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18 stories in Illawarra's papers
THE particulars of this unfortunate incident would have been forwarded to the Mercury earlier but from the supposition that so serious a matter was most likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following memorandum has been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office, dated December 21:— "The recent tragedy in the Brooklyn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is said that a singular phenomenon can now be seen in Clarion county Pa., on a small stream known as the Catfish Run. For a long time the inhabitants of that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About midnight on Friday the alarm of fire was rung through the city, and almost simultaneously flames were seen bursting up in the direction of George-street, between Hunter-street and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT midnight the alarm of fire was rung through the city, and almost simultaneously flames were seen bursting up in the direction of George-street, between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday forenoon we made further inquiries concerning the fire. None of the Mountcastle family have, we are happy to say, been seriously injured, although some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT half-past 4 o'clock yesterday morning, a disastrous fire broke out on the grocery premises of Messrs. Hanks and Co., in George-street. The progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE sat within the farm-house old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance night and day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after 7 o'clock on Sunday evening the inhabitants of the quiet and uneventful township of Many were thrown into a state of great consternation and alarm by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →St. John's, New Brunswick, has been almost destroyed by fire. The damage done has been estimated at about fifteen million dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT 3 o'clock on Monday morning, the town of Forbes was again startled by the cry of fire. It was in fated Rankin-street (says the Forbes Times) the scene of all our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The greater part of this town has been destroyed by conflagration, which broke out at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at York Point. The fire, being fanned by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ESCAPE FROM FIRE.—One of the most providential escapes from a great fire occurred on the 12th instant, at Moses' Royal Hotel, Mudgee. It appears that at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A destructive fire has occurred at the American Patent Office, and 75,000 models has been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fatal fire broke out this morning in Molesworth-street at 3 o'clock. It commenced in a cottage occupied by a widow named Johnson, and aided by a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This splendid clipper steamer which was recently purchased by the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and employed by them in the Fijian trade, and which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS splendid clipper steamer which was recently purchased by the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and employed by them in the Fijian trade, and which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire, during which there was an explosion, had taken place in a New York confectionary factory. Seventy persons were killed and thirty injured…
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