Chapter Iv. in a Furnace of Fire
"By-and-bye I was again in my studio, but though the sun shone as brightly as when I bad left it an hour earlier, there was a void which I could not fill all about me. I had…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
115 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 6
A Suspicious Fire
The Melbourne Telegraph gives particulars of the discovery of a fire at the Palace Hotel at 2 a.m. on Saturday:—Just before 2 o'clock this morning there was great commotion at the Palace Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in a Balmain Timber Yard. (From the Echo of Monday.)
What proved to be a very extensive and destructive confiagration broke out at about five minutes past 2 o'clock this morning in Mr. J. P. Walker's timber yard, Reynolds-street, Balmain. At the…
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THE adjourned inquest on the late fire at the Northern Argus office was concluded at Narrabri on Tuesday. Several witnesses were called to prove…
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Following from the Echo, are fuller particulars of the fire on the Namoi, of which we were apprised by telegraph on Thursday afternoon:— What proved to be a rather destructive fire broke…
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WHAT proved to be a rather destructive fire broke out at a quarter to 9 on Thursday morning on board the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company's S.S. Namoi, lying at…
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From the Echo of Thursday we take the following farther details:— The area covered by the conflagation extends from Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard and Co's entrance to…
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EARLY on Thursday intelligence was received by telegraph of the outbreak, at about 2 o'clock in the morning of that day, of a fire at the premises of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard…
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A TERRIBLE conflagration occurred in Sydney this morning. The whole block of buildings bounded by Pitt, Moore. and Castlereagh Streets, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Destructive Fire in Sydney. [By Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Sydney, Thursday morning
A terribly disastrous fire broke out in Sydney in Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.'s printing establishment at half-past two this morning. The flames extended with terrible rapidity, building after building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Disastrous Fire in Sydney. [By Telegraph From Greville's Telegram Co.] Friday evening
Streams of water from all directions were played throughout the day upon the ruins of the late fire, and all fears of a further outbreak have now passed. Some strong rooms at the back of Eldon Chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Fire In Sydney. (From Saturday's S. M. Herald.)
Throughout Thursday night and all Friday streams of water were kept playing upon the remains of the premises which formed the food of the great fire; but the débris is still a mass of burning…
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Men were engaged to-day de[?]olishing the ruins of the buildings destroyed by the great fire. A laborer, named Clements, was assisting…
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Superintendent Bear saw the Coroner today, for the purpose of expediting the holding of an inquest on the late fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Church at New Lambton. Panic of the People. Nearly a Great Calamity
ON Sunday night, about 8 o'clock (says the Newcastle Herald), a fire occurred in the Primitive Church. New Lambton, which caused a serious panic amongst the…
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The inquest on the fire at the premises of Messrs Gibbs, Shall[?]rd and Co. has been postponed until next Wednesday. One iron safe belonging to the firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fire in Melbourne. a Brave Dauguhter
A FATAL fire occurred on Tuesday morning in South Melbourne, in a small two-storey wooden tenement occupied by Mrs Margaret Atkinson, laundress, and her daughter, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Town of Tokay destroyed by Fire
The little Hungarian town of Tokay, of vintage fame, has been utterly destroyed by fire. Its churches, hotels, schools, public binary, museum, theatre, and other public buildings have every one…
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A fire has occurred at a hat factory in Smithfield, London, by which live girls and one man were killed, and many were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Explosion. Dreadful Scenes at a Fire
DREADFUL scenes were witnessed at a fire in Host Fifty-sixth-street, New York, on September [?]. The lower parts of two buildings there are used by Mr Hagan as a…
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