Fires in America. MICHIGAN
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 1288
TREMENDOUS FIRES IN MICHIGAN. — The Saginaw, Michigan, papers are full of accounts of fires in that double city, and in its vicinity, and special meetings of the council were held to devise means for meeting an emergency which…
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The Irish Citizen · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 11
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 5
On Tuesday we received, by the ship St. John, California papers to the 18th October. The Milwaukie Sentinel, October 10th, gives the following account of the Wisconsin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America. Numerous and Extensive Forest and Marsh Fires in the State of New York
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 7
Troy, October 23.—The woods near the Shaker settlement, about six miles from here, are on fire, and it is feared considerable damage will be done. Auburn, October 23.—About three acres of forest,known…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late American News. Great Holocaust of Fire in Wisconsin
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 23
By the ship St. John, from San Francisco, we have California papers to the 18th October. They contain most distressing accounts of the continue progress of the great fires in several of the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Fire Raging in Darmstadt, Germany
Empire · Monday 11 December 1871 · page 3
Darmstadt, October 21.—The Court Theatre in this city took fire this aftornoon, and is now wrapped in flames. A heavy easterly wind is blowing, and it is feared the flames will spread to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Incident of the Chicago Fire
Evening News · Monday 11 December 1871 · page 3
WHILE Madison-street west of Dearborn, and the west side of Dearborn were all ablaze, the spectators saw the lurid light appear in the rear windows of Speed's block. Presently a man, who apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Fran the Alta California.) the Western Fires. Harrowing Details of the Great Conflagration — Whole Regions Devastated, Towns Destroyed, and Many Lives Lost
Empire · Monday 11 December 1871 · page 3
The extraordinary pressure upon our columns since the dreadful calamity at Chicago, the accounts of which have overshadowed all other news of whatsoever kind, has delayed the publication of the full…
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Empire · Tuesday 12 December 1871 · page 3
WHILE Madison-street west of Dearborn, and the west side of Dearborn were all ablaze, the apectators saw the lurid light appear in the rear windows of Speed's block. Presently a man, who apparently…
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Evening News · Friday 15 December 1871 · page 2
Paris, October 21.-It is said that the Bonapartists intend to agitate the impeachment of the Government of the 4th of September, the dissolution of the National Assembly, and advocate the plebiscitu[?] to…
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The Irish Citizen · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 11
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 22
WHILE Madison-street weat of Dearborn, and the weat side of Dearborn were all ablaze, the spectators saw the lurid light appear in the rear windows of Speed's block. Presently a man, who apparently…
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Empire · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 3
Paris, October 24.—It is said that the Bonapartists intend to agitate the impeachment of the Government of the 4th of September the dissolution of the National Assembly, and advocate the pl[?]bisci to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Later News From New Zealand. Large and Destructive-fire. Incendiarism. Trial of Keropa the Murderer of the Rev. Mr. Volkner
Empire · Wednesday 20 December 1871 · page 3
BY the Hero (a) we are in possession of New Zealand files to the 14th instant. INCENDIARISM.—At the official inquiry as to the burning of Choral Hall, the jury returned the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXTRAORDINARY Escape from a Bush Fire Inspector Harrion's Statement
Evening News · Friday 22 December 1871 · page 3
A NIGHT IN THE BUBNINC RANGES ON THE WILLIAMS.—We are informed that Mr. sub inspector Harrison was, on Saturday night last, returning from Stroud to Dungog in company with the A. A. Company's…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 17
THE early part of the week ending December 9th, was remarkably hot, the thermometer standing in the shade, in some situations in the pastoral districts, as high as 106 degrees In the Lachlan country on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Bush Fires on the Hastings River. December 10
Empire · Monday 25 December 1871 · page 3
For some years past floods have been so prevalent that poople were becoming inured to them, and the poor farmer, when ploughing and planting, had to leave a large margin in his debtor and creditor account for the almost inevitable…
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Empire · Tuesday 26 December 1871 · page 2
Also in Evening News
THE early part of the week ending December 9th, was remarkably hot, the thermometer standing in the shade, in some situations in the pastoral districts, as high as 106 degrees. In the L[?]hian country on…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 December 1871 · page 3
A few evenings since a fire, attended with great destruction of property, broke out in the extensive timber yard of Mr. Lindsey, East-lane, Lock's-fields, Walworth. After haif-an-hour's hard work the flames…
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