Terrible Fire. London, Feb. 10
A disastrous fire occurred last night in a bonded warehouse in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Two thousand barrels of whisky, which were stored in a warehouse, exploded…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
151 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 8
In Case of Fire
YOUR house takes fire. What barns first? The hightest and most inflammable stuff, of course-- furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and ether woodwork. If it is a stone or brick house…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The return of the heat wave has been attended with a fresh outbreak of bush fires. A telegram was received to-day from Warrnambool reporting extensive fires raging in the…
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YOUR house takes fire. What learns first" The lightest and latest [?] of course-- furniture doors [?] floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If it is a stone or brick house…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The weather to-day was again very hot, the highest reading at the Observatory being 98-2 in the shade and 151 in the sun. Telegrams from the…
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A LARGE fire broke out in Auckland about one o'clock this morning. The flames had the upper hand for the space of nearly two hours, notwithstanding the efforts of the…
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A fire broke out here this morning resulting in the total destruction of a four-roomed untenanted cottage, the property of Mrs. Robertson, of this town. Indications point…
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YOUR house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course-- furniture, doors, shelves. floors, panelling, and other woodwork, if it is a stone or brick house…
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ON Wednesday night. the residents of the town were startled by the cry of “Fire” and the ringing of the Fire Bell. At the time a concert was being given by the Lyndon Company but at the…
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EARLY last Saturday morning the residents of Murrumburrah and Harden were awakened by the shouts of some person or persons calling…
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THE building used as a printing office by the proprietors of the Mining Record newspaper was burned down this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock. Mr. H. Hicks, the…
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On Saturday afternoon a large volume of black smoke arising from the direction of the rear of the hospital announced than another conflagration had broken out. It was soon discovered that the…
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We would call the attention of our readers to the United Insurance Co's advertisement, the must deservedly popular Company doing business in the…
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SHORMY after nine o'clock last evening a fire concurred at the residence of Mr. R. S. Craig, undertaker, Sloane-street, but was fortunately confined to the room in which it originated. Mr. Craig's…
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ON Wednesday evening the curtains of a bed in the house of Mr. R. S. Craig of Sloane-street caught fire from a candle left burning in the room. The flames were extinguished…
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Melbourne, Wednesday.--At 5 o'clock this morning Chas. Donnison, residing at Hoddle-street, Collingwood, was awakened by a loud sound of crackling and a smell of burning…
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AT 2 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was given at the central station, and the fire was found to be in an out-house at the rear of Mr. S. P. Jessop's residence, Kinghorne street, formerly…
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ON Monday morning last, Mr T. A. Barnes, J. P. Coroner, for the district of Murrumburrah, held an inquest on the fire which occured at Mr C…
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ABOUT 2 a.m on Saturday Mrs. S. P. Jessop of bellevne, kinghorne-street, was awakened by cracking noise, and on rising found that an outhouse attached to the main building…
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A large fire has occurred at Fiume, the seaport in Hungary, on the shores of the Adriatic. Several warehouses were destroyed. The fire was caused by the fall of a meteorite…
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