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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
185 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 10
The steamer Port Augusta, from New York to Fremantle is on fire about 400 miles from Capetown. The fire spread from the bunkers to the second hold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The entire fire brigade in Paris is fighting an appalling fire in the Grandes Magasins du Printemps, Boulevard Haussmann, the origin of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Vickers-Vimy machine crashed while in flames in Kent to-day. Five persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Rockhampton on Wednesday William Patrick Haynes (43) ran amok in a house in Murray-street at about noon (says a report in the "Journal")…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albert Bilbey's tailoring shop in Cathedral-street, Woolloomooloo, was destroyed by fire this morning. The family was rescued with great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early on Saturday night the premises of the Redfern Box Factory, in Phillip-street, Waterloo, were totally destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reuter's Brussels correspondent reports that the Polish Legation states that, according to a telegram from Beuthen, a German self-defence force is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During a fire last night a building, occupied by Althouse and Geizer, in George-street, collapsed, and the Crystal Palace, adjoining was seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The damage caused by thursday night's fire at Stewart Lanroff's, in Bathurst-street, is more extensive than was at first thought. It is now expected…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The damage caused by Thursday night's fire at Stewart Lanroff's, in Bathurst-street, is more extensive than was at first thought. It is now expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 11.35 o'clock to-day the Central Fire Brigade received a call to the house of Mr. J. M'Laren, 174 Chapplestreet, where a detached room,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the month of October the Central Fire Brigade was called out on five occasions, there being two house fires, two false alarms, and one chimney fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The whole of the Western country, with a front, say, from Wilcannia to north of Brewarrina, and extending east for more than 150 miles, is now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Residente of South Broken Hill said Railway Town, whose gardens are being eaten up by grasshoppers, have been trying an experiment in the hope…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For several days bush fires have been raging in the country extending from Wilcannia to north of Brewarrina. Millions of acres of grass have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big bush fires have been raging on Yudnapinna and Mutooroo stations, in the Far North, for some days. The Mutooroo Pastoral Company has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big bush fires have been raging on Yudnapinna and Mutooroo stations, in the Far North, for some days. The Mutooroo Pastoral Company has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a rule the districts in this part of the Far West are comparatively frog frets bush fires of a serious nature, but owing to the great growth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The future bathroom will contain neither soap nor water. Their place, according to Dr. Nikola Tests, the famous scientific, wil…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock, the Central Fire Brigade received a call through the street alarm at the corner of Blende and Silver streets…
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