Latest Cable News. Great Fatal Fires
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1899 · page 3
The seve storyed residence of Mr. Wallace Andres, New York millionaire, has been burnt, and the entire family of thirteen perished in the conflagration, excepting two servants. The fire…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 2
THE residence of Mr WallaceAndrews, the New York millionaire, a seven-storoy building was totally destroyed by fire. The whole family, 13…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 12 April 1899 · page 3
THE residence of Wallace Andrews, a New York millionaire was totally destroyed by fire. The whole family, thirteen in all…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1899 · page 3
It has transpired that an infernal machine and explosives were recently Bent to Mr. Wallace Andrews, the American millionaire, whose mansion was destroyed by fire, and by which disaster the…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 2
A terrible fire, by which hineteen lives wered [?] occurred in New York on Saturday last, when the residence of Mr. Wallace Andrews, a New York milionaire was totally…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 3
An upper floor in a building at Hyde Park, a corner premises of eleven storeys has been burned. During the conflagration several exciting rescues of servants and others in the building were effected…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 2
A great fire occurred in the machine shop of the New York Naval Yard. The" damage is estimated at £-200,000…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 April 1899 · page 6
There is a fairy in the firegrate When tho coal is all aglow ; There is, 'cos I've asked mother, And I think she ought to know…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 3
A serious fire occurred to-day in the upper floors of a house 11 storeys high, at hyde Park Comer, the floors being destroyed. Thare were very…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 2
The coronial inquiry into the circumstance surrounding the destruction by fire of Mr. Henry Hamilton's hay abed on the morning of the 4th in that, was brought to…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 May 1899 · page 3
The Coroner has decided to investigate the circumstances of the fire that occurred early yesterday morning at a bearing house at Radfern…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1899 · page 3
An inquest was opened to-day concerning the recent suspicious fire at Redfern…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1899 · page 2
Considerable excitement took place at the Opera House, Sydney, on Saturday night, when a man discharged a revolver from the pit. It was not a part of the play, and the whole house rose as one…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 3
TO-DAY a fire broke out in the town of Dalby, destroying a large number of buildings. The School of Arts was destroyed with all its contents. The…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 5
Considerable excitement took place at the Opera House, Sydney, on Saturday night, when a man discharged a revolver from the pit. It was not a part of the play, and the whole house rose as one…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 3
By a fire which occurred in Paris yesterday the library of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, containing 40,000 volumes, was destroyed…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 2
AN alarm of fire was raised at Aberdeen, about five o'clock on Monday morning. On the residents turning out, which they did right willingly, and in…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 5
SIR,—I was much annoyed when reading the report of the proceedings of the Hunter River Water and Sewerage Hoard, which appeared in yours of this evening's date, wherein that body…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 3
Shortly after three o'clock this morning, a fire was discovered in a private dwelling house, situate in Brisbane-street, occupied by John Green. The conflagation was extinguished by the inmates with…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 3
News has since been received that the fire which destroyed Dawson City, Klondyke, was caused by the upsetting of a lamp…
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