Great Fire in Bradford. Damage Estimated at £300,000. [By Cable.] London
A terribly destructive fire has raged at Bradford. Forty business houses have been destroyed, and damage to the extent of £300,000 done…
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Fires & bushfires, 1896
266 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 14
Fires
ABOUT 9 o'clock last night an alarm was given for a fire at Moxon's Newmarket Hotel. The brigade turned out, but found that the flames had been extinguished by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Fire at Bradford. Forty Business Premises Destroyed. London, Dec. 2
A largo fire has occurred at Bradford, destroying 40 business premises. The damage is estimated at £300,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Fire in Kalgoorlie. Several Premises Destroyed. [By Telegraph.] Kal[?], Friday Afternoon
A large fire broke out in the London Restaurant, Hanuan-street, Kalgoorlie, at 3.50 p.m. this afternoon. The adjoining premises, belonging to Harding and Fuller…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at a Hospital. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A fire has occurred in the Cottage Hospital at Berry. The scene of the fire was a detached cottage cantaining a special isolation war[?] and the nurses'…
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AN extensive fire was prevented by the promptitude of the brigade last night. About 7.30 a telephone alarm was given for a blaze in a brick store in…
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A FIRE broke out on Saturday night about 10.45 o'clock in the kitchen attached to the Gladstone Boardinghouse, Argent-street, caused by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Hay. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Saturday Evening
A telegram from Hay reports that the New Caledonia Hotel there has been partially destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Hobart. Heavy Damage. [By Telegraph] Hobart
The Tasmanian soap and candle works have been totally destroyed by fire. The canse of the fire is unknown. No particulars of the damage (which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fire in Tasmania. The Town of Gormanston Swept. £15,000 Damage Done. A Man Burned to Death. Numbers Homeless and Destitute. A Relief Fund Started. [By Telegraph.] Hobart, Sunday Evening
News comes from Gormanston, a new mining town, in the Mount Lyell district, on the West Coast, of a terrible fire which devastated a great part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire in Tasmania. 160 Houses, Tents, and Huts Destroyed. 250 Persons Homeless. The Relief Fund. [By Telegraph.] Hobart, Tuesday
At the best of times the life of the working population on the wild West coast of the island is extremely rongh, and privations are endured which in…
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A disastrous fire occurred at Mount Lyell on Saturday morning, one side of the main street being destroyed, including about 60 buildings. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fire in Kalgoorlie. KALGOORLIE
A [?] occurred in Hannan-street, Kalgoorlie early to-day, in a small hessian structure occupied by Joseph Tighe, who was asleep inside at the time. A number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Setting a Man on Fire. Twelve Months' Imprisonment " Good-bye, You Old Rascal."
IN the Second Griminal Court yesterday (says Saturday's Melbourne Age) an elderly woman named Elizabeth Bell was tried before the Chief Justice on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire at Narandera. Sydney
A whole block of buildings in the main street of Narandera was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, and the strenuous efforts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Heat Wave. [By Telegraph.] Terrible Bush Fire in the Grampians. Two Women Overtaken and Burned to Death. A Man Badly Burned. MELBOURNE
A terrible fatality accompanied a bush fire in the Grampians, near Stawell, yesterday. An elderly woman named O'Rourke and her daughter, aged 20, were washing at a creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at the South. House and Contents Destroyed
JUST before 3 o'clock this afternoon the mine whistles gave the alarm for the usual Christmas Eve fire. About the same time the fire brigade received a telephone message…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FIRES. An Argent-street Block in Danger
AT about 3 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in Argent-street, between Bromide and Kaolin streets, in a small building at the rear of J. F. Walker's general store…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the South. House and Contents Destroyed
JUST before 3 o'clock this afternoon the mine whistles gave the alarm for the usual Christmas Eve fire. About the same time the fire brigade received a telephone message…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire at Wagga. SYDNEY
A bush fire in the Wagga district has destroyed 5000 acres of grass, three miles of fencing, and a quantity of wheat and hay…
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