A Fatal Fire. MELBOURNE
Yesterday auother fatal fire occurred at Axe Creek, Bendigo, when an infant child named Barber was burnt to death and the house destroyed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1897
332 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 17
Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fire in a Miner's Camp. One Inmate Roasted Alive. KALGOORLIE, Monday Night
A fire occurred in the camp of the miners on the Boulder Perseverance block, and the whole place was burned to the ground; and a man named…
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A DISCUSSION arose at a meeting held at the Town Hall last night as to the possibilities of the Broken Hill Fire Brigade. Times of past "turn outs" here and elsewhere were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Adelaide. a Boy Burned. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Yesterday evening a fire occurred in the shop of J. B. Broderick, Grote-street, City. Within two minutes of the alarm the brigade was on the spot, and in about 20 minutes…
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AT 12 noon to-day, a stable occapied by James Pavy at the Newmarket Hotel caught fire from some unknown cause. A quantity of chaff, bran, andsaddlery was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coals of Fire [ORIGINAL] An Australian Tale of Two Christmas Eves. Christmas Eve, 1870
THE colony of New South Wales in general, and the city of Sydney in particular, had never been favoured with a lovelier day than the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Chicago. The Coliseum Destroyed. Nine Employees Killed. Forty Injured. [Reuter's Message.] London
Another big conflagration has been added to the list of disastrous fires which have devastated Chicago. The immense Coliseum building, in which…
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A fire has greatly damaged the ship Westgate, which was loading in the Weat India Dock for Melbonrne…
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A fire has greatly damaged the ship Westgate, which was loading in the West India Dock for Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in England. £150,000 Damage Done. [Reuter's Message.] London
A destructive fire has devastated the historic town of Lynn Regis, or King's Lynn, in Norfolk. The total damage done is estimated at £150,000…
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A correspondent a[?] Echunga wired yesterday, at noon:—"Another large bush fire has started at Glen Taggart on Mr. M'Taggart's grass paddocks. The grass has…
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THE fire reported in the Second Edition totally destroyed a five-roomed wood end iron house owned by Charles Wehlstedt, valued at £120. With the furniture, the…
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A FIRE broke out this afternoon about 2.30 o'clock in Piper-street, South Broken Hill, near the All Nations Hotel. The alarm was at first given [for along the line of lode, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Great London Fire. LONDON
The inquest on the great fire in the city on November 19 last, which affected 17 streets and destroyed 96 buildings, has been concluded. The fire was thought to have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire in Hayti. Followed by an Earthquake. Eight Hundred Houses Destroyed. [Reuter's Message.] London
A disastrous conflagration has taken place as Port an Prince, the maritime capital of Hayti. The flames were not mastered until 800 houses had been destroyed and 3000…
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