A Coal Mine on Fire
The fire in Butler colliery, a short distance from the Leigh and Susquehanna Railroad on the outskirts of Pittston, continues (October 27) to burn fiercely. At…
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8 stories in Illawarra's papers
Disastrous Fire at Bathurst. Bathurst, Wednesday Evening
There is dreadful consternation in the city in consequence of a fire which has broken out at Lords's buildings, Howick-street, to-night. The buildings consist of a row of shops occupying the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence Fires and the Fire Engine. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—On reading in your last issue the account of the destructive fire which took place recently in the town of Bathurst, my mind reverted to the matter of our Fire Engine. We have heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destruction of the Victoria Theatre by Fire
About 11 o'clock last Thursday night, and just after the performance of the "Emigrant," and [?]sh, the Yankee," at the Victoria Theatre, had concluded, an alarm of fire rang through the city…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MISCELLANEOUS. Another Disastrous Fire
WITHIN 48 hours from the destruction of the Victoria Theatre the city again witnessed another serious and extensive conflagration destroying property amounting to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Disastrous Fire in Sydney
Misfortunes tread upon each other's heels, so fast they follow," we are told, and fires in Sydney prove no exceptions to the rule. No sooner has the excitement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shellharbour.—death by Fire
AN inquest was held on Wednesday last, 22nd instant, before the district coroner H. Connell Esq., on the body of a child named Alfred James Bright, aged eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Household. Don't Fan Fire
IF you should come upstairs some day and see a little smouldering fire just starting in one of your floors, stealing stealthily into the carpet, you would not be very likely to sit…
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