Mining Matters. Greta Colliery Fire
[?]hough, as expected, some difficulty was ex[?]ced, the work of scaling down the Greta [?]y was completed on Monday evening. It was [?] impossible to reverse the current of air…
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Fires & bushfires, 1903
239 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 12
The Fire in Colney Hatch
By the fire in Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum fifty deaths were cased. The outbreak occurred at half past five in an annexe containing two hundred women, who were in bed. A high wind prevailed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late News by Cable. London, Jan, 27. an Appalling Fire
A fire broke out this morning in the colony Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and assumed great proportions. The fire is still raging. It is reported that many inmates of the asylum have been burned to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lunatic Asylum of Fire. Inmetes Terror Strickers
A TERRIBLE condagration is raging this mornings at Colney Hatch, about seven miles from St. Paul's the London County Lunatic Asylum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Jews by Cable. London, Jan, 28. the Colney Hatch Fire
The annexe in which the fire occurred was constructed. of wood, and contained five wards, the inmates of which numbered 330 pauper cripples. One hundred of tho inmates were quite bedridden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Fire. at Colney Hatch Asylum. Great Loss of Life
LONDON, January 27.—A fire broke out this morning in the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and is still raging. It is reported that many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Appalling Fire. London, Jan. 28
A fire broke out yesterday morning in the Colony Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and assumed great proportions. The fire has been extinguished. Fifty lives were lost. The outbreak occurred at half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire at Colney Ratch. Fifty-Two Lives Lost. LONDON
fURTHER details of the terrible fire at the London County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch state that the annexe in which the fire oceurred was…
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The town residents on Sunday afternoon last while preparing to go for drives and walks to the various beauty spots, became suddenly aware of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queer Scene at a French Fire
"I happened to see the start of a fire in Paris," said F. D. Higbee, in the "Buffalo News." "It was a rather ugly blaze in a three-story building. I thought the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Practice. Yours very truly, John. Kiou
ON Saturday atternoon as[?] the Singleton Fire Brigade Ind[?]ged in some rather unique practies at the fire station, which attracted quite a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shell Fire Experiments
Experiments were carried out off the Isle of Wight yesterday in pounding the old battleship Belle Isle with shells, The experiments showed that if a single high explosive projectile from a 98in. gun…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at the Australia
A fire at the Australia Hotel early this morning is supposed to have originated through the fusion of electric wires, which ran above the ceiling of the billiard-room. About one hundred and fifty guests…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Matters. Greta Colliery Fire
Mr. Joshua Jeffries, manager of the Metropolitan Colliery, in the Southern district, and formerly manager of the Greta Colliery, believes that the recent outbreak of fire in the Greta mine, will,…
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Tibbles' Vi-Cocoa Works at Walford were burned down. The damage is estimated at one hundred thousand pounds…
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A disastrous fire has occurred at Kuty, Galicia. Three hundred and seventy private houses and many public buildings were burned. Five hundred families have been rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Colney Hatch Fire
The verdict of the coroner's jury at the inquest on the body of victims of the fire at Colney Hatch lunatic asylum was to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. The jury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Train Sensation. Engine on Fire
A SENSATION was caused on board the express trdin from Melbourn to Ade; laide on Tuesday night, when the packing of the engine took fire just…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Bush Fires at Dungog. Heartrending Accounts. Dungog
A destructive bush fire which raged in the districts to the west came into Dungog yesterday, and one house was destroyed within the town boundaries. Houses and barns were burnt outside the town in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Blaze at Dagworth
Yesterday morning, also, a fire started in the large paddocks of Mrs. M. A. Lee, at Dagworth. There were several hundreds of acres of long grass, most of quite dry, and the fire spread with great rapidity,…
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