Big City Blaze. Stedman's Factory Destroyed Sydney
Stedmaa's con[?]ectionery factory, situated in Clarence street city, was destroyed by fire this morning. The damage is estimated at £150,000. The…
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Fires & bushfires, 1916
422 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 14 of 22
Coach on Fire Mail Bags Destroyed. Glen Innes
The mail couch from Inverell last evening caught fire near Brody Plain, and six gangs of mails were partialy damaged. The cause of the outbreak is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Destructive Fire Stedman's, Ltd., Gutted. £150,000 Damage. Grand Central Suffers. Sydney
A biff fire broke out in the factory of Jas. Stedman and Co., Ltd., manufacturing confectioners, 123 to 129 Clarence-street, at 2 o'clock this…
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On Wednesday night there was a great commotion. The school bell was violently rung about 8 o'clock as a fire alarm. It appears that, while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fire Ball. To the Editor
Sir,--On Monday afternoon last, while driving along the Bowenfels-road, near Dunn's Corner, I witnessed the fall of a very fine derolite or fire ball, in an easterly direction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Mesopotamia. Gunboats Under Fire. London
General Sir Percy Lake reports that the situation in Mesopotamia is unchanged, except that two gunboa[?]s on the Euphrates, near Khidr, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire in Canada Two Towns Demolished Vancouver
Cochrane and Matheson, two small towns in Northern Ontario, were , burned on Sunday morning. One hundred lives were lost, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fires in Ontario Province. Communities Wiped Out, a Big Death Roll. Toronto (Can.)
Forest fires in the neighborhood of Cochrane and Matheson wiped out entire communities in north Ontario. The death roll is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canadian Bush Fires Six Towns Obliterated Many Deaths and Much Damage. Ottawa
Six towns, Cochrane, Ma[?]heson, Kelso, Monteith, Mushka and Irquois, in Northern Ontario, were wiped off the map by Sunday's bush fire. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canadian Forest Fires. Over 200 Lives Lost. London
An Ottawa correspondent on Monday cabled that it is estimated that 200 lives were lost in the forest fires. Whole families were incinerated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain Prevents Serious Fire. Sydney
But for the rain a fire at Hardy and Sons, wheelwrights, and timber merchants, Pyrmont, early this morning, might have been Serious. As it was…
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A fire occurred in the wooden' office at the Mudgee Freezing works to-day shortly after 1 p.m. It appears the office staff had left the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Scene in Hell Effect of Liquid Fire. Germans Roasted in Own Flambes.an Awful Spectacle. (A.c.a. Special.) London
An awful picture of the effect of liquid fire is given by Mr. George Lohir, who interviewed a French officer on the Somme who was directing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glimpse of Hell. Awful Effect of Liquid Fire. Huns Caught by Their Own Deviltries. New York, Tuesday Night
An awful picture of the effect of liquid fire is given by Georges Lohir, the Paris correspondent of the "New York Times." He interviewed a French officer on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pozieres Germans Countering Liquid Fire Used in Attack All British Losses Regained More Ground Taken to the East Australians and Englishmen in Form the Broken Morale of Enemy Prisoners London
A British official message says: Two enemy attacks northward of Pozieres, one with liquid fire, temporarily forced us back form the captured trench. We regained practically all, and progressed eastward of Pozieres, towards Martin Pu[?]ch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Queensland Fire
A fire which broke out at midnight in the main portion of Kingaroy, Queensland, destroyed a big block of buildings. The flames spread to the Queensland National Bank,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire. Block of Buildings Destroyed Brisbane
A fire occurred at midnight in the main portion of Kingaros, in the southern Burnett district, destroyed a whole block of buildings. The fire spread to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Eveleigh Railway Sheds. Lamps Destroyed. Sydney
Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke our in the main loco shed at Everleigh, and as the flames were fed by kerosene it appeared as if the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italians Big Attack Gigantic Success Gained Tens of Thousands of Prisoners. Corizia Under Fire. Austrians Overwhelmed. Home
The Italians have opened a great offensive on the Isonz[?] and Carso on a sixty miles front, for which they had prepared for several months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Billiard Room Fire. Goulburn
As the result of a fire in the billiard room of the Goulburn Club last night damage estimated at £100 was done before the brigade succeeded in…
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