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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
414 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 21
Cesare Re, an Italian fruiterer, was committed for trial at the Ballarat Police Court yesterday on a charge of having wilfully set fire to the shop of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire broke out fast night at the Flores Theatre, Acapulco, Mexico, 300 people being burnt to death. The telegraph office was also burnt, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last night a 10-roomed boardinghouse at North Prentice, near Rutherglen, was destroyed by fire. At the time of the oubreak a social gathering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the East Perth Hotel. Much damage was done, and the inmates to the number of 14…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later information shows that at the time the fire broken out in the Flores Theatre, Acapulco (Mexico) a gala performance was being given in honor of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few minutes before 4 o'clock this afternoon a fire broke out in a fourroomed building of wood, iron, and stone, in Nickel-street. The Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The President Roka, a steamer running to Southern Argentina from Buenos Ayres, caught fire yesterday, and sank. Twenty persons were drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →About 8.40 last night the Fire Brigade was called out to a fire that had broken out in a three-roomed woodand-iron house at the corner of South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire in the Pinnaroo district covered thousands of acres of bush country. There were, however, no heavy losses to settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further particulars relative to the President Roka, a steamer running to Southern Argentina ports from Buenos Aires, which caught fire on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Alexander Hay's handsome residence. "Mount Breekaw,' at Victor Harbor, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. A man was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible, disaster (according to the Chicago correspondent of the "Daily Chroniclo" of January 21) occurred this afternoon at the new "crib" which is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Word has been received at westport (N.Z.) that the Westport Coal Company's mine at Millerton is on fire. The company refuses to give…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirteen business places have been destroyed by fire at Taihape (N.Z.). The insurance amounted to £4000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 5 o'clock on Saturday morning the premises of Murray and Magee, of South Brisbane, with a stock valued at £6[?]0, destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Bathurst Sessions to-day Hugh Sinclair pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, at Napoleon Reefs, near Bathurst maliciously wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A big fire occurred in Main-street Waratah (Tasmania) on Sunday. The total loss is estimated at £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All efforts to subdue the fire at the Millerton mine, New Zealand, have been directed to blocking up the outlet preparatory to flooding the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire which occurred at Medindie this morning destroyed a large shed on the premises of Schramm and Co., cordial manufacturers. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A high [?]nement building in New York was burnt yesterday, 10 people perishing…
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