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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
49 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
An extra of the DeKalb News, issued at six o'clock on Friday evening, contains the following account of a disaster which occurred on the same afternoon at the DeKalb fair grounds;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The annual meeting of this brigade was held at the engine station last Friday evening. There was a good attendance of members; Superintendent Galley occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible fire has occurred here, which has annihilated the finest business quarter of the city. The whole district burnt was built during the past decade, at a vast expense. It consisted of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire broke out on the 9th November, at halfpast four p.m., in rear of the large five-storey granite building, Nos. 87 to 91, Summer-st., at the corner of Kingston-st. The building was surmounted with a high…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I see in your issue of last Saturday a report of the above fire; with your usual kindness I wish you would allow me to correct it. On last Thursday morning, the 23rd, about two o'clock, I was awoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning about half-past 2 o'clock a destructive fire broke out in Lower George-street, in one of the houses known as Underwood's-buildings. The conflagration rapidly spread to adjoining houses,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The taking of evidence in the inquest on the recent fire in George-street, north Sydney, was commenced before the City Coroner on Wednesday. The first witness was Ellen Dingwall, who deposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday a most remarkable phenomenon occurred at King Sutton, near Banbury, by which a man had a narrow escape. No less than 17 trees were torn up by the roots, 36…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday last, at two o'clock, a magisterial enquiry was held by A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., at the Colliery Inn, Wallsend, touching the death of William Simm, miner, who died on the same morning from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner for the district, held an inquiry, on Thursday last, at the house of John Bogan, Penshurst, into the circumstances attending the destruction by fire of a certain wheat shed, or barn,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in Hunter-street, nearly opposite the Pilot office, in the block of buildings occupied severally by Mr. Ingall, draper; Miss Jones, milliner;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most disastrous fires that has ever befallen Newcastle. Despite the very slight alarm given to the peaceful and well conducted citizens who had retired to their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday an enquiry was held at the Northumberland Hotel, Newcastle, by Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner, from Maitland, into the circumstances attending the late fire in Hunter-street. The jury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About a quarter to eleven o'clock on last Saturday night, a number of persons residing near Woolloomooloo Bay discovered that the premises between Dowling and Duke streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain W. O. Hersee, late master of the C. and R. R. S. N. Co.'s steamship Fire King, recently wrecked on the Manning River, arrived in Sydney at one o'clock this morning, in the Morpeth (s.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday, 23rd May, a fire was discovered in the Anvil Creek coal mine, by the proprietor, Mr. Farthing, and the underground manager. From the position of the scene of the fire, and the nature of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The magnificent public building, known as the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, six miles north of London, has been completely destroyed by fire. The vast building was opened only a fortnight ago by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest on the recent fire at the Toorale station was held on the 29th May, before A.O. Grant, Esq., coroner for the district, and a jury of seven. Dominic Toowey deposed: I am a senior constable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early yesterday morning a fire occurred at Plattsburg, by which the office of the Miners' Advocate, newspaper, was burnt to the ground. The premises in question were situated in the main thoroughfare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last the District Coroner, Mr. A. A. P. Tighe, held an inquest at the White Swan Inn, Plattsburgh, Wallsend,respecting the destruction by fire of the premises recently occupied by Mr. John…
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