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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
377 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 19
The police received a report this morning From Reynella that the Morphett Vale post office was entered by robbers on Saturday night. The safe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A lawn tennis pavilion at Catford has been destroyed by fire. Suffragettes are suspected. The suffragettes have burned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Halifax, Nova Scotia, states that the steamer Muirfield arrived there afire to-day, having steamed at top speed from mid-ocean,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"The Spanish steamer Balmes on fire and the passengers have been transferred to the steamship Pannonia." This was a wireless message received at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the Austrian steamer Jose[?] Agost Fobergig, from Thieste to Melbourne, was about 150 miles off Cape Otway on Saturday afternoon a fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last night the Central brigade, received a call at 9.15 o'clock from the Government tramways fire alarm while the Railway Town brigade was called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Scotsdyke, loaded with esparto grass, is reported to have caught fire off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight. The conflagration, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While the steamer Scotsdyke, bound from a North African port to Sunderland was on her voyage, a fire broke out on board. Several members of thed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain J. Ruitz, of the steamer Balmes, which recently reached Hamilston, Bermuda, on fire, passed through a terrible experience, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →While M. Verdrine's brother Emile was flying at a height of 1500ft. at Rheims, the motor caught fire. He at once downplaned the machine, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A five-storey warehouse in Clarence-street, oocupied by Stuart, Walker, and Co., salt merchants and suppliers of butchers' requisites, and the Coleman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While M. Verdrine's brother Emile was flying at a height of 1500ft. at Rheims, the motor caught fire. He at once downplaned the machine, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Port Ger[?] Butter Factory (states the Port Pirie "Recorder") was burnt to the ground on Friday morning, and so far as can be ascertained only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Brigade received a call by telephone at two minutes past 4 o'clock this afternoon to a shed, used for unpacking goods, at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The scorching heat yesterday was responsible For several bush fires in the Northam and Newcastle districts, where a quantity of standing crops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accompanied by about half a dozen [?] explosions, caused br drums containing eucalyptus oil bursting, the fire which broke out in Clarence-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seen this morning in respect to the water supply; Divisional-omcer J. M. Lumborne, head of the fire brigade, stated that there was to-day a pressure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine families were rendered homeless aa the result of a fire which started in a timber yard attached to Mr. J. Reid's box factory in George-street North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'A four-roomed wood-and-iron house, Warren-street, North Broken Hill, was destroyed by fire to-day, and the owner and occupier, Mrs. Johanna Sheer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broken Hill has been very free from fires lately, but last night just at the time when the water service was disorganised, there was an outbreak in…
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