Great Fire in Boston. Exciting Scenes-Several Lives Lost
The conflagration which caused such extensive damage in Boston on 17th March (says an English paper), was of greater magnitude than any fire which…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
58 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
An Extensive Fire. a Wine Collar Destroyed. [By Cable]. London
AN extensive Eschannuer wine collar at Bordeaux has been entirely destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Playing With Fire
"Juggling with fire was practised in very ancient times," said a learned professor. "Many of the tricks of that sort which are best known to-day were employed to deceive the vulgar thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Large Fires in Sydney. Soap and Candle Works
At about 4 o'clock on Monday morning a fire occurred at the works of the Sydney Soap and Candle Company, Alexandria, and resulted in their total…
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Plummer's store and the Australian Joint Stock Bank at Smithtown were burned to the ground this morning. Mr Plummer's family escaped from…
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The person who at a fire in Smithtown on Monday, threw a baby from a balcony to save its life, when he might have easily taken it down stairs, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in a Theatre. Miss Maggie Moore Severely Burned
DURING the fire scene iv the performance of " Mliss," at the Wellington (New Zealand) Opera House, the scenery caught fire. The curtain was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Bishop's Palace on Fire
Bishop's Court, Douglas, the residence of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, was partially destroyed by fire at an early hour on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Late Fire in Sydney. Suspicious Circumstances. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The coroner has decided to hold an inquest to commence on Monday, on the suspicious fire at Pyman, Harkness and Co.'s store…
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A fire broke out in St. John's schoolroom, Parramatta, this morning and a gable end was burnt. The fire brigades promptly attended and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Chicago Exhibition Destruction of Exhibits. London
THE cold storage warehouse at the Chicago Exhibition has been burned down. Twenty-five firemen were killed by the sudden collapse of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in John-street. Mr J. M'Grogan's Premises Destroyed
A fire occurred iv John-street on Thursday afternoon, by which the story wooden building, in which were a tobacconist shop, hairdrossing saloon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire at Mr M'grogan's Coroner's Inquest
MR W. WALKER, Coroner for the district, held an inquest at the Railway Hotel, South Singleton, on Thursday last, touching the origin of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Singleton. the Late Fire in John-street, Singleton
An inquest was held before the Coroner, William Walker, Esq., and a jury of twelve persons, on Thursday, the 27th instant, at the Railway Hotel, touching the origin of a fire at the premises of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Fire in Poland [By Cable.] London
A DISASTROUS fire is reported as having occurred in Poland. It appears that during a storm at Birsh, near Warsaw, the lightning struck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World on Fire
In the Cosmopolitan for June Camille Flammarion, the distinguished French writer, describes with his accustomed power a (supposed) collision between the earth and a great comet in the 25th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Labor Riots in England. Military Fire on the Mob. Three Men Killed
ADDITIONAL outrages of a serious nature have been perpotrated by the miners on strike in England. In the Midland counties mobs have wrecked…
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Mr. C. B. Lowe, the well-known sportsman, who is at present in America, writes thus to a contemporary: About 10 days back we had a very big fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] Fatal Fire
[?] broke out on Tuesday night in [?]duce store of Mr G. Toohey, Glebe-street, Glebe, Sydney, completely gutted the store, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Original Correspondence. Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—That the condition of the labouring classes might be considerably improved, and that the many hardships and sufferings to which considerable numbers of them are frequently exposed…
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