A Terrible Fire
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.--6.20 a.m. a fire broke out in the fourth story of the Eighth avenue railroad stables, on the Forty-ninth-street side, in about the middle of the building. The stables cover nearly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1880
10 stories in New England's papers
Terrible Fire in San Francisco
ANOTHER of those horrors which thrill the city to its very centre occurred this morning, in the burning of a Chinese washhouse and 10 or 12 of its Chinese inmates. The houses where…
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A CONFLAGRATION broke out on 21st April, in Hull, situated on the bank of the river, opposite to Ottawa. Eight hundred houses, forming half of the town, were destroyed, rendering…
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A telegram in the New York Herald dated May 14th states that the most disastrous fire that has ever visited this section of Pennsylvania occurred at Milton, Pa., to-day, by which 250 families are…
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A FEW days ago (says Home News, May 7th) some city arabs who, with that pertinacity which is the distinguishing feature of the London gamin, perched themselves in picturesque raggedness upon…
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NEXT to calamities like that the homesteader's wife told of, the great besetting fear of the settlers on the border--in all the new and thinly peopled portions of Kansas, in fact--is the…
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"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 attending the recent destruction of the…
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AMERICAN papers to hand give details of the destructive fires which raged for over ten days in the oil district of Bradford, Pennsylvania. It appears that they swept over an area of…
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ONE of the largest fires ever known in Sydney broke out about ten minutes after 12 o'clock this morning, at the Railway Station, Sydney. The damage has been…
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A FIRE attended with most lamentable consequences (the Brisbane Courier' states) broke out on the premises of Mr. A. Groom, bookseller and stationer,…
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