Pictures in the Fire
"SWEET Norah, come here, and look into the fire; Perhaps in its embers good luck we may see;…
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Fires & bushfires, 1880
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Fire-proofing Cotton Clothing. (Scientific American.)
In a paper on some conditions of inflammability, read before a sanitary convention in Michigan, Dr. Kedzie, of the State Board of Health, said that cotton clothing could be prevented from taking fire by the use…
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Norwich, Connecticut, is supplied with water from an artifical pond three and a half miles from the city. It is brought to the city in pipes by gravity pressure. The city is provided with two way hydrants located…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in George-street, Sydney. (From Wednesday's Echo.)
Early this morning the stillness of George-street West was rudely broken-in upon by an alarm of fire, the reasons for which were quickly observed by those attracted to the…
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At about half-past 10 o'clock on Wednesday night, the alarm of fire was rung out from the city fire brigade offices, and the various appliances for subduing the…
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Soon after half-past one p.m. on April 30, as passengers were passing by No. 127, Aldersgate-street, a large wholesale druggists' warehouse kept by Messrs. Hodgkinson, fire…
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On the afternoon of Monday last a fire broke out in Morpeth, in a tenement occupied by Patrick Brennan and his family, off Swan-street, just below the Crown and Anchor…
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"Anthracite," writing to the New York Tribune from Wilkes[?]arre, Pa., gives an interesting account of the means lately employed in quenching the fire in the Stanton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegrams. (Through Grevills's Telegram Com.) Great Fire in Sydney
AFTER the performance was over, and shortly after eleven last night, the Victoria Theatre, Pitt-street, was discovered to be on fire, and in spite of the…
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Betweene levenand twelve o'clock Thursday night the awful news commenced to be spread abroad in Sydney that the Victoria Theatre was being devoured by that…
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On the 15th July the Woolpack Inn, Renwicktown, Blenheim, occupied by Mr. George Stevenson, was completely destroyed by fire. One man perished in the flames, and four…
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ANOTHER fire broke out in Sydney on Wednesday morning. We take the following details from the Echo of that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Waterloo. (From Wednesday's Echo.)
About 1 o'clock this morning Mr. James Johnson, proprietor of the Waterloo scouring and woolwashing establishment, discovered flames issuing from those premises,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Quirindi. [From Our Correspondent.] Fire
On Sanday bight last the Premises of Mr. William Craig, known as the Bird in[?] Hand Hotel, barely escaped destrution. by fire, and but for the energy displayed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Destructive Fire at Ten[?]er[?]eld Station. ([?]rom the Ten[?]erfield Sta[?], August 7.)
W[?] regret to have to chronicle this week another of those scandalous outrages that last year were prevalent in this neighbourhood. We allude to the total destruction by fire of…
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IN a paper on some conditions of inflammability, read before a sanitary convention in Mi[?]igan, Dr. Kedzie, of the State Board of Health, said that cotton clothing could be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →he Maitland Mercury. Saturday, August 28,1880. "Observer's" Sydney Notes. FIRES
It will, I have no doubt, bo interesting to the readers of the Mercury to know what provision the Insurance Companies have made for fire prevention in and around this city. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Eeport on Hayman's Fire. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Would you kindly correct an erroneous impression which seems to be going among the public. Your reporter leaves out one fact, which proves I had a doubt on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extensive Oil Fires in Pennsylvania. Bradford, Pa., July 14
A terrible storm of thunder and lightning passed over this region to-night at half-past eleven o'clock. A 25,000 barrel iron tank, full of oil, belonging to the united pipe lines,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires in Sydney. (From Monday's Echo.)
At a little after midnight on Saturday morning a fire broke out in a private dwelling-house in Brisbane-street, occupied by Mr. August Scott. It appears that a…
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