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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1889

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Fire at the Adelaide Coffee Palace. a Minister Roasted to Death

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 March 1889 · page 4

AT ten minutes past 3 last Friday morning the occupants of tho Coffee Palace in Hindley-street were alarmed by the cry of fire. It proved to be such a sudden outbreak that the inmates had hardly time to seek…

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Fire at a Skating Rink

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 August 1889 · page 2

THE Lycenm Skating Rink at Petersham was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The loss is estimated at £5000…

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Awful Catastrophe. a Town Destroyed by Fire

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 October 1889 · page 4

PARTICULARS of the extensively destructive fire which devastated the city of Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, early in August last, are to hand by the last American mail…

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