Fire at North Broken Hill. Four-roomed House Destroyed
The Central Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in Murton-street. North Broken Hill, at 7.30 o'clock last night. The outbreak was in a four-roomed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1914
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Fire in Lodging House. Three Inmates Burned To. Death. (Reuter's Message.) Bridgeport (Conn.)
When a fire broke out in an Italian boarding-house in which fifty boarders had rooms a terrible panic followed. The police used their clubs to drive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosion and Fire. Picture Palace Catches Alight
An explosion occured in a secondstorey room at Young's Buildings, Pitt and Park streets, on saturday afternoon (says the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cathedral on Fire. the Tower Collapses. (Reuter's Message.) Berlin
The cathedral of St. Quirinas, at Neuss, a town of Rhenish Russian, one of the finest specimens of medieval architecture in Germany, and founded in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woolshed Destroyed by Fire. Machinery and Seed Wheat Burnt. Perth
A fire at Katanning yesterday gutted a woolshed owned by Mr. H. W. Piesse, and destroyed all the shearing machinery, farm implements, 180 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raid by Dervishes. Five Friendlies Shot. Villages Set on Fire. (Reuter's Message.) Aden
Fifty dervish horsemen fired a volicy at a native bazaur at Berberah, a seaport of British Somaliland, wounding several of the natives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Balmain Fire. Shop and Dwelling Ablaze. Son's Bravery to Save His Mother. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
A fire occurred in a grocer's shop, owned and occupied by Mrs. Margaret Olson, in Wortely-street, Balmain, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suffragettes. a Doctor Horse-chipped. Railway Carriages Set on Fire. (Reuter's Message.) London, Monday Evening
A suffragette horse-whipped Dr. James Devon, Scottish Prison Commissioner as he was entering Glasgow Prison. The suffragette was knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Courageous Girls. Peril From a Fire. (Reuter's Message.) New York
Last night a fire broke out in the hall of the College for Girls at Wellessley, Massachusetts, and 250 of the students had to flee for their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on a Steamer. at Port Pirie. Burning for Many Hours. Brave Firemen. Port Pirie
A fire in the bunker of the steamer Polamhall, which broke out early on Tuesday morning, continues strongly. Dense clouds of smoke are issuing from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Vancouver. Entire Block Swept by Flames. (Reuter's Messago.) Vancouver
A fire which broke out yesterday evening in the Wisconsin buildings swept along the entire block. At first it was believed that 20 persons had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Steamer. Burns Two Days and Two Nights. Extinguished This Morning. Adelaide
The fire in the reserve bunker of the steamer Polam Hall was extinguished this morning after burning two days and two nights. Firemen continued to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires'in Victoria. at Geelong. Brave Rescue by Firemen. Melbourne
Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso Townhill and their infant child were rescued from death by the promptitude of the fire brigade at Geelong yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Reid-street. Two Shops and Boarding House Destroyed. Other Buildings Damaged
After an immunity of many years from fire, the residents of Wilcannia were awakened from their peaceful slumbers about 4 o'clock Saturday…
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The Central Fire Brigade was again called at 1.35 o'clock yesterday afternoon to a rubbish fire at the rear of Mr. A. J. Pascoe's boot store, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires in the City. a Mine Engine-house Burned
An alarm of fire was sounded at 9.42 o'clock on Saturday night by, the British mine whistle, which, however, whistled for North Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire in Wilcannia. Two Shops and Boarding House Destroyed. Other Buildings Damaged
After an immunity of many years from fire the residents of Wilcannin were awakened from their peaceful slumbers ahout 4 o'clock on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Northam. Perth
Damage to the extent of £2000 was occasioned by fire in Fitzgerald-street, Northam, the shops of Mr, Dawson, confectioner, and Mr. Foreman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in an Asylum. a New Zealand Sensation. Five Hundred Women Saved. Wellington
A fire broke out yesterday morning in the women's ward at the Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch. The first sign of the outbreak was a wisp of smoke,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fire. Four-room Cottage Destroyed
The quiet of last Sunday evening, just after church time, was rudely disturbed by an alarm of fire Doing raised, and it was soon apparent that…
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