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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1917

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Damage by Fire. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 2

The damage by the fire in Kent-street last night is estimated at about £3000…

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Riverina Fire. Several Buildings Destroyed. Temora

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1917 · page 3

A destructive fire broke out at Beckom, on the Temora-Barellan line, at 3 a.m. yesterday, when half of one side of a street was totally destroyed. The…

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Shocking Burning Fatality. Two Navvies Charred. Tent Caught Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 2

At midnight last night, at the navvies' camp between the cemetery and Sharpe's railway gates, a tent caught fire, and two of the occupants were…

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Epidemic of Fires

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

Quite and epidemic of fires has occurred at Narandera and district Last week we reported the loss of "Lake Midgeon" homestead. The…

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Fire at Coolamon

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

A fire broke [?] at 1.30 yesterday morning in a cottage occupied by Mr. [?], and owned by Mr. F.A. Seckld, Coolamon, The fire starred…

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Military Fire on Crowd

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 2

The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Athens states that enormous crowds paraded the streets of Sofia and Burgas, carrying a real skull and…

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Navvies Burnt to Death. Fire Near Cootamundra

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 2

Our Sydney telegrams last night report that two men, Frank McDonald and Dennis Murphy, (Victorians), navvies engaged on the railway…

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Riots in Germany Munition Workers Rise Town Hall Set on Fire. Many Casualties Reported London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 2

There were serious riots on Easter Sunday at Dusseldorf a leading manufacturing town of Rhenish Prussia. Women munition workers marched in…

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Fire at Coolamon. Six Buildings Destroyed

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 2

A disastrous fire occurred in Coolaman in me early hours of yesterday morning. At 4.30 a.m. the fire was discovered in GUEST'S bootshop a wooden…

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Destructive Fires Beckom Wiped Out. Whole Block of Business Places Destroyed

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 2

Early on Tuesday morning a great conflagration occurred at Beckom, whereby the whole business portion of the village was reduced to a mass…

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Big Fire at Goolamon. Business Premises Destroyed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 2

A destructive fire occurred at [?]mon yesterday resulting in the total destruction of several business premises in Cowafobie-street…

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Building on Fire. Narrow Escape Ok Occupants. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 1

When a weatherboard shop and five rooms, occupied by Miss Moffatt, confectioner, caught alight early this morning, Mr. Moffatt and a lady…

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Destructive French Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 8

The French continued their destructive fire between St. Quentin and the Oise, and also occupied a fresh enemy point of advantage…

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Big Fire at Coolamon

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 4

A destructive fire [?] at colamon on sunday resulting in the total destruction of several business properties in [?]…

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Fire at Coolamon. Business Premises Destroyed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 2

On Monday at 4.30 a.m. the nightwatchman at Coolamon discovered a fire in the back room of a bootmaker's shop, owned by L. Guest. From there…

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Disastrous Fire. Six Buildings Demolished. Damages Estimated at £4,500

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 2

Another disastrous fire occurred in Coolamon on Monday morning of this week, and in regard to destructiveness [?] second only to that which occurred nearly…

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Fire at Tootool. Homestead Totally Destroyed. Tootool

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 April 1917 · page 3

"Boralma" homestead, on Whitcombe Estate, Tootool, owned by Mr. Tutty, junr., was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night, together…

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Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 2

At 1.30 a.m. yesterday the residents of Junee were awakened by the whistling of railway engines and the ringing of the firebell. It was found that a…

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Loss Through Fire

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 2

During last week Mr David M Donald, Galore had a storage shed destroyed by fire. The shed contained a quantity of harness and…

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Big 'Fire in France. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 4

A fire of enormous proportions broke out at Valence, one whole district being burned. Firemen were summoned from Lyons, [?] miles away…

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