An Unfortunate Fire
SOME rather curious developments are reported to have occurred in connection with a recent fire which destroyed a pawnbroking establishment (the Sunday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
323 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 15 of 17
Fire on a Lighter: Two Women Burnt. MELBOURNE
A terrible affair occurred at Yarraville yesterday afternoon on the lighter Shannon, lying alongside the ropoworks there. Johanna Sutherland, a divorced woman, went aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in the Crystal Hotel. An Early Alarm and a Successful Fight
A FIRE that threatened to cause extensive damage, but which was extinguished before much actual harm was done, broke out shortly after 10 o'clock on Saturday night in…
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IT'S ordinary monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade Board was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, the Mayor (Alderman Stracban) presiding. The report from the…
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THE ordinary monthly meeting at the Fire Brigade Board was held, in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, the Mayor (Alderman Strachan) presbling. The report from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anthony Hordern's on Fire. a Narrow-Escape. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Karly to-day Anthony Hordern's Haymarket Emporium, Sydney, was discovered to be on fire in the seventh storey of the ironmongery department. The lower part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at Hordern's. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon
The fire at Anthony Horden's at the Haymarket this morning caused damage to the extent of several thousand pounds. The seventh storey, where the fire broke out, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at South Broken Hill. a Boarding-house Destroyed. Narrow Escape of Two Young Ladies
THIS morning, shortly after midnight, a fire broke out in a four-roomed iron-and-weatherboard house in Patton-street, South Broken Hill. The building, which was used as a…
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Shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out a Anthony Hordern's immense warehouse in Haymarket. The outbreak occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Dawson City. LONDON
Half of the business portion of Dawson City, in the Klondyke country, has been destroyed by fire…
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PARTICULARS have been received by the London Daily Mail of the burning at sea of the British steamer Mount Tabor, of Glasgow, under sensational circumstances. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at South Broken Hill. Three Shops Destroyed. Neither Buildings nor Stock Insured
A FIRE that broke out in a block of shops at the corner of Comstock and Patton streets. South Broken Hill, a few minutes after 8 o'clock this morning threatened at one time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Silverton. Destruction of Municipal Council Books
ON Thursday afternoon last, at half-past 3 o'clock, a fire was discovered in the office off the bar of the Barrier Ranges Hotel, siberton, of which Mr. A. J. O'Connor is licers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at Silverton. The Destruction of Municipal Books. [By Telegraph.] Silverton
Mr. T. Hall, deputy-coroner, held an inquest at the courthouse at Silverton to-day into a fire which occurred at O'Connor's Barrier Ranges Hotel on Thursday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country Fire Brigades. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Brunker) will shortly introduce a bill to the Assembly to compel all fire insurance companies to contribute towards the maintenance of country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Silverton Fire. The Destruction of Public Documents. A Mysterious Occurrence
MR. HALL, J.P., deputy coroner, yesterday held an inquest into the fire which broke out in the office of the Barrier Ranges Hotel, Silverton, and destroyed books and papers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Theatre. Twenty People Burnt. [Reuter's Message.] London, Thursday Afternoon
Baldwin's' Hotel and Theatre in San Francisco—one of the finest buildings in the city—was burnt to the ground last night. Twenty people perished in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Competency of the South Fire Brigade. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR,—We beg a little splice to refer to an interview your representative had with Mr. Whitehead after the bursting of the water main in Eyre-street last week; and we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mail Train on Fire. SYDNEY
The Western mail train, when 27 miles from Bourke yesterday afternoon, took fire and was delayed for three hours. No serious damage was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by a Fire Cart. MELBOURNE
Samuel Eagar, aged 60 years, a deaf old man, was run over by a fire cart at Carlton last night and killed. He failed to hear the warning shouts of the firemen…
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