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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
176 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 9
IN connection with the grievous calamity on Sunday night wherein, in the brief space of a few minutes, three little children were burned to death, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE danger from fire is always present with us in Broken Hill; and, like all dangers with which we are familiar, we grow accustomed to it and treat it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN importent improvement has been effected in the locomotive department of the local fire brigade by the purchase of two horses for the more rapid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE "Annual Report of tho Broken Hill Volunteer Fire Brigade for the year ended December 31st, 1889" has reached us rather late, having only come to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another big fire occurred in Swanston-street last night. The well-known and extensive furniture warehouse of S. Nathan, of time-payment fame, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire in the premises of the Emery Cloth Making Co., Pitt-street to-day, did £200 worth of damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Moria Colliery, in Cardiff, Wales, in which two days ago a terrible explosion occurred and hundreds were entombed, is now on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ST. PATRICK'S DAY did not close without the usual alarm of fire. At 9 o'clock last night a report was made at the fire station of a fire buming at the rear of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the various signals given by the mine whistle in cases of fire in or about the town are by no means so well understood as they should be by the residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several boys are to be summoned at Sandhurst for setting fire to the Great Southern shaft some time ago In trying to extinguish the flames, the manager…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire has taken place in Indianopolis, U.S., in which 13 firemen perished and 19 others were more or less injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon, at about 3 o'clock, Sir Henry Parkes was present while the Fire Brigade were exercised in various manoeuvres at the back of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the various signals given by the mine whistle in cases of fire in or about the town are by no means so well understood as they should be by the residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDWARD ROWE, a miner residing in Silverton, was burnt out of house and home the other night, and his wife returned from Adelaide yesterday only to find a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused this morning by a report that a man had attempted to murder his wife, at Mulga Hill, near the Mayflower Hotel, by firing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the various signals given by the mine whistle in cases of fire in or about the town are by no means so well understood as they should be by the residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All work in the South Glanmire and Monkland mines has been suspended, in consequence of a fire which destroyed the winding gear, &c…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A big fire has occurred in a lunatic asylum, near Quebec, Canada. A horrible and heart-rending scene ensued. One hundred and fifty inmates, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred at Leigh, in Laucashire, followed by a fire. Three hundred men working below are being rescued through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable messages received from New York state that a fire has occured in a workhouse at Chenango, in the State of New York. The building, it is cable,…
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