Great Fire at Smyrna. LONDON, Monday Afternoon
A great fire has occurred at Smyrna, a port on the Smyrna Gulf, in Asiatic Turkey. Among the buildings destroyed was the Customs…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
323 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 12 of 17
Great Fire at Smyrna. LONDON, Monday Afternoon
A great fire has occurred at Smyrna, a port on the Smyrna Gulf, in Asiatic Turkey. Among the buildings destroyed was the Customs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Bristol. LONDON, Thursday Afternoon
Colston Hall, Bristol, England, where the Trades Union Congress has been sitting since Monday, was destroyed by fire last night. The great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Bristol. LONDON, Thursday Afternoon
Colston Hall, Bristol, England, where the Trades Union Congress has been sitting since Monday, was destroyed by fire last night. The great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Colston Hall. London, Sept. 1
Colston Hall, Bristol, has been destroyed by fire, and the grand organ ruined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Board. a Threatened Crisis
A MEETING of the Fire Brigade Board was held at the Town Hall yesterday evening, the Mayor (Alderman Strachan) presiding. A letter was read from the Fire Underwriters'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire in Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Soon after 3 o'clock this morning the Skating Rink in Piric-street was found to be afire. The structure was of wood and iron and was soon enveloped in flames. Before the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Block 12 Fire
TWELVE months ago yesterday the outbreak of fire occurred in the underground workings of Black 12; and, although the disaster did not tax the resources of the big mine to such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at the South
ABOUT half-past 12 o'clock yesterday a oneroomed canvas hut situated at the back of the Proprietary Mine, South Broken Hill, owned and occupied by a man named John Shepherd,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Great Fire. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon
The town of New Westminster, formerly the capital of British Columbia, has been partially destroyed by fire. The whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Destructive Fire. London, Sept. 12
New Westminster, formerly the capital of British Columbia, has been partially destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at half a million…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Great Fire. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon
The town of New Westminster, formerly the capital of British Columbia, has been partially destroyed by fire. The whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Australia. State Fire Insurance. Second Reading Speech. ADELAIDE
In the Assembly yesterday evening, Mr. Holder moved the second reading of the State Fire Insurance Bill. It was, it had been said, socialistic. It was so; and so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mail Steamer on Fire. LONDON
The German mail steamer Oldenburg, from Sydney to Antwerp, reports her cargo having been on fire during the voyage, before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrier Miner. Friday, September 16, 1898. State Fire Insurance
OPPOSITION to many socialistic proposals is at the least intelligible. "Competition," according to one of those sayings which so many people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Is Crystal-street. Narrow Escape of a Family
A FEW minutes before 8 o'clock this morning a four-roomed cottage, situated on the Proprietary lease In Crystnl-st-cet South, was, together with its contents, totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miner Office, [?] p.m. Fatal Fire in the States. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon
A disastrous Fire in a grain elevator at Ohio, in the States, caused eight persons to be burned to death, while nine others were fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Fatal Fire in the States. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon
A disastrous fire in a grain elevator at Ohio, in the States, caused eight persons to be burned to death, while nine others were fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Exciting Scene in Pitt-street, Sydney. Mr. Meagher Attacks Mr Norton with a Whip. the Latter Fires a Shop Sydney
John Norton was walking down Pitt-street yesterday when he was suddenly attacked by Mr Mr Meagher, M.P., with a cowhide whip, who died…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Gold Mine. Two Men Hissing. AUCKLAND
A fire has broken out in the Jubilee gold mine, Waitekuri; and it is supposed that two men, named Graham and Wallace, have been suffocated. The fire is believed now to…
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