Destructive Fires in Canada. Five Miles of Buildings Burnt. 15,000 Persons Homeless, London
GREAT fires are raging in Hull and Ottawa, Canada. The damage is estimated at from 10 to 20 millions of dollars…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
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Immense Fire in Canada an Appalling Catastrophe. Enormous Destruction to Property. London
A great fire is raging in Hull and Ottawa, Canada. The damage is estimated at from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 dollars. A large portion of Hull is in ruins. Owing to the…
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WHENEVER a great fire occurs in any part of the world the thoughts of British people quickly fly to the story of the great fire of London, which occurred in 1666 and swept the city from tho Tower…
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Two Grafton residents, Messrs. A. Reynolds and J. wilshire, had on Saturday week a sharp experience of being under fire without going to South Africa. They were on a visit to Sydney…
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THE disastrous fire which has occurred in the Canadian cities of Hull and Ottawa, on opposite banks of tho Ottawa River, was not, as at first thought, a Funian…
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LATER reports show that the conflagration at Hull and Ottawa, in Canada, had an accidental origin and was not caused by Fenians as at first stated. The fire broke out at 11 o'clock in the morning in…
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A row of buildings in the main street of Ballina was burnt to the ground on Saturday. The fire was discovered about 2,30 a.m., and is supposed to have originated…
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AT about 3 o'clock on Saturday morning last a most destructive fire occurred in the main street of Ballina, when in the course of about an hour, some seven shops, to which were attached five…
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A big £re occurred in Brisbane early this morning, the whole of the City Council's wharf, leased to the A.U.S.N. Co., being destroyed. The premi[?]s had only been quarantined on…
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A BIG fire occurred at Brisbane early this morning, by which the whole of the City Council's wharf was destroyed. The destroyed premises, which were…
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Though most things failed on Thursday night in the way of decoration and illumination, the Royal Arthur was not included in the unfortunate category. Being Queen's Birthday night, the…
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THE Lismore Fire Brigade has acquired a reputation for zeal, and it must live up to it. Dr. Eagleden of that city determined to have a bonfire on his own account on Mafeking Night, and…
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The Russian ship Earl of Zetland reported on her arrival at Melbourne yesterday having been on fire at sen. The flames were extinguished by water shipped…
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Forty-four summonses were yesterday served on the Victorian Railway Department for damages by bush fires which, it is alleged, hod been started by railway…
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A GREAT fire occurred in the Hoberkin Docks, New York. Several vessels were partly destroyed. The damage is estimated at £400,000. 80 lives were…
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Further particulars of the great fire in Hoboken Docks, New York, state that 500 lives were lost. The damage is estimated at £2,000,000…
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Further accounts of the great fire, at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated. The explosion of a carboy of acid…
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FURTHER accounts of the great fire at the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more [?] than first reports indicated. The explosion of a carboy of acid fire some cotton bales when…
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THE steamer Saale, which was damaged by the fire at the Hoboken Docks (New York), has been re-floated, and 24 charred bodies recovered, making a…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY NIGHT. — Advices received by telegram at police head quarters in Sydney this morning state that a small party of civilians came up with the…
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