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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
305 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 16
Messages from Narbonne, the principal town in the southern department of the Vaude, dispatched on June 19, but delayed in transmission, are to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out on Saturday night in Russoll-lane in the Stanley Cycle Works, near the Bijoit Theatre. Much damage was done to the works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out at a number of wooden hotels in Jamestown, U.S.A., which were crowded with visitors to an ex[?] at the time. Several hotels…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire occurred at about 12.30 last night in a four-roomed wood-and-iron house in Piper-street, South Broken Hill, occupied by Mr. Daken and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It transpires that the fire which occurred in Piper-street. South Broken Hill, last night was caused by a candle which had been left burning, setting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two shops, occupied by Mr. Walker (draper) and Mr. Clarke (baker), at Jamestown were totally destroyed by fire yesterday. The adjoining shop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out at the Plymouth Workhouse and gutted th[?]mnin block. The inmates wre rescued, many of them being old and feeble…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A big fire has occurred at Eltham,[?] thriving township in the Taranaki dis-, tri[?]t. The buildings destroyed are insured for £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire occurred at Port Chalmers in a two-storey wooden building occupied by William Haberfield, with his wife and child and Haberfield's sister-in-law. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire occurred at the Lobothal woollen mills early this morning. The engine-house was destroyed. The damage is estimated at £100…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to the destruction of the engine-house at the Lobethal Woollen Mills early yesterday morning, work is not to be resumed for at least a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bourke-Wilcannia coach, which left Bourke on Tuesday night, was destroyed by fire, together with the mails and whole contents, at Yanda station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about half-past 5 o'olock this morning the Fire Brigade was called out to the promises, of Dinhock, a Chinaman in Argent-street. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire which broke out last night at Victoria, British Columbia, destroyed 150 buildings, li[?] two churobes. Victoria, is the capital of British…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The [?]our-storey [?] of Woods, op[?], George-street, were to-day completely g[?]tted [?]y [?], An elderly m[?] had a narrow escape [?]rom being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out on board the French mail steamer Ville de [?]a Ciotat yesterday at Circular Quay. The seat of the fire was not located, but it is supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A destructive fire, which gutted three floors of a building in George-street and damaged the contents of the fourth floor, occurred (as already…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coney Island, the popular New York pleasure resort, has been devastated by fire. Altogether £250,000worth of damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Matters of serious difference have arison between members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board and Superintendent Booker, who returned last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the fire which broke out on Monday on the French steamer Ville do in Crotat it is believed that the vessel escaped any structural damage. A final…
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