A Fire Call
Shortly before 6 o’clock on Thursday evening the bell at the fire station clanged out sharply ; a little later it was answered by the strident notes of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1905
339 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 14 of 17
An Alarm of Fire
An alarm of fire was raised shortly after six o’clock on Thursday evening. The new fire bell was vigorously rung; the engine turned out smartly, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mikasa Disaster. Heroism at the Fire. London, Sept. 15
It is known that 200 have perished of those who word on the battleship Mikasa (Admiral Togo's flagship), which was burnt and sank off Saseho on Monday morning…
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Murwillumbah, Monday.—Bush fires are raging all around Murwillumbah. During the day the town is obscured by smoke. Much cane has been destroyed, and numbers of farm properties are in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Sea. Heroic Battle with the Flames. Feared Loss of Nineteen Lives
Despatches received at Queenstown on July 15th from San Francisco bring Intelligence of the arrival at that port of the contain and ten men presumed to be the…
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TUMUT, Tuesday.—The house of Mr. William J. Shelley (Coroner) of Tumut Plains, together with its contents, was list night completely destroyed by fire, and his grandchild, Amy…
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The house of Mr. William J. Shelley of Tumut Plains, together with its contents was completely destroyed by fire on Monday night, and his grandchild…
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Four lives were lost in a fire at South Brisbane, when five shops were destroyed. In an upstairs room of one shop the firemen found the body of a woman who had been overtaken by the flames. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Fatal Fire in Brisbane
Late last night a two-store[?]ed wooden building in Melbourne-street, Brisbane, was found to be on fire. As a result several shops were almost totally destroyed. The remains of three…
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Brisbane, Tuesday.—A fire, which at one stage threatened to be a very disastrous one, broke out in a two storied wooden building adjoining Moore’s Palfaco-Hotel…
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ABOUT 7.15 p.m. on Monday a fire occurred in a shed at Mr. A, W. Bullen's residence, resulting in damage to the building and tools and the destruction of a large number of…
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Before the present water supply had been secured for Goulburn, and before a fire brigade to at all equal our existing efficient fire-ughters was established, various…
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Moors fired on a British destroyer voyaging along the coast from Ceuta to Tetuan. The vessel was hit, but no one was wounded…
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Moors fired on a British Jestroyer voyaging along the coast from Ceuta to Tetuan. The vessel was hit, but no one was wounded…
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WITH the approach of the summer months there is always the danger of sparks from locomotives setting fire to the dry grass within the railway enclosures, and causing…
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As the approaching season is likely to result in an unusually heavy growth of grass, the railway commissioners have given instructions to the maintenance…
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A fire, which but for timely discovery might have had disastrous results involving the block of buildings in Auburn-street lying between Clifford and Montague…
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A FIRE , which did considerable damage to the shop, sittings, and stock of Messrs. Hahn Bros., tobacconists, Auburn-street, took place about 3 p.m. yesterday. The three plate…
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Lake, Doniphan, in Kansas, provides about the most remarkable skating that is to be had in the country. No torchlights or lamps of any kind have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Birds of Japan
In Nagasaki, Japan, there is a firework maker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds of great size that, when exploded, sail in a life like manner through the air, and…
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