American Forest Fires. London
Two hundred women fought the flames for 24 hours, and succeeded in saving their homes at Elk city…
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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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Two hundred women fought the flames for 24 hours, and succeeded in saving their homes at Elk city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy snow has fallen in [?]o, and has materially assisted in [?]enching the forest fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Newcastle yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the bunkers of the steamer Indrani, which had just completed loading coal and cargo, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At vespers last night a pani[?] was caused at the Basilica Vatican. An ex-Franciscan friar, one Beltramini, fired three shots in the air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rain is quenching the Idaho forest fires. Seventy-three forestry employees are reported dead or missing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gas explosion yesterday caused a fire in a hospital at Henares (Portugal). The firemen rescued 90 panicstricken women and girls through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out about 1.30 yesterday morning in premises occupied by Mrs. L. Hawkes, at Beryl-street North. The Fire Brigade, under District Officer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gibbs and Co's, fellmongery, which was destroyed by fire at Footscray last night, was insured for £11,770…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A big fire occurred at Temora on Friday at midnight, eight shops being destroyed. The insurance amounts to over £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out last night in a small six-roomed wood-and-iron house owned and occupied by Mrs. Catherine James, Beryl-street, Railway Town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hospital at Rock Bay (British Columbia) was burned to-day. The nurses carried out all the patients safely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire yesterday occurred in the Brussels International Exhibition, but it was quickly extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bunkers of the American battleship Dakota caught fire to-day, whilst the vessel lay at anchor in Lower Chesapeake Bay (Virginia), and 75…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire yesterday occurred at Wallace and Hughes's drapery establishment, Brixton-rond, London. Some of the girls jumped from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three hundred house in Kavkas, a suburb of Zarizyn, Russia, were burnt yesterday. Four thousand people are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The members of the Fire Brigade were entertained at a surprise social at the Fire Station last night, engineered by Miss Madge Pollock. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Alaskan cannery town named Kassan was destroyed by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire Brigade received a call by telephone at 9.47 this morning, and turned out promptly. The scene of the fire was a five-roomed unoccupied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The promises of the Union Bank of Australia, Palmerston North (New Zealand), were destroyed by fire last night. The manager and his family had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The area, swept by forest, fires in the States of Montana and Idaho (U.S.A.) totals 15,000 acres…
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