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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1873

6 stories in South Coast's papers

A Balloon on Fire. Fearful Death at Dekalb. Itt.—a Man Falls 300 Feet From a Burning Balloon!

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1873 · page 1

AN extra of the Dekalb News, issued at six o’clock an Friday evening contains the following account of a disaster which occurred on the same afternoon at the…

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Destructive Fire in Sydney. Ten Shops Destroyed — Damor About £13,000

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 2

It is now several months since we are called upon to chronicle a fire at any moment—but the period of inactivity among firemen, and security to insurance occupancies has been invaded by a…

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Destructive Fire at New York

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 4

The fire in Centre street, New York, also on Christmas Eve, was attended by more disastrous consequences than at first thought. It is definitely ascertained that…

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Alexandra Palace Destroyed by Fire

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1873 · page 3

The magnificent public building, known as the Alexandra Palace, Muswoll Hill, six miles north of London, line been completely destroyed by fire. The vast building was opened only a…

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Select Poetry. the Blaze on the Heart

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Thursday 4 September 1873 · page 4

Then, good-bye Joe you've gone, I'm told, Away to the far-off west; And the old folks say, and the deacon, too, They're sura it's all for the beet,…

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The Fire at Boolong. Coroner’s Inquest

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1873 · page 2

On Thursday morning last, Mr. Thos. Morton Richards, the corner for the district of Shoalhaven, and a jury of seven, held, at the house of Alexander Fraser, jun., Boolong, an inquest…

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