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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1889

9 stories in South Coast's papers

Fire at Cau[?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 3

AN inquiry was held at Cand[?] on Monday, [?] sore the coroner Mr. M. J. [?] and a jure consisting of Messrs McGregor. World Goldsmith. Jas Howard A. O…

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Alarming Fire on a French Express Train

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 4

An alarming accident incurred to an express train “Le Rapide,” coming from Nice to Paris. As tho train reached a point about live miles ,South of Dijon…

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Removing Leading from Fire

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 8 May 1889 · page 2

Easy method of cleaning guns when [?] If a muzzle loader, [?] or communication hole with or if a breech loader, insert a…

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Original Poetry. the Fiend of the Forest Fire

Moruya Examiner · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 2

Straight down from the heavens of brass In the glare and the gleam of its ray The sun seemed to scorch up the grass And to wither the water away…

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Fire in Antwerp

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 11 September 1889 · page 2

The great fine in Antwerp is subsiding. 400 bodies hare been recovered. The damage to property in enormous…

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Fire Panic

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 2

During Varley's lecture at the Masonic Hall last night an alarm of fire was raised, causing a great panic. A terrible catastrophe was only averted by the splendid…

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Fire Panic

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 2

During Varley's lecture at the Masonic Hall last night an alarm of fire was raised, causing a great panic. A terrible catastrophe was only averted by the splendid…

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Fire on an Atlantic Steamer

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 4

The White Star Royal Mail Steamship Britannic which sailed from Now York on the 4th of September, with 89 saloon and 169 steerage passengers, arrived off…

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Another Fire in Massachusetts. the Fire Caused by Electricity

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 25 December 1889 · page 4

LONDON, NOVEMBER 29.—A tremendous fire has taken place in Boston, the capital of the State of Massachusetts, by which two acres of buildings in the city were…

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