An Express Train on Fire
THE Midland Scotch express, which runs between St. Pancras and Glasgow, met with a serious accident on the night of October 28, by which a passenger was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1883
8 stories in New England's papers
Great Fire in London
A FIRE broke out in the city of London on the morning of the 8th December which caused more damage than any fire which had occurred in London since that in Tooley-street 20 years ago. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Setting the Thames on Fire
A REMARKABLE instance of an error arising from similarity in sound is in the phrase, "setting the Thames on fire." The substitution of the name of a river…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Milwaukee Hotel Fire
THE United States papers give further details of the fire at the Newhall House Hotel, Milwaukee, on January 10. The fire started, apparently, on the third floor of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Japanese Horror of Fire
ONE of the practices peculiar to Japan, and one that naturally excites the curiosity of the stranger, is the singing of men at work upon the foundation and frame of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between Two Fires
A DESPATCH from Tombstone, A. T. says:-- John Lyons, a well-known citizen of this country, on Friday last, while at work in the shaft of a mine near Tres Alamos, had just put in four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Extinction of Fire by Steam
THE frequently proposed application of steam for the extinction of fire has recently met with a practical application in a steel manufactory in Berlin. The owner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Producing Fire by the Breath
IN a recent number of the Michigan MEDICAL NEWS, Dr. S. C. Woodman gives some remarkable particulars concerning a young man who seems to be a regular…
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