades Board

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 June 1913 · page 2

At a meeting of the Wagga Municipal Council the mayor, referring to the action of the Board in forwarding a horse-power turbine engine, said this…

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General Cables. Serious Fire. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 July 1913 · page 2

The Star Engineering Works. Wolvethampton, were destroyed by fire. Forty motor cars were ruined and 200 employees thrown idle…

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Stock on the Railways. Fire Taxation. Farm Areas and Municipalities

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 July 1913 · page 2

The conference rejected a motion to enter an emphatic protest against cattle being taken to and from the city in pick-up trains…

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Fire Engine Tested

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 2

Mr. J. Graham. divisional inspector of the Fire Board Commissioners, yesterday, at the fire-station, put Wagga's new engine through an…

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Huge Forest Fire. OTTAWA

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 July 1913 · page 2

The Porcupine mining camp is threatened with extinction by forest fires. The whole of the neighboring country is a mass of flames and many…

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Canadian Bush fires. Women and Children's Ordeal Ottawa

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 4

Refugees arriving at North Bay, tell of terrific bush-fires. Many lives have been lost in the Porcupine River districts. Women and babies were taken…

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Serious Colliery Fire. BRISBANE

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 4

A [?] fire broke out at the Fairback Colliery in the lpswich district the flames belching 20 feet into the air from the funnel mouth. Dense…

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Fairbank Colliery on Fire Mine Been Idle for a Fortnight. Brisbane, Friday Evening

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 July 1913 · page 2

A fire has broken out at the Fairbank colliery near Blackstone, in the ipswich district The flames to-day were belching forth 20ft. from the…

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Disastrous Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 July 1913 · page 2

A fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in a building occupied by the T.T. Electric Co. and other firms in Clarence-street. The whole place…

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Troops Fire with Fatal Results. Johannesburg

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 July 1913 · page 2

Three the Dragoons charged the mob surrounding the Rand Club. They were reformed each time. maintaining a fusilade. Missiles were thrown at…

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Desperate Fighting. Many Lives Lost. Martial Law Proclaimed. Streets Raked with Rifle Fire Dead Litter the Thoroughfares. Johannesburg

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1913 · page 2

The Dragoons charged three times at a mob surrounding the Rand Club and it reformed each time, maintaining a [?]illade of missiles. The officer…

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Fire in Sydney. Warehouse Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 July 1913 · page 2

A four-storied warehouse in Clarence-street occupied by the T.T. Electric Fitting Company, and various other firms, was totally gutted by fire…

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Fire at the Australian Club Sleepers Narrow Escape Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 July 1913 · page 2

At Melbourne early this morning a fire broke out on the fourth [?] of the Australian Club in William street. Boarders and others sleeping in upper…

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No More Cinematograph Fires

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 4

A process has just been invented which, it is claimed, will revolutionise the moving picture business, and, what is more to the point, make…

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