Fire Risk in Sydney. "A Fool's Paradise."
The report of the City Building Surveyor (Mr. Brodrick) on the subject of the causes of fires was discussed by the City Council at its meeting last evening…
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Fires & bushfires, 1914
559 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 28
Fire Brigade's Claim
At the Northcote Police Court, Victoria, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade sued Mrs. Catherine Oliver for £32/11/ being charges for the attendance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Lodging House. (By Cable.) London
A fire broke out in nn Armenian lodging house at Milford, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). Seven men were burned to death and…
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One of the sensations of the week was a fire on the Harbor front. by which the cargo wharf of the North German Lioyd, the property of the…
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Sydney, we are told, is running the risk of a more terrible conflagration than it has ever yet witnessed through the absence of effective legislation dealing with the…
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Shortly after 10 o'clock last Saturday night an alarm of fire rang out. Soon it was found the scene of the fire was McGrane's Estate, and the…
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Dr. Creed, M.L.C., chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Prevention of Fire in Sydney and Suburbs, mentions in the course of his report that there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Glasgow. Heavy Damages. London. Thursday evening
A serious fire has occurred at the Kingston Dock, Glasgow, and 360 yards of the quay on the south side and 60 yards, of wharfage on the east side have collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Fire at Glasgow. Damages, £200,000. LONDON, June 19
The fire at the Kensington Dock, Glasgow, it appears, was due to an accident during the work of re-piling the dock. The piles were saturated with creosote oil, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Fire in Sydney. Wharfs and Store Gutted. Damage, £75,000
A huge waterside confiagration broke out in Sydney shortly before 9 o'clock on Saturday night. Before the flames were finally subdued the whole of the wharfs and stores…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Big Fire at Glasoow. £200,000 Damages. (By Cable.) London
A big fire occurred at Glasgow and a number of wharves collapsed. The fire originated accidentally. Four schooners and steamboats were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Fire. London, Sunday night
The Colspoth railway station has been burnt down, an act attributed to suffragettes…
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During a small fire which broke out in a photographic studio in George-street last night, the skylight collapsed, the glass falling in hundreds of pieces on top of three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire. Huge Outbreak at Cloncurry
Shortly after 11 o'clock on Saturday night, a disastrous fire broke out in the Post Office Hotel, Cloncurry, the wellknown copper mining town in the Burke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hugh Fire at Grimsby
Fire has destroyed the Grimsby docks, and half an acre of buildings. The loss is estimated at £200,000…
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Dr. Creed, M.L.C., chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Prevention of Fire in Sydney and Suburbs, mentions in the course of his report that there…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Great Fire at Glasgow. Damages, £250,000. LONDON, Thursday evening
A serious fire has occurred at the Kingston Dock, Glasgow, and 360 yards of the quay on the south side and 60 yards of wharfage on the east side have collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Town on Fire £100,000 Damages Caused. Great Loss of Life Feared. London
A big fire is raging in Salem, Massachnsetts (U.S.A.). Some fine large factory buildings and several smaller structures have already…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fighting Prickly Pear. Pest Beaten at Last. Fire Comes to Man's Aid. Cheap and Effective
The prickly pear fiend is gradually getting into its clutches some of the best land in New South Wales, and unless some drastic steps are soon taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Fire. One Thousand Buildings Destroyed. Damage, £4,000,000. SALEM (Massachusetts), June 26
Nearly half the old "witch city" of Salem, rich in historic buildings, has been devastated by fire. Fully 1000 buildings have been destroyed,…
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