Fire on the Express. Truck Alight. Destruction of Property
The sudden stopping of the express train to Broken Hill during the small hours of this morning caused anxiety and some little excitement amongst the…
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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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The sudden stopping of the express train to Broken Hill during the small hours of this morning caused anxiety and some little excitement amongst the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out at the Thornsby timber works, Peel-street, Tamworth, on Thursday night, the damage being estimated at £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A weatherboard cottage at Epping, occupied by Mrs. Beveridge, caught fire early yesterday motning, and the inmates had barely time to escape with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further fires broke out to-day at the Brussels International Exhibition, but were extinguished. The fires give evidence of incendiarism…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The discharge of natural gas near Bergedorf, Germany, started a fire to-day, which is burning like an enormous torch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out at the Thornsby timber works, Peel-street, Tamworth, on Thursday night, the damage being estimated at £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Manitoba Lunatic Asylum was destroyed by fire to-day, 600 patients being released in a snowstorm. Several are believed to be dead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A new combination railway employees' car has been completely destroyed by fire 53 miles north or Hergott Springs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Town Fire Brigade received a call about 4 o'clock to-day to a fire in a two-roomed weatherboard house situated in Beryl-street, Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The miners on strike at the Clyda[?] Vale colliery (Wales) prevented the enginemen and stokers working to-day and stoned the police. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A wireless message was received to-day at San Diego (California) from the steamer Falcon, bound from San Francisco to Seattle, stating that it was on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The residence of Danied Gilkes was completely gutted by fire this afternoon. The place, which was insured, contained some valuable furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Tuesday the Hobart Fire Brigade was called to attend a fire on the Glebe. On arrival the outbreak was found to have already been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A four-roomed dwelling at White Cliffs, owned and occupied by Mr. Daniel Gilks, was destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday an alarm of fire was given by the automatic sprinkler at Parsons Brothers, Kent-street, Sydney. The brigade turned out and found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A shocking burning accident occurred at Gordon, a suburb of Sydney, yesterday to an elderly man named James Pritchard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This morning the contsable on duty in Grenfell-street, Adelaide, noticed[?] flames issuing from the cast side of the block known as Gender's Buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →B[?] walls and a heap of smouldering debris in the basement are all that is left of the front portion of Genders buildings in G[?]street, A[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A bush fire near Deniliquin raged for six hours yesterday. Before it was checked it burnt an area of country four miles long by four to six miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The No. 2 (South) Fire Brigade was called at 8.30 last night to a fire which had broken out in a four-roomed woodand-iron cottage, situated at the corner…
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