New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Fire at Eveleigh Workshops
Early this morning a fire broke out in the boilermaking division of the railway workshops at Eveleigh owing to the fusing of one the electric wires. The flames…
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Woman's Clothes on Fire
A married woman named Elizabeth Collet, who resided at Redfern, while standing before a fire, managed to get her clothes alight. She rushed out into the…
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A disastrous tire, attended, by the loss of several lives, occurred at Accrington. in Lancashire, on Saturday. The fusing of an electric light wire set fire to the window…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoners in Revolt. Fight with Guards. Succumb to a Fire Hose. London, July 31
The prison at Fuente Santa, in Portugal, has been the scene of a furious encounter between escaping prisoners and the Civil Guard…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Fire in Sussex Street Two Employes Injured. Sydney
A fire broke out this morning in the building in Sussex-street occupied by D. Mitchell and Co., wholesale grocers, due to a quantity of turpentine and resin stored…
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A fire broke our at Goomal Station this morning and destroyed the main shearers' [?] which was valued at £200 The men in occupation were not able to save…
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Two schoolboys this morning sprinkled a quantity of tar upon one of the windows of a detached class-room at St Peter's public school. They then set the tar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in a Hardware Warehouse
A fire occurred in the premises of Messrs Lyons and Milling, hardware merchants, Clarence street, early this morning, which took two hours of hard fighting to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chemical Works Blown Up Sulphuric Acid on Fire. Air Filled with Asphyxiating Gases. London
An extrardinary catastrophe is reported from Elrubite, in Portugal, where large chemical works have been established. A boiler containing sulphuric acid blew…
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A fire was caused last night on the tug Esher through the overheating of the vessel's smokestack. The superstructure was severely damaged and will have to be…
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Goindoux's Sawmill Bowraville was totally destroyed by fire this morning. It is believed that mill was uninsured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fire. Seven Lives Lost. London, August 5
A fatal fire occurred this morning at a lodging-house on Long Island, Now York. Seven persons lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Cablegrams. Forest FiRES in Idaho the Countryside in Flames. London
Disastrous forest fires are raging in the. north of Idaho, one of the new States of he American Union. They constitute a serio[?]s danger to the sed[?]red Set[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire in Brussels The Exhibition Demolished. Twenty-one Pavilions Destroyed Damage: £5,000,000. Vancouver
The damage by a fire at the Brussels International Exhibition is estimated at £5,000,000. The magnificent buildings were reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhibition Fire. Brussels Holocaust Conflagration Subdued with Melinite. Panic in the Grounds. During a Pyrotechnic Display, Bostock's Menagerie Escapes. the Wild Animals Shot. London
A most disastrous fire, at which the pecuniary loss has already attained immense proportions, is now raging at the huge International Exhibition which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ajax Ladder at a Fire. Brisbane
A fire occurred daring the luncheon hour to-day on the top floor of Federal Chambers in Queen-street. The flames spread rapidly and soon the safety of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cablegrams. Exhibition Fire Caused by an Electric Wire. London
Inquiries into the origin of the fire at the Brussels International Exhibition show that it arose from a short circuit on the electric wire leading to an illuminated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brussels Exhibition Fire Valuable Pictures Burned. London
The articles destroyed in the fire at the Brussels International Exhibition included a collection of antique furniture and ornaments from many private mansions,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. Fire at Balmain. Balmain
A Haze broke out tins morning in a large wooden building belonging to William Dalley, dairyman of Balmain. The building comprised a large wooden stable, harness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fighting Forest Fires. Infantrymen Detailed. London, August 13
Great forest fires are raging in Western Montana and Northern Idaho, and the aid of the military in checking thorn has been invoked…
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