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Fires & bushfires, 1905

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 113

Provisions Destroyed. Disastrous Fire at Moscow LONDON, Sunday 2 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 1

A disastrous fire has occurred at Moscow. Four depots containing provisions for the Far East have been destroyed…

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The Suburbs. Fire Brigades

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 8

Alderman William Taylor (suburban representative on the Fire Brigades Board) has written to the councils asking it they are in favour of the motion passed at the recent conference disapproving of the advice of…

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Fire in Moscow. Campaign Provisions Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 7

A great fire has occurred at Moscow. Four depots containing provisions for the Far East have been destroyed. [The above appeared in a portion of yesterday's…

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Cavalry Charges. Japanese Successes. the Russians Again Routed. a Fierce Shell Fire. Losses Believed to Be Great. Russian Reserves Called Upon

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--The Japanese claim several cavalry successes against Major- General Mistchenko's cavalry in Manchuria. The sharpest lighting took place in the…

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Fire at Lismore. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 8

A dwelling at Cluncs, owned by Mr. Issac Stewart, and occupied by Mr. R. Tindall, was destroyed last night by fire. Most of the furniture was destroyed. The building was…

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Fire at Koorawatha. Koorawatha

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1905 · page 13

A very destructive fire occurred here on Sunday night, when the stable, storeroom, and machinery building bolonging to Mr. David Anderson was completely destroyed, together…

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Fires. Sutherland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 June 1905 · page 3

A four-roomed cottage, owned by Mr. Kitt (who resides at Manly Beach) was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The building was unoccupied…

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An Altar Takes Fire

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 June 1905 · page 33

While Archbishop Bourne, Bishop Casserelll of Salford and a number of Catholic dignitaries and priests were conducting a service of Triduum in St. Mary's Catholic…

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Round the Camp Fire

Evening News · Thursday 22 June 1905 · page 5

Last evening Thomas Brownlee, 17, and several companions were seated round a fire in a paddock off John-street, Leichhardt, and, according to a witness were indulging in a game…

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Fire at Beechworth

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A big fire occurred at Beechworth early this morning, when three shops were destroyed. One was vacant, and the other two were occupied by Mr. Vanderberg, a…

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Fire at North Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Early this morning a fire occurred in a grocer's shop in West-street, North Sydney, occupied by A. Clemesha. Although the brigades ware quickly on the score, the premises were…

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Our Fire and Life Offices

The Australian Star · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 1

Mr. ROBERT. KERR, J.P., of the City Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of which he has been manager for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. Kerr represents also the London and Lancashire office…

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Disastrous Fire. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 6

A disastrous fire broke out at Beechworth. Vandeberg's dental surgery, Ryan's fancy goods store, and a vacant shop were destroyed. Wooding's jewellery shop and Phillips'…

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Russia's Troubles. Demonstration at Lodz. Cossacks and Dragoons Fire

Evening News · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday, 2.40 p.m.—There was a great anti-Government demonstration at Lodz, Poland, yesterday. Fifty thousand persons were marching in…

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Agin the Government. Another Outbreak in Poland Troops Fire on a Crowd. London, Thursday, 2.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 1

An anti-Government demonstration at Lodz, in Russian Poland, was attended with considerable bloodshed. Fifty thousand people, with red flags,…

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Fires. Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 14

On Monday last a disastrous fire occurred on the farm of Mr. Anderson, Koorawatha, by which all the outbuildings, containing machinery, buggy, harness, plant, etc., to the…

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Fire at Newtown

Evening News · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 5

A fire broke out. this morning in the shop of R. Wall and Sons, builders tractors, Sloane-street, Newtown, and for a time threatened danger to the coachbuliding as…

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Fire at Newtown. Builder's Shop Alight. Good Save by the M.F.B.

The Australian Star · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 6

The vicinity of Sloane-slreet, Newtown, was the scene of much commotion before daybreak this morning, when an alarm of fire was received through an alarm-box sent by…

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Appalling Railway Disaster. American Express and Dynamite Trains Collide Terrific Explosions and Big Fire

The World's News · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 5

Of all the horrible railway accidents that have happened in America none have been more horrible than that which took place at South Harrisburg, Pa., in the early morning of May 11…

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