By Flood and Fire
The devastating results of unchecked flood and unconquerable fire have been frightfully illustrated in Arkansas, America, and Cashmere India…
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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
209 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 11
The devastating results of unchecked flood and unconquerable fire have been frightfully illustrated in Arkansas, America, and Cashmere India…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two thousand house have been burned at Sinager, the capital of Cashmere, in India. 80,000 people are homeless, and 2,500 have died of cholera…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the burning silver mine in Austria, but 350 miners are missing. It is believed the fire was the work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There has been a great fire at Vorno, in Poland. Three hundred houses were destroyed and two thousand people were left homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In connection with the fire which broke out in the Berkenberg silver mine at Prague in Bohemia, it is stated that 70 bodies have been recovered, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Markroin has been burned on the Muschet River, Russia, and 60 people drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the Evening News) a fire was discovered on board the three-masted steamer Wavertree, berthe[?] Hoffnung's wharf. Miller's Point. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TRULLY for great catastrophies America takes the palm against the whole world. When any other country has its worst railway accident, it usually ends in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire which, but for the presence of mind and activity displayed by a few of the resident professors, might have proved very serious, broke out in St…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man fired a corn shed at Barraba, Tamworth, to-day. On efforts for his arrest being resisted the police had to five and wound him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great tiro has occurred at Chicora, Pennsylvania. Hundreds of houses were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Petroleum steamer which took fire lying in the harbor at Blaye, France was the Petralin. The fire was caused through drunken sailors dropping matches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Theatre Royal was partially destroyed by fire last night. The fire broke out at 430 this morning, and engines quickly arrived. It was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At half-past four this morning sparks were observed rising from the dress-circle of the Theatre Royal in King-street, and the alarm was immediately given to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There family of a fettler named Challenge. at Mount Victoria, were totally burnt out early on Wednesday morning. A fund has been started for their, relief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Rungoon the most interesting event of the Moharram Festival is undonbtedly the fire-walking. On the seventh night of the last festival, says a correspondent. I started out at about a quarter to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Having seen in your issue of today that a motion is going to be brought forward by Alderman Ryan vt the dead lock in the Fire Brigade and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dear Sir,—Having seen in your. issue of Monday that Alderman Ryan is going to bring forward a motion in the Council that Foreman Kell shall take charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further inquiries in regard to tho movements of the supposed Dora Dora blacks show that they have stayed in the vicinity of Tyndale for fully three weeks, shifting their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—As there seems to be an impression that I am trying to supplant Captain Butcher in the Bathurst Fire Brigade, owing, I presume to Alderman Ryan's motion in the…
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