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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
194 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 10
The fire in the Gunnedah coal mine is still burning fiercely. Chief Inspector of Collieries Atkinson and Inspector Dix[?]m arrived on the scene yesterday. The injured men are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Norman's wba[?]f, Brisbane, the property of the City Council, was destroyed by fire to day, with a large quantity of merchandise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A big fire has occurred at Messrs. Lloyd's Daily Chronicle paper mills in London, by which the building sud six new printing machines'' were seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No official confirmation of the reported relief of Mafeking bas yet bee[?] received by the War Office. An official statement has, however, been issued by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night two houses in Wallerstreet were burned down. One was unoccupied; in the other dwelt a family named Lee. Lee's wife first heard a crackling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fise Brigade was called by telephone at at ll o'clock this morning to a fire in Garnetstreet, Thistlemont Hil. The outbreak occurred in a four-roomed wood-and-iron…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A WENTWORTH correspondent writes:—An investigation into the cause of the fire in Mr. W. Merrion's premises brought to light the fact that the fi[?]e was caused by a pet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unparalleled forest fires have occurred in Northern Ontario, resulting in the destruction of an immense quantity of timber…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF our eyes were not so rivetted on South Africa we should have been trembling during the fortnight past for the peace of the East. The position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Eussian ship hari of Zetland arrived in the Bay last night." The captain reports that on May 9, in 40 degrees south and 58'8 degrees east, off the coast of Africa, daring a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SENSATIONAL story (as briefly cabled to the MINER) of fire on shipboard was told by the master of the Rssian ship Earl of Zetland apon her arrival at Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hostilities have commenced in China The Taku forts opened fire an the foreign squadron, and the gunbeats responded vigorously. After six hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred yesterday morning on No. 1 plant of the Mount Lyell smelters. The blaze is supposed to have sinned in the old blowroom at the south end of the plant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the bombardment at Tients[?]n, the Chinese artillery was so well worked that the Russian and American guns were unable to silence the batteries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great fire has [?] at the Hoboken Dock, New York City, U.S.A. Several of the Nordeuts ber-Lloyd mail steamers were partially burned. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A great fire broke out at the Hoberkin Dock, New York, and several vessels were partly, destroyed, the damage being estimated at £400,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fire that broke out in the Hoboken Docks, New York City, was one of the most frightful affairs of the kind ever chronicled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With reference to the fire at Hoboken, New York, it is now asserted that many of the tugboats, instead of rescuing the people who threw themselves into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further particulars of the New York fire state that 500 lives were lost, and the damage done is estimated at £3,000,000 sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire occurred on Saturday night at Harvey, Shaw, and Co.'s hardware store in Little Collins-street. The damage is estimated at £20,000. The…
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