Fire at a Furnitur Factory. Big Damage Done. Melbourne
Yesterday evening a fire occured at the furniture factory of Emerson Bros., Proprietary Ltd., at Montague. In less than half an hour the building,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1913
377 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 19
Fire Service Not Affected
District Officer Lamborne, of the Broken Hill Fire Brigade, stated this morning that he had received a communication from the Water Supply, Limited,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires at Broken Hill. Calls for January and February
For the month of February the Broken Hill fire brigades received eight calls to fires in the city, and two false alarms. For the month of January,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early Morning Fire. Furniture Works Destroyed. Sydney
A fire occurred this morning on the two-storey premises of Peel and Tombs, furniture manufacturers, and C. J. Pittman, motor body works, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire. Madrid
A great fire has occurred at Sans Sebastian. It started in a theatre, which the audience had just left: The Municipal Library, Museum, Academy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Hotel Fire. Omaha (Nebraska)
A hotel was burned last night, ard a score of guests were found dead in the ruins. Two guests became insane with fright. The wooden structure blazed;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Third Edition. Disastrous Fires. [Reuter's Message.] a Town Devastated. Five Millions Damage. Tokio
A fire has destroyed the whole of Numazu. The losses are estimated at £5,000,000 sterling. Numazu is a seaport town in Japan,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship on Fire at Rio. Butter Blazing. [Reuter's Message.] Rio Janeiro
The No. 3 cross bunker in the lower hold on the liner Turakona is afire. The seat of the fire is difficult to reach. Heavy damage to the cargo is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Slag-street
About 1.25 o'clock this morning, the Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in Slag-street north, where a three-roomed wood and iron house was ablaze…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rio Steamer Fire Subdued. Rio Janeiro
The fire on the Turakina has been extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Fighting Appliances. Demonstration at the Central Station. the Simonis Smoke Helmet and Water Nozzle
An interesting demonstration wa[?] given at the Central Fire Station this afternoon by Mr. O. Simonis, representative of the firm of Messrs. Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Yokohama Fire
The Exchange, several silk factories, and 250 buildings in Yokohama have been burnt. The damage is estimated at £150,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Small Fire
An alarm of fire for the South was Siren by the mine whistles on Saturday night, and almost immediately another for North Broken Hill. But…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Rio Steamer Fire. Rio Janeiro
The Turakina has four feet of water in number four hold. The meat in number two is useless, and the cheese in number three hold valueless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Railway Town. Five-roomed House Destroyed
The Railway Town fire brigade received a call to a fire in Ryan-street at five minutes after 8 o'clock Inst night, and in view of the fact that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Chap[?]le-street. Aged Man's Great Danger. [?]Ushes Into a Burning Building
The Ceritral Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in C[?]apple-street, off Sulphide-street, at about [?] minutes to [?] o'clock this afternoon, and the double…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Waikerie Fire. a Destructive Outbreak. Adelaide
The fire at Thompson's general store (reported in yesterday's Third Edition) started in the sweets department and spread to Murdock's saddlery store…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A South Australian Fire. Damage £8000. Adelaide, Thursday Afternoon
Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Adelaide received the following telegram this (Thursday) morning from his son Mr. Wilfred Thompson who has charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Fire Station. Four Additional Men Appointed
As was recently stated in "The Miner," the New South Walesh Fire Commissioners have approved of the appointment of additional permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at South Broken Hill. Four-roomed Shop and Dwelling Destroyed
The South Broken Hill Fire Brigade was called to a fire at 8.15 o'clock on Sunday morning. The outbreak was in a four-roomed wood and iron dwelling…
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