19 Hours in Pit Fire. Man's Life to Save Mates. Three Brothers Perish
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 October 1913 · page 5
Many heroic deeds were performed in the attempts to rescue the twenty-six miners who were imprisoned by fire in one of the pits of the Carron Company at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Incorrigible Suffragettes. Another Fire. London, Sunday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1913 · page 5
The suffragettes have burnt a large unoccupied residence at Hampton-on-Thames. The damage is estimated at £3000. Rachael Pearce and Mary Richardson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Fire. Man and Wife Incinerated. Auckland (N.z.)
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 October 1913 · page 5
A house occupied by. James Given was destroyed by fire at Auckland on Saturday, and Given and his wife were incinerated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burnt Out. Stationmaster's Quarters
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1913 · page 2
The residential quarters of the Condobolin stationmaster, occupied by the stationmaster, Mr. Schumaker, and family, were destroyed by fire on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Oakhampton
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1913 · page 4
Early this morning an outbreak of fire occurred in an old, unoccupied cottage in Mears' Lane, off the Oakhampton-road, which was gutted. An alarm was received…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Blaze in Sydney. Extensive Damage
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1913 · page 5
At about halt-pass 12 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the wheelwright's and joinery works of Mossrs, West and Co., Bridge-road, Glehc, and resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alaskan Disaster. Flood and Fire. New York. Oct. 7
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1913 · page 5
The whole business section of the small town of Nome, Alaska, has been demolished by fire. The fire occurred during a storm which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion and Fire. Berlin, Oct. 8
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 2
All explosion which occurred in a powder mill caused a fire in an adjoining sugar and honey factory at Hamburg, which resulted in damage to the extent of £100,000. Six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Ait the Glebe. Extensive Damage. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 2
Early this morning a fire broke out in the wheelwright's and joinery works of Messrs. West and Co., Bridge-road, Glebe, and resulted in the destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arms on Fire with Eczema. Disease Banished by Zam-Buk
Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 1
For three months Miss Norah Quiglay, of 13 Cowper-street, Glebe, Sydney, was tortured night and day by a distressing form of eczema, and it is only…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alarm of Fire
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 4
An alarm of fire this morning fronted considerable, excitement in the town, and large numbers on bicycles, in vehicles, on horseback, and foot followed the fire brigade to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Factory Fire. £4000 Damage
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 5
Damage to the amount of about £1000 was caused by a fire which partially destroyed it factory at Messrs. F. and G. Hooper, Ltd., soap and cordial manufactures, at Toowoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Blaze in Sydney. Extensive Damage
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 7
At about 12.30 o'clock on wednesday a fire broke out in the wheelwright's and joinery works of Messrs. West and Co., Bridge-road, Glebe, and resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telephone at Fire Station
Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 6
While a letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners, was being considered at the Council meeting on Thursday night, the Mayor (Alderman E. J. Head)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telephone at Fire Station
Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 8
While a letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners was being considered at the Council meeting on Thursday night, the Mayor (Alderman E. J. Head)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Largest Liner. Gallant Officer's Sacrifice
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 12
The Hamburg-American liner Imperator, the largest steamer afloat, which arrived at New York on the evening of August 26, with 3000 passengers, was the sc[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Alaskan Disaster. Flood and Fire. New York. Oct. 7
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 3
The whole business section of the small town of Nome, Alaska, has been demolished by fire. The fire occurred during a storm which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train on Fire. Mails Destroyed
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 October 1913 · page 5
A van attached to a train from Stawell to Ballarat caught fire on Friday night, about two miles from Doble station. The driver and fireman saw the flames,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Disaster at Sea. Appalling Fire. 236 Lives Lost. London, Oct. 12
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 October 1913 · page 5
A fire broke out on the steamer Volturno a (Canadian Northern Steamships. Ltd.) (Canadian from Rotterdam to New York, and, as far as is known, out of 757…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Atlantic Disaster Steamer on Fire. Many Lives Lost
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 October 1913 · page 2
London, Saturday.—The British steamer Volturno, bound from Rotterdam to.New York, has been abandoned on fire in the Atlantic. The "Volturno was…
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