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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
526 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 27
Sir Derrick Watson, Bart, who was a passenger on the steamer Frangestan when the cargo of cotton it was carrying caught alight, on being interviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reuter's Port Sudan correspondent reports:— "The captain and crew of the Frangestan behaved with characteristic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire at Hughenden on Saturday destroved 12 buildings. The damage is estimated at £30.000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While travelling to a fire on Saturday night a motor fire engine skidded on a wet road and struck a telegraph pole. The deputy superintendent, Mr. Jules…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out at midnight on Saturday on the steamer Kansas, which recently arrived from America with a million pounds' worth of motor cars…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Fire Brigade received a call to-day through the fire a firm situated at the corner of Williams and Chloride streets. On arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fireman V. Dolman, of the headquarters staff, will be transferred to No.2 station at South Broken Hill on Friday to fill the vacancy created by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire last night destroyed two [?] ot a foor-storied building in E[?]street occupied by Sargents Ltd. The fire brigades saved the rest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred early yesterday morning at Deniliquin, completely destroying the railway station, also an adjoining hotel. Railway instruments were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage amounting to £7000 was done at a furniture factory in M'Avoystreet, Alexandria, late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There were most exciting scenes at a fire at the Royal Alfred Home for Sailors at Belvedere, where there are 88 inmates mostly aged men. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 1.20 a.m. yesterday the fire brigade was called out by a stranger, who came to the station, to a fire at a fourroomed wood and iron dwelling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alice Ponnycuick (39), a nurse residing at Hobart, was burnt to death while lighting a fire with the aid of petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Bellingen yesterday a serious fire started in the principal business st[?] at 3.30 o'clock in the morning. It was supposed to have criginated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage estimated at nearly £15,000 was caused by a fire at South Brisbane yesterday when a two-storied building occupied by F. Holzbcrger, grocery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tait and FraddyVfanutare faetaty at Coilingwood, will its eontaats, wu comoleteir deattoyed by fire ia ball. aa boar lan najht…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the past few weeks the fumes coming over the town from the Central mine fire have been stronger than they were in the earlier stages of the fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The most serious shipping fire in the history of South Australia, and one of the worst in the Commonwealth, occurred at Port Adelaide on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Jack Key, engineer, who was badly injured by the explosion, which followed a fire on the City of Singapore at Port Adelaide on Sunday, spent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One of the most disastrous fires in the history of the central west of Queensland broke out shortly after 10 o'clock last night in the premises of…
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