Fires in Queensland. Business Premises Destroyed
A disastrous fire occurred at Crow's Nest at about three o'clock on Tuesday morning, resulting in Jardine and Peterson's grocery and ironmongery, business, M'Donald's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1912
581 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 30
Hotel Fire Fatalities. Los Angeles
At an hotel fire, five of the guests leaped to the pavement from a height of four stories and were killed. Jones, the liftman, saved many lives by running the elevator,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Annandale. Lyt[?]te Factory Destroyed
A two-storey brick building at 21 Johnston-street, Annandale, occupied by the Australian Lythite Explosive Company, was destroyed by fire on Thursday. The cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires in Queensland. Business Premises Destroyed
A disastrous fire occurred at Crow's Nest at about three o'clock on Tuesday morning, resulting in Jardine and Peterson's grocery and ironmongery business, M'Donald's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Upkeep
The following letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners which was rend at last meeting of the local Municipal Council, will doubtless be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Exciting Fire Scenes
A large dranery store at Clonnel has been hurst down. Exciting scenes occurred as the proprietor and his family and twenty assistants were imprisoned, and only resened just…
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New York, Tuesday.—Chemicals exploded on the fifth floor of the Union Sulphur Company's plant in Brooklyn. Seventy employees were hurled in all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood. Fire, and Hail
A farmer near Laidley, Queensland, has suffered misfortune for three successive years with a ten-acre plot cultivated for maize. The 1910 crop was ruined by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire at Botany. Wool Works Destroyed
At about a Quarter to 9 last night a fire broke out in a portion of the drying sheds of the Bunnerong wool-scouring and packing works at Botany, owned by P…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Annandale. Lythite Factory Destroyed
A two-storey brick building at 21 Johnston-street, Annandale, occupied by the Australian Lytbite Explosive Company, was destroyed by fire on Thursday. The cause of the…
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At a quarter to 9 on Wednesday night a fire broke out in a portion of the drying sheds of the, Bunneroug wool-scouring and packing works, af Botany, owned by P…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Siege of Adrianople. In a Circle of Fire
London. Wednesday.—;Mr Bennest Barleigh, the correspondent of the London "Daily Telepragh," has inspected the investment of Adrlanople. He finds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Melbourne. Some Sensational Escapes
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade did good work on Saturday at a fire in Melbourne which threatened to extend to an alarming magnitude, but which was checked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Cable News. Great Fire in Glasgow. London
A great fire has occurred at Glasgow, Campbell and Co's warehouses have been destroyed, and the City Hall is throutoned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Fire. Hamburg
A fire has occurred on the Hamburg-American liner Cilicia. The cargo is practically destroyed…
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There was a serious, fire in Melbourne on Saturday morning. The seene of the outhrak was a new building recently acted by J. Sutton and Co. music…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Fire in Glasgow. London, Monday evening
Campbell's, the largest, warehouse in Glasgow, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 60,000, and hundreds of employees have been thrown out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York Fire. Sensational Rescues. New York
A crowded apartment house has been destroyed by fire, Two persons were burnt to death, five received injuries, to which they have succumbed, and five are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Naval Gunnery. Fire Control Tests. London, Dec. 3
Yesterday H.M.S. Orion using the service fire control beat H.M.S. Thunderer, which os equipped with Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott's director, in big gun shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Guard Against Bush Fires
The dry grass which is abundant in most of the paddocks throughout the Upper Hunter is now in a very inflammable condition, so Unit great care should be exercised with…
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