Late Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] The Fire at Dawson City. LONDON, Monday Afternoon
The fire at Dawson City, on the Klondyke, it is reported, was caused by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
192 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 10
Another City Destroyed by Fire. LONDON
A large portion of the city of St John, the principal seaport of New Brunswick, in the Dominion of Canada, has been again destroyed by fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at Bourke. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A serious fire occurred at Bourke yesterday afternoon. Several shops were destroyed, the damage to the stock being estimated at £2000. A fireman named Norris fell off a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strikers in Russia. Fire and Death. [Reuter's Message.] London
A crowd of drunken strikers at Riga, the second important trade town of Russia, on an inlet of the Baltic Sea, attacked the police guarding the town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Fire. LONDON
A disastrous conflagration has occurred at Coney Island, one of New York's most famous and fashionable watering-places. Two hundred buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at St. John. LONDON, Sunday Afternoon
The fire at St. John, New Brunswiek, Canada, has left 600 families homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire at St. John. LONDON, Sunday Afternoon
The fire at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, has left 600 families homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire at Coney Island. Two Hundred Buildings Destroyed. London, May 28
A fire at Coney Island, opposite New York, America, resulted in the destruction of two hundred buildings. The damage is estimated at £120,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Search of a Water Site. The Municipal Expedition. Fan Round the Camp Fire
As already chronicled in the MINER, a municipal expedition left the Town Hall on Friday evening to look for a water site. Much was expected of it, and great care was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Cable News. British and Foreign. a Town Destroyed by Fire. London, May 28
The town of St. John, in New Brunswick, America, has been destroyed by fire. MAY 29…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires at Port Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Saturday Afternoon
Last night the fire brigade at Port Adelnide Tecclved two calls for fires, one for a shopand the other for a private house, but the total damage caused was small, as the Hames were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire Brigades Board. Present Financial Position, The Superintendent's Suspension
THE monthly meeting of the Broken Hill Fire Brigade Board was held yesterday aftersnoon at the Town Hall. There were present: Alderman Dunstan (in the chair), Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:— General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Big Fire in London. LONDON
A fire broke out last night in the large shed of the Victoria Docks, in which the cargo of the steamer Banffshire, from Australia, was stored…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Fire. SYDNEY
A three-roomed weatherboard cottage on the Maitland-road, Waratah, occupied by a widow named Mrs. Grant and her nephew, Taylor, bugle-major of the 4th Regiment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR,—"Oh man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority," &c., &c., &c. All wellwishers of the local Fire Brigade must devoutly hope that the prophesy of the Mayor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Waratah Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The body found in the fire at Waratah was that of Mrs. Grant, and not that of Taylor, her nephew. The origin of the fire is a mystery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the South. a Three-roomed House Burned
SHORTLY before 5 o'clock this evening the whistles blew an alarm of fire at South Broken Hill. The South brigade was quickly on the spot, followed by the Central curricle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Ship on Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Saturday Afternoon
The Italian ship Stefano Razetto, lying at the Grafton Wharf, Darling Harbor, caught fire this afternoon. The brigades were a couple of hours subduing the flames. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Steamer on Fire. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A wire from Thursday island roports that a tender has arrived there from Go[?] Island with the news that the steamer Duke ot Buckingham, bound for London,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] a Big Fire. LONDON
A disastrous fire has occurred at the ship-building works of Armstrong and Whitworth, Limited, at Newcastlc-onTyne. Three immense workshops were…
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