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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1915

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Fire at Junee. Business Block Destroyed. Damage Over £7000

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 March 1915 · page 2

A disastrous fire, resulting in an entire business block being gutted, occurred at Junee on Saturday evening. At about 9 o'clock the fire originated…

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Bush Fires

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 2

Bush fires near Bankstown did considerable damage, several homes being completely destroyed. The fires are still raging, but are under control…

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Bush Fires. Widespreap Losses. Shops and Dwellings Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 3

The terrific heat of the past two days with hot north west winds, caused [?] bush fires to spring up in the suburbs. The brigades had a very busy…

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Effect of Big Gun Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 5

In the year 1900 I was serving in one of H.M. ships attached to the Mediterranean Fleet, says a correspondent, when I met with the…

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Fires. Grass Burnt at Lake Illawarra. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1915 · page 3

Grass Eves have been responsible for of lot of damage in the vi[?] of Lake Illawarra…

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Fire at Ariah Park. Ex-coolamon Resident Burnt Out

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 2

At about 3 o’clock on [?] a fire occurred at a [?] fruit shop occupied [?] Delaney, who, with his wife was sleeping…

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Fire Alarm

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 2

The ringing of the fire-bell, at forenoon on Wednesday, was the signal for a crowd of people to run from all directions to the scene of…

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Alarm of Fire

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 2

A commotion was occasioned in Tumut on Wednesday, about 11 45 a.m, when the fire bell was rung vigorously and people rushed out of…

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Disastrous Fire at Junee

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 3

A disastrous fire occurred in Junee on Saturday night, and he block of buildings from the Commercial Hotel to the Bank of N.S.W. was in flames. The following…

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Motor Car Destroyed by Fire

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 3

On Wednesday night, about 8 p.m , another fire occurred, resulting in the destruction of Mr. T. Macfarlane's valuable motor-car…

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Disastrous Fires at Hillston Hotel and Produce Store Burnt

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1915 · page 3

A disastrous fire, resulting in the entire destruction of Tattersall's Hotel and Messrs. F. Johns and Sons' produce store, occurred on…

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Big Fire at Parkes. Twelve Shops Destroyed. Parkes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

A fire at Parkes destroyed 12 shops in the central portion of the town. A SHOCKING accident occurred in the Junee railway yards on…

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Big Fire at Parkes. Eleven Business Places Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 3

A fire was discovered in Mr. Howell's fruit shop in tile most central position in Parkes early on Saturday morning. Despite the efforts of the…

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Disastrous Fire. Prescott's Ltd.'s Premises Gutteo. Huge Stock of Chaff Destroyed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

The most disastrous fire that has occurred in Wagga for many months past took place last night, when the large building occupied by Messrs. Prescutt's,…

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Fire at Prescott's

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1915 · page 2

A constant watch had to be maintained throughout yesterday on the rains of the fire at Messrs. Precott, Ltd.'s, precuises in Baylia-street, for…

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The Fire at Prescotts

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 2

A steady fire continued all day yesterday amongst the chaff and debris left from the outbreak at Prescott, Ltd.'s, on Monday night,…

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Wagga Fire Brigade Staff

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

Mr. H. Shepherd, municipal representative on the Board of Fire Commissioners, wrote that the Wagga estimates for 1915 provided for the…

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The Dresden. Wiped out in Fire Minutes. Crew Saved

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 1

The Admiralty officially announces that the cruisers Glascow and Kent and the auxiliary cruiser Orama, caught the Dresden at 9…

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Fire Fiends

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 6

The finding of the coroner at the inquiry into the cause of the tires at Johns' produce store and Tattersall's Hotel indicates that a most serious and…

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Further Destructive Fires. Cottage and Contents Burned

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 4

Another destructive fire, making the fifth in two weeks, occurred at Hillston on Monday night about 10 p.m., when a four-roomed…

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