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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1914

2,696 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 135

Big Fire. Timber Yard Ablaze State Works Destroyed. a Brilliant Spectacle. Three Acres of Flame. Damage Exceeds £50,000

The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 1

The State joinery works at the corner of Abattoir road and Gordon-street, Rozelle, with a vast stock of timber, were almost wholly destroyed by fire this morning. As far…

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Timber Yard Blaze. State Works Burnt Out. £60,000 Damage

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1914 · page 10

The epidemic of fires in Sydney extended to State property yesterday morning, when the big Government joinery works at the corner of Abattoir-road and Gordon-street…

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Blaze in Oxford Street Reuben Brasch's Premises Alight

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 February 1914 · page 9

Traffic-constable Cullen and Constable Clark, of the Clarence-street Police Station, were coming in to the city to go on duty yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock when they noticed…

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Boiler Explosions on Ships Is Drawing the Fires Necessary? Experts' Divergent Opinions

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1914 · page 12

A Sydney engineer has written the "Sun" desiring to explode what he characterises as a popular nautical myth, by relegating to the limbo in which common mistakes are buried,…

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Fire at Null Jetty in Danger. Colliery Props Ablaze. WOLLONGONG

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1914 · page 10

A disastrous fire broke out this afternoon near the South Bull jetty. Bellambl. Thousands of props that are used inside the colliery were stacked near the jetty, and…

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Fire Fiend. £400,000 Claimed Since November. Total Losses Probably More. a Serious Position

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 February 1914 · page 9

It has been reported to us, on very reliable authority, that the Fire Insurance companies in this State have received claims for no less a sum than £400,000 since November last…

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Burnt Out. State Timber Works £53,000 Damage. Great Blaze at Rozelle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 13

On Friday the Rozelle sawmill, timber yard, and joinery works of the State Government was a [?]ve of industry, with 240 men employed. On Saturday it was a charred…

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State Fire Insurance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 8

The fire at the State timber and joinery yards at Balmain raises an interesting question as to the attitude of the State towards fire risks. In this case we awake one…

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Board of Fire Commissioners

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 10

BERRY, Saturday.--Mr. R. Shepherd, Mayor of Berry, announces that he is a candidate for the vacancy on the Board of Fire Commissioners…

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City Fire. Draper's Shop Damaged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 9

At 1.37 on Saturday afternoon the fire brigade received a call from a motor garage in Oxford-street. A fire had started in the basement of Reuben Brasch's three-storied…

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Huge Blaze. Joinery Works Destroyed State Enterprise Gutted. About £50,000 Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 8

The State-owned joinery works and timber-yard at the earner of Abattoir-road and Gorden-street, Rozelle, were almost completely destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning…

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A Queensland Fire. Charleville (Q.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 11

Early this morning a fire broke out in Toub's tailoring and drapery establishment, and as a result Toub's premises, Armstrong's butchering establishment, Graham's bootshop,…

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Fire in Oxford-street. Drapery Emporium Alight

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 10

The timely arrival of the brigades prevented what might have been a destructive fire in Reuben Brasch's drapery establishment, Oxford-street, on Saturday afternoon…

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Diabolical Bandit. Fires Railway Tunnel. Over Forty Lives Lost. Juarez (Mexico), Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 9

It is reported that a Mexico and Northwestern train, with 41 passengers, ran into a burning tunnel, and the lives of all on board were lost…

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Fire in Bombay. People Leap for Life. Bombay, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 10

The great fire which occurred in the bazaar originated in a sweetmeat shop, where the escape of 100 people in the upper stories was cut off…

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Fatal Fire. Hotel and Building Destroyed. Rabbiter Burned to Death. Albury

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 7

A [?] are occurred early yesterday morning at Bulgandrs a small town on the western side of the Albury district. About 2 o'clock an alarm of fire was raised,…

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Chinese Burnt Out

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 8

SINGLETON, Monday.--A four-roomed weatherboard structure, occupied by Chinese, was destroyed by fire. Ah Lun, owner of the garden, lost £40 'n money and clothes, and other…

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Store Burnt Out

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 8

WAUCHOPE, Monday.--J. C. Lindsay's general store at Rollands Plains was totally destroyed by fire last night. The stock was insured by the Queensland Insurance Company,…

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Newtown Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 6

The fire that broke out in the draper's shop of John Southern, yum, at 433 King-street, Newtown, last night, practically burned out both the stock and building. The stock was…

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Rush Fires in Taralga District

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 8

GOULBURN, Monday.--Further bush fires have occurred in the Taralga district. On Saturday Cullen Bros, lost 100 tons of hay and 100 bags of oats, as well as a quantity of grass…

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