Fire at Ellisland
"We regret to learn that Mr M. Waddell, of Ellisland, was a heavy loser by a fire which took place on his property last Monday. The outbreak occurred about 5…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
250 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 13
Fire Brigades Demonstration. £1000 Asked For. the Premier Favours the Project. Sydney
A large deputation to-day urged the Premier to have provision have provision made for a sum of £1000, in order to hold a Fire Brigades demonstration in Sydney. Certain Love pointed out that the men who…
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Telegrams from Germanston (Tas.), dated yesterday, to Sydney, state: A catastrophe occurred at Germanston about 2 o'clock this morning. Lyach's Criterion Hotel, containing 19 rooms,…
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A fire occurred early this morning, when a seven-roomed house belonging to Alfred Cooper was totally destroyed. The premises were insured in the Norwich Union Office for £150. The house…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fatal Fire. [By Telegraph] Sydney
A SAD burning fatality occurred at Attuuga, near Tainworth, yesterday. Three boys named Carey were letting off fireworks on their way from school,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Catastrophe in Tasmania. Fire in a Hotel. Six Men Burned to Death
A CATASTROPHE occurred at Gormanston about 2 o'clock on Monday morning. Lynch's Criterion Hotel, containing 19 rooms, was burned to the…
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A CATASTROPHE occurred at Germanston about 2 o'clock on Monday morning. Lynch's Criterion Hotel, containing 19 rooms, was burned to the…
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Telegrams from Gormanston (Tas.), dated Monday, to Sydney, state: — A catastrophe occurred at Gormanston about 2 o'clock this morning. Lynch's Criterion Hotel, containing 19 rooms,…
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A grea fire has occurred at Sunderland, in Durham, Robinson's Havelock House and other business places were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £250,000…
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A notable person has passed away from this troubled sphere in Mrs. Catherine O'Leary, late of Chicago. One memorable night in October. 1871, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. the West Maitland Fire Brigade
SIR.—As one who chanced to be in the vicinity of the Fire Brigade Station, when the alarm of fire was received from Mount Pleasant-street, last night, I desire to bear testimony to the promptness…
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Let thy gold be cast in the furnace, Thy red gold, precious and bright; Do not fear the hungry fire. With its caverns of burning light;…
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In an article on the heroes of the New York Fire Service a contributor to the February Century describes two remarkable feats by Captain (then Sergeant) Vaughan,…
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The Coroner bag decided to hold on inquiry concerning the suspicious fire which occurred in a weatherboard building in North Sydney yesterday. An inquest will also be hold with regard to an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires on the Continent. LONDON
Many fires, accompanied by serious destruction of property, are reported from all parts of the Continent. The town of Concarneau, in the…
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EARLY on Sunday thE Metropolitan Fire Brigade receded a call to the Sydney Wool-scouring Company's works at Botany-road, Waterloo. On…
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Owing to H fire in a canvas and wood tent at a cinematograph exhibition at Penge, two hundred persons narrowly escaped being burnt to death…
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A great fire has occurred at Smyrna, Asia Minor, the Custom House being destroyed with other buildings…
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Colston Hall, Bristol, in which trades-union congresses meet, has been destroyed by fire. The grand organ was ruined…
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A shocking burning fatality is reported from the township of Marhoura, 23 miles from Deniliquin. It appears that a farm laborer named…
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