Frozen Town on Fire. Alaskan Paradox. Vancouver, March 10
The town of Douglas, situated on Douglas Island, Alaska, is on fire. The weather in these regions is bitterly cold, the temperature being below zero. The…
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Fire
The Buenos Ayres Customs House has been burnt down. It was filled with Merchandise, and the damage is estimated at £250,000…
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A large fire occurred at Buenos Ayres yesterday, one of the Customs warehouses. which was filled with merchandise, being burned. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buenos Ayres Fire [?]500,000 Damage Done. Buenos Ayres
A message received on Wednesday stated that a Customs warehouse had been burnt, and damage estimated at [?]250,000 done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Fire. Milwaukee
A big fire occurred here on Friday. In endeavoring to subdue the flames several firemen ventured into the interior of the building. the roof of which suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. Motor Car on Fire. Melbourne
About half past three this morning Mr. George Matthews, of Mount Alexander road, Moonee Ponds, was driving through Flemington in his motor-car In Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Fire in Cinematograph Theatre Five Persons Perish. Paris
Another fire at the cinematograph theatre, attended with fatal results, has occurred in France. After the usual nightly performance at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Fire in a Sky Soraper. One Hundred and Fifty Persons Perish. Girls Jump to Death From the Eighth Floor? Heroic Work by the Lift Men. New York
A fire which resulted in fearful loss of life broke out yesterday in a triangle of premises in Washington used as a factory by the Shirt Waist Company. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buenos Ayres Fire the Work of Criminals. Buenos Ayres
The fire which broke out at the Customs warehouses last Wednesday, and which resulted in a loss of fully £500,000, has proved a difficult task to the firefighters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Family Escape in Night Attire Serious Loss by Fire. Melbourne, Monday
About 1 o'clock this morning a destructive fire broke out in a two storey wooden building situated in Ormond road. Moonee Ponds, and owned and occupied by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fire in New York One Hundred and Fifty Deaths. New York
Details with regard to the awful fire which broke out in Washington-place on Saturday show that the majority of the 150 persons who fell victims to the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire in a Chicken House
Gloomy night had spread its sable pinions over the red-tiled roofs of the Lilliputian hamlet. Silence brooded o'er the scene; a silence vast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News From America the New York Fire. New York
Both the New York City Attorney and the Chief of the Fire Brigade declare that the Building Department is responsible for the loss of 142 lives in the fire which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York Fire. New York
The Labor unions in New York are planning a mighty demonstration as a protest against the fire trap conditions which arose at the recent fire at a shirt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York Factory Fire
In regard to the recent New York factory fire, it transpires that the doors to the elevators and the stairways were locked when the fire started, being the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in a Flour Mill
Pyrmont was the scene of a destructive fire on Friday morning, when the flour mill of Messrs. Davey and Sons. Allen-Street, was extensively damaged. The fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Suicide by Fire. Groom Cremates Himself. London, March 26
A case of suicide of a very unusual character has occurred at Charlton, in Northumberland. A groom named James Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From America the New York Fire. New York
Further investigations into the causes of the calamitous fire which broke out in the Triangle Shirt Waist Works disclose the fact that the doors leading to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buengs Ayres Fire. Half a Million Damage. Buenos Ayres. March 23
The damage by the fire that destroyed the Customs warehouse full of merchandise was greatly under-estimated. Instead of a quarter of a million, it is considered…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Trapped by Fire. Awful Fate of Girls. Dozens Leap to Death. New York, March 26
There was an awful loss of life at a fire which broke out in the Triangle Shirt-waist Company's premises in Washington place yesterday. One hundred and fifty persons…
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