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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1851

59 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Fire-side Yarns. No. 3. the Disappointed Man

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 23 August 1851 · page 6

HIS appearance was venerable in the extrems; the few hairs which were thinly scattered over his ample and finely formed forehead were white as the driven snow, while a long beard of the same hue descended till it reached his breast. His eye was…

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Destruction by Fire of the Ship Kurramanny

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 August 1851 · page 2

WE have been favoured with a copy of a letter from Captain J. Hogg, (formerly of the Australian, whaler,) detailing the particulars of the destruction of the ship Kurramanny…

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Destruction by Fire of the Ship Kurramanny

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 252

We have been favoured with a copy of a letter from Captain J. Hogg, (formerly of the Australian, whaler,) detailing the particulars of the destruction of the ship Kurramanny…

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Fire-side Yarns No. 3. the Disappointed Man

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 6

To say that I felt any violent grief on the occasion would be anything but the truth, and the first impression on my mind was that I would doubtless succeed to the savings of many years of lucrative employment. I was doomed to be disappointed. The grand gala…

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Origin of the Fire. (From the Mining Post, June 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 3

THE facts so far as they are known and we could gather them are substantially these: The fire originated in a two-story frame house, near the corner of Powell and Pacific streets,…

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Further Incidents of the Fire.— Additional Losses. (From the Alta California, June 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 3

THE sun broke clear and beautiful yesterday morning upon the space covered with the smoking ruins left from the fire of Sunday. Over the ten full squares that were burned,…

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Terrible Conflagration. (From the Mining Post, June 23.) Sixth Great Fire of San Francisco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 3

ANOTHER great conflagration has laid in ruins a large proportion of our city. At about the hour of eleven o'clock on yesterday morning, just as the church bells were…

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Destruction of an Indiaman by Fire

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 September 1851 · page 6

A frightful catastropae was made known on Wednesdy at Lloyds'—the destruction of one of the largest Indiamen, by fire, called the Buckinghanshire, while on her…

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Terrible Conflagration. Sixth Great Fire of San Francisco

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 September 1851 · page 10

Another great conflagration has laid in ruins a large proportion of our city. At about the hour of eleven o'clock on yesterday morning, just as the church bells were announcing…

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Fire-side Yarns No. 4

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 6

WHEN I am safely lodged in my room, and as the cold wind blows without, I close the door, exploding the sound of the rheumatic old clock, which stands right in the draught on the staircase-- and, also, that mournful wail which so often attends the coming of the…

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Further Incidents of the Fire.--additional Losses

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 7

The sun broke clear and beautiful yesterday morning upon the space covered with the smoking ruins left from the fire of Sunday. Over the ten full squares that were burned, within the actual limits of the burned district, the only buildings left standing were…

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California. Terrible Conflagration. Sixth Great Fire of San Francisco

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 September 1851 · page 7

ANOTHER great conflagration has laid in ruins a large portion of our city. At about the hour of eleven o'clock, on yesterday morning, just as the church bells were announcing the hour for the assemblage of…

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Original Correspondence. the Late Fire. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 11 September 1851 · page 3

SIR—In your publication of yesterday appeared a peragraph headed "Fire," relating to an accidont which took place on my premises on the night previous. It is therein stated, "that the…

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Original Correspondence. the Late Fire. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 September 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In your publication of yesterday appeared a paragraph headed "Fire," relating to an accident which took place on my premises on the night previous. It is…

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Fire-side Yarns No. 4. the Fortunes of a Baby-hawker

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 6

In the suburbs of a most secluded village in the middle of one of the most strictly agricultural counties of England, resided a laborer who inherited not only the labor and toil which had descended to him from his fathers, as his only inheritance, but also was…

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English Extracts. Great Fire Near London-bridge. Destruction of Alderman Humphrey's Warehouses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 October 1851 · page 3

THE scene of the conflagration on Monday was on the north side of Montague-close, the thoroughfare running in a line with Tooleystreet, and passing under London-bridge. The…

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English Extracts. Destructive Fire in Southwark. (From the Illustrated London News, June 28.)

Empire · Saturday 25 October 1851 · page 4

The metropolis, winch has within the last fow months witnessed so many disastrous conflagrations, has been this week again visited by a devastating fire, the…

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California. Another Destructive Fire!! Probable Incendiarism!!!

Empire · Wednesday 29 October 1851 · page 4

This morning about 1 o'clock, our city was visited by anothor destructive fire. After a lapse of only nine days since the last fire, we were again roused by that…

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Alarming and Destructive Fires at Hobart Town

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 1

Yesterday morning, Friday, about half-past one o'clock, the inhabitants of Murray-street, residing near Messrs Kissocks, were alarmed by cries of "Fire," which broke out in the rear of…

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