Fire at Orange. Considerable Damage
A fire broke out in Forster and Thompson general store, Orange at half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday morning. A lad named William Bell, employed at the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1913
580 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 29
The Balkan Blaze. Startling Development Turkey Re-takes Adrinnople London
A FRESH complication of a starting character has taken place in the trouble Balkans. Turkey, taking advantage of Bulgaria's pre-occupation with Greece…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fires. Fifty Factory Girls Killed. Heart-rending Scenes. Binghampton (N.y.), July 23
Fifty working girls perished in a fire which destroyed an overall factory. When the alarm ywas raised, 120 girls dashed, panicstricken,from the building, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York Fire. Factory Girls Perish. (By Cable.) London
A fire destroyed a big factory in New York. There were 134 people in the building, mostly women and girls. Many jumped from the windows and were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Orange. Considerable Damage
A fire broke out in Forster and Thompson's general store, Orange, at half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday morning. A lad named William Bell, employed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Sulphur Mine. Forty Fatalities. Rome
Forty miners have been killed through a fire in a sulphur mine at San Glovanelli (Sicily). A heap of bodies was found at the pit bottom, where men fought for places…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fires. Fifty Factory Girls Killed. Heart-rending Scenes. Binghampton (N.y.), July 23
Fifty working girls perished in a fire which destroyed an overall factory. When the alarm yuas raised, 120 girls dashed, panic-stricken, from the building, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →280 Schoolboys in a Fire. Escape in Night Clothes Down Canvas Chutes
Two hundred and eighty schoolboys, many in their night clothes, escaped from a fire at 2.30 on the morning of June 5 at St. John's School, Leaderhead. About 100…
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A fire invested with suspicious circuit stances occurred in St. Xaxler's Catholic schoolroom early yesterday morning. Shortly after 6 o'clock some Chinese, who were…
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The Catholic school, in Cambridgestreet, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Sunday morning. Some Chinese gardeners preparing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire Near Sydney. Margarine Works Destroyed
About 1.30 this morning the engineer of S. Kitchen & Sons, Ltd., soap and candle [?]andiactures, Botany, discovered a fire in one portion of the works occupied by the…
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The suspicious circumstances attaching to the fire at St. Xavier's Roman Catholic Schoolroom on Sunday morning last formed the subject of an inquiry by Mr. David…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at a School Verdict of Incendiarism
An inquest into the cause of the fire which occurred at St Xavier's Catholic School on Sunday morning was held yesterday afternòn before the coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire Near Sydney. Margarine Works Destroyed
About 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday the engineer of S. Kitchen & Sons, Ltd., soap and candle manufacturers, Botany, discovered a fire in the portion of the works occupied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Sydney. Exciting Incidents
A fire, resulting in extensive damage, broke out at 58 and 60 Oxford-street, Sydney, just before midnight. At about 11.15 Constable Wells, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Missing Farmer. Remains in a Fire
The inquiry concerning the death of William James Mullins, a farmer, of Sunnyside, near Mathinna, Tasmania, who mysteriously disappeared on June 20, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Canadian Fire. Whole Town Destroyed. Winnipeg
[?] fire has destroyed the town of Atha-[?] Landing in the far north of the pro[?] of Alberta. Hundreds of people are [?]. The outbreak originated in an[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires in England. Attributed to Suffragettes. (By Cable.) London
A house at Lynton, valued at £12,000, has been destroyed by fire. Nineteen bombs were discovered in the grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Missing Farmer. Remains in a Fire
The inquiry concerning the death of William James Mullins, a farmer, of Sunnyside, near Mathiuna (Tas.), who mysteriously disappeared on June 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Missing Farmer. Remains in a Fire
The inquest into the death of William James Mullins was continued on Wednesday at Mathinna, Tasmania. The evidence of the previous day had established the fact…
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