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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1915

2,381 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 120

Big Bush Fire. Homestead Threatened. Damage to Fencing. Bathurst

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 3

The bush fire which broke out on Saturday at North Jack, on the eastern side of the Orange Rocks Hill, was one of the most serious outbreaks experienced in that locality…

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Big Bush Fire. Damage in the West. Ten Miles of Country Country Devastated. Bathurst

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 5

Bush fires that broke out on North Jack, on the castern side of Orange Rocks, on Monday, developed into the Createst conflagration ever experienced in the locality. Over ten miles…

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Farm Fires

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 4

Mr. Geo. Blackburn of A[?]hurville (N.S.W.), lost two stack's of hay, owing to a fire, which was started by a spark from a chaff cutter. Eighty bags of…

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An Oil Store Blaze

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 4

Last Wednesday evening, as reported in last issue, a galvanised iron structure and its contents, comprising' a self-rais-ing Hour factory and a petrol store, in…

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New Zealand Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 8

WELLINGTON, Monday.--The Hawkes Bay Soapworks have been totally destroyed by fire, the loss Including a large quantity of hides, soap, and materials…

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Fires. Drapery Shop Destroyed. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 10

The drapery shop of Mr. Peter Holey, in Rankin-street, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. Good work on the part of the brigade prevented the…

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Fear Under Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 3

The sensations, of men under fire for the first time must be as the temperatures of the individuals themselves, and, in the mass, will run the…

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The G.p.o. Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 10

The postal authorities intimate that the total number of telephone lines, including subscribers and junction lines, rendered faulty by the recent fire in the basement of the General…

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Gympie Cottage Fire. Caused by a Lamp Explosion

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 4

On Thursday morning a seven-roomed house on the Brisbane Road, about four and a half miles from Gymple, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire. The…

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Aunt Merrythought's Mail. Caloric Cooker. Chaste this week without fire

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 8

Dungog (N.S.W.)—I received your letter referring to the [?] stove and went along to the establishment of David Jones, Ltd., who stock these articles. They have a stove in the two…

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Fire at Sydney G.P.O. Outbreak in the Telephone, Tunnel

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 4

There was great excitement in the General Post Office, Sydney on Thursday night, when a fire was located in the telephone cable tunnel, in the basement…

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CONFLAGRATIONS Melbourne Fire Sensation Two Brothers Compelled to Leap for Life

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 4

Two brothers had remarkable c[?]capers at a fire in Stanley-street, West Melbourne, early on SUnday morning. Shortly after 3 o'clock the premises of the…

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Destructive Bush Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 14

PERTH, Tuesday.--Extensive bush fires have done groat damage in the best grassed and most fertile parts of the State--Bunbury and Dusselton districts. At Upper Capel and Kirrup,…

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Deadly British Fire

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 14

"Eye-witness" with the British forces in Egypt states that the British fire was deadly and accurate. Turkish dead are lying everywhere, and…

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The Post Office Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 12

The postal authorities Intimate that the total number of telephone lines, both subscribers und Junction lines, rendered faulty by the recent fire. in the basement of the General Post Office,…

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Telephone Service Disorganised by Fire

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 18

Thousands of persons having occasion to use telephones on February 12 were provoked into using had language—some because of the failure of the switch attendants to answer their…

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Wheat at Home. a Fire Market. London, Tuesday Night

Evening News · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 1

The wheat market is farmar to-day…

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Fatal Bush Fires in Tasmania

Evening News · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 1

For the past three days extensive bush [?] have been raging throughout Tasmania, particularly on the east and north-west coasts, AT Trosutta, near Stanley, Mrs. Tom Ryan, a…

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Serious Bush Fires. Destruction in Tasmania

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 8

LAUNCESTON, TAS., Wednesday.--For the past three days extensive bush fires have been raging throughout Tasmania, particularly on the east and north-west coasts. Serious damage…

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Bush Fires on the Mountains. Katoomba

Evening News · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 5

An extensive bush fire was raging in the recinity of the waterworks last sight. Over 100 acres of bush was burning firesly, and at times dense volumes of smoke enveloped the…

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