These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
240 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 12
At the Inquest to-day on the fatal fire at the Grand Hotel on May 31. a witness Jessie Minn, employed at the hotel, said that at the night of the fire the saw a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fire Brigade Board held its monthly meeting this afternoon in the Mayor's Parlor, Town Hall. Mr. J. Sully was the only absen[?]. The [?] reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] [?] [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Inquest yesterday on the fatal fire at the Grand Hote', Auckland, Jessie. Minns, cross-examined, repeated her former extraordinary statements regarding the setting of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In [?]e House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, i[?] introducing [?] State Fire Insur[?]nce B[?]ll, t[?] Premier s[?]d [?]e would set up a [?]pec[?]l committee of inqu[?]ry, [?] he w[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The pa[?]tial p[?]es of Anthony Hordern [?]nd [?], Hay[?]t, Sydney, were destroyed [?]y fire this mor[?]ing, [?]al lives are [?]d [?] have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fire at Anthony Hordern and [?] Haymarket, this morning, is described as one of the biggest in Australia. A strong and cold westerly wind was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Imperial Manufacturing Company's warehouse, the centre of many others, in Kent-street, broke into fire early this morning. Extensive damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anthony Hordern and Sons, burnt out at the Haymarket yesterday, restart business to-day at the Exhibition Buildings, Pri[?] Alfred Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Samuel Hordern notified the whole of the employees of the firm of Anthony Hordern and Sons to resume work to-day at the Exhibition Building, which they cheerfully…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The inquest on the body of Harry Cless, one of the victims of Anthony Hordarn's [?], was opened yesterday afternoon and adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nothing more [?] [?]t been b[?]rd of the four mi[?]ing men at [?]n fire[?] Thom[?] Firmm[?], an electrician, [?] that Brett and Dashwood were in the [?]room…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A disastrous fire broke out in Anthony Hordorn's establishment in the Haymarket yesterday morning, the whole of the immense block of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The attempts made to demoli[?] the remainlng walls of Hordern's with dynamite were unsuccessful yesterday in consequence of the proxmity of other balldings; sO at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Je[?]e Min[?] the girl who at the Inq[?]est told such a [?]ing story about the Grand Hotel fire and the men who the said [?]ted it, has [?]ow admitted [?]o [?]he police that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The firemen will to-day start to search among the [?]of [?]rdern's fire for the b[?] of the men [?] Wednesday. Mr. Samuel Hordern, seen on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The funeral of H. Clegg, [?] or the victime*[?] of Hordern's fire, was held this afternoon. Fully 100,000 people lined the route to the Waverley Com[?]ery. The order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 4 o'clock yesterday morning another big the broke out in sydney, in Crago's four storted [?] Mila, at Newtown, adjoining the railway. The fire raged for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first at Anthony Hordern's the Imperial Manufacturing Company's and Crago's Flour Mills will exactly wipe out the whole of the gross fire premiums received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two children were locked up yesterday in a home at Daylesford during the absence of their mother. The house caught fire and the children were gallantly rescued by a boy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →