Fire Brigade
The Cessnock Fire Brigade has procured a new bell, which has been installed on a site in Vincent—street, pending the granting of a site for a fire station. The bell was given a trial on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1909
392 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 20
Colliery on Fire
Reports received at Vancouver state that thirty men are imprisoned in a burning colliery at Dunsmuir, near Ladysmith. It is also reported that fourteen…
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Mr. Matthews, an officer of the Survey Department at East Maitland, paid a visit to the town on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Fire Brigade. Testing the New Bell
After wet practice in Cumberland Street, on Wednesday afternoon, the firemen adjourned to the temporary shed to test the fire-bell, supported on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire and Explosion. Casualties in Italy. London
Twenty-five girl workers in a dyna mite factory at Benevento, in Italy, have been terribly injured by a fire. A cauldron of phosphorus caught alight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Large Fire at Wickham. Box Factory Totally Destroyed
A serious fire occurred on Thursday morning at Wickham resulting in the total destruction of a box factory own ed by Mr Frederick Viggers, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Large Fire in London. Hop Warehouse Destroyed. London, Friday afternoon
One out of four of Leomay's hop warehouses at Southwark has been gutted by fire. Five thousand pockets of hops were destroyed, and the damage is estimated at £60,000. The other…
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On Saturday night, about 9.30 while sergeant wensor and constable kennedy were standing in Elgin—street in the vicinity of the Railway Hotel, they had their attention drawn to…
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During the beat of Sunday afternoon several bush fires broke out on the outskirts of Sydney, the biggest blaze being at La Perouse, where 20 acres of bush,…
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It was incidentally mentioned at Mon day night's meeting of the Municipal Council that the new Fire Brigades' Bill had practically passed through the final…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loss of an Island Trader. Destroyed by Fire. Newcastle
News was brought here from Noumea this morning by the steamer St. Louis of the total loss of the Island trader Oui Oui, a schoonerrigged motor vessel of slightly over 200 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sydney. (By Telegraph). Sydney
A fire this morning gutted Reberts fro cery store in Oxford-street and made a sad wreck of the exrensive stock. The place contained three floors, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on a Steamer. Bdatswain Suffocated. (By Telegraph). Sydney
Upon the arrival of the steamer Sur rey from Sydney at Williamstown (Vie) this morning it was reported that a fire broke out in the coal bunkers…
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Advices from Montreal state that the lament place threatened by the forest fires it Lachine, a manufacturing city nine miles west of Montreal (says an Ottawa,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on the Surrey
With reference to the outbreak of fire in the lower starboard coal bunker, of the steamer Surrey, additional particu lars show how the two members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →60-mile River of Flame. Vast Havoc of the American Forest Fires
A great river of flame, sixty-miles long and ten miles wide, is sweeping resistlessly across the lower half of the peninsula of Michigan (says a New York message of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Girls Killed at a Fire. Dog Saves Three Lives
Two girls lost their lives and a third was seriously injured as the result of a fire which broke out in the carly hours of morning at a confectioner's shop tenanted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late News by Cable. Disastrous Fire. [?] Water Front Ablaze Ramage £300,000. LONDON, Oct. 18
[?] fire has occurred on the water [?] A grain elevator with 200,000 [?] eight sheds full of freight, a [?] house, and a Customs—house…
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News from Fiji states that a trader named Charles Frederickston was burnt to death on his promises, which were totally, destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Disastrous Fire. Bega
Three buildings were destroyed by fire at Bega last night. namely. Pell's auction rooms, Ranking's ladies' warehouse, and Matthews' music store. A number of…
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