The Baltimore Fire.—damage Eight Millions
An area a mile long and a quarter-mile broad was burned at Baltimore, including the Customs House, theatres, banks, all the newspaper offices, and many hotels and stores…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
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Cable News. Tremendous Fire in America. Six Hundred Houses Destroyed. London, Feb. 8
A tremendous fire is raging at Baltimore, United States. A large wholesale dry goods establishment and 70 other business houses have been destroyed. Despite the use of dynamite in…
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The Palace of Wonders, Pitt-street, was completely burnt out this morning. The proprietor is a great loser. Overall's drapery establishment in Fortitude…
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The insurance companies estimate the losses by fire at Baltimore to be 125,000,000dol (£25,000,000). Property to the value of 90,000,000dol was covered by insurance. The vaults of the banks and the…
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After raging for 27 hours the fire at Baltimore exhausted itself. One hundred and forty acres were devastated, including the entire business quarter of the city…
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After burning for 27 hours the Baltimore fire exhausted itself. Alto gether 140 acres. were devastated, including the entire business quarter…
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AFTER raging for 27 hours the fire at Baltimore exhausted itself. One hundred and forty acres were devastate[?], including…
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A TREMENDOUS fire is raging at Baltimore United States. A large wholesale dry goods establishment and 70 others…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in the East. Attack on Port Arthur. Russian Ships Disabled and Sunk. Russians Fire First Shot. London, Feb. 10
VICEROY ALEXEIEFF has telegraphed to St. Petersburg that three of the Russian warships at Port Arthur have holes in their hulls as the result of Monday night's encounter…
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Bush firms are reported from Dungog, Gloucester. Inverell, Lismore, and elsewhere. At Dungog a settler was burnt out. At Lismore growing crops of sorghum and planter burned…
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THE insurance companies intimate that the losses by the Baltimore disaster amount to 125 million dollars. Ninety…
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ON Monday bush fires were still raging near Brisbane. It was reported that the powder magazine at Ekibin was threatened. A welcome fall of rain stemmed the progress of the…
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EXTENSIVE bush fires have been raging [?] different parts of the State during the week, at Dungog, miles of fencing and grass were destroyed, a settler…
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Burrowa, Thursday.—Bush fires have been raging in the vicinity of Frogmore, 16 miles from town, for several days, destroying thousands of acres of grass, besides much fencing and a number of wheat…
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The hon. sec. of the Goulburn and District Progress Association has received a letter from Messrs. the Goulburn fire clays. The attention of those interested is called to the matter, and no doubt…
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The serious outbreaks of bush fires anticipated before the and of the year appear to have been deferred till this month. Comparative immunity was…
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To many readers it will doubtless have appeared that the recent fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago was the most fatal on record. Such, however, is not the case…
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AN explosion of gas set fire yesterday to some ceiluloid works on the Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris. A number…
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A coffee shop in Paternoster Row, London, has been burnt. Seven employees perished while trying to escape by means of a skylight. TURKEY PREPARING…
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