Interesting Items. Workman Crawls Through Fire
Peter Peach a workman at the blast furnace, Lithgow was one day last weak engaged cleaning out one of the stoves. The opening through…
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Fires & bushfires, 1912
125 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 7
Fire at Bellingen
Sydney, Monday.—A fire broke out in the centre of Bellingen early on Saturday morning,and three buildings were destroyed. There is no water supply and no fire brigade,…
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Somewhere about the hour of three o'clock on Wednesday morning last a fire broke out in a building used as an overseer's cottage at Westholme,…
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ON leaving the precincts of the local temple of Justice on Friday, morning, after the court work had been transacted, the pressmen noticed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday —The bush fires in the Bellinger and Dorngo districts are now sub siding. Farmers' homes have been burnt out and miles of grass destroyed…
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Fire tricks were practised in very ancient times. The first known firebreather was a Syrian slave named Ennus, a leader in the servile war in…
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A disastrous fire has occurred at Crookwell. Three business premises were totally destroyed. There is no fire brigade in the town…
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The Irish express was pulled up at Colwyn Bay owing to one of the carriages being on fire. The apartment contained a party of school-boys who…
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SYDNEY, Monday Afternoon.—A fire occurred in the underground workings at Pelaw-Main Colliery, Kurri Kurri, this morning. The manager attributes the fire…
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News from Coramba and Dorrigo supplies startling evidence of the severity and extent of the bush fires in those localities during the past week…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cablegrams in Brief. Disastrous Fire in France
The Chamber of Commerce and some warehouses at Calais have been destroyed by fire. The damage exceeds 500,000 francs (about £25,000)…
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We have been asked to publish for general information a by-law regulating the lighting of fires, made under the provisions, of the Fire Brigades…
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Late on Thursday night the timber mills of Messrs. Barry, Hodgson and Co., at Port Adelaide, were destroyed by fire. Within an hour of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Fire in Timberyard
Hardy's timberyard, Pyrmont, was partly destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The whole of the buildings, which have a frontage of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Fire In A, Tasmanian Mine. Ninety-Three Men Entombed. Heroic Work by Rescue Parties. Men Beaten Back by Poisonous Gases. Mines Inspector Has a Miraculous Escape. One Dead Body Recovered. "For Cod's Sake Give Us. Some Air!" Newspaper [?] Besieged. Sydney, Monday. 7.45 a.m
A disastrous fire has broken out at the Mount Lyell Mine, Tasmania. Ninety three men were entomed and their fate is unknown…
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A mine disaster occurred at the North Lyell Mine, Zeehan (Tas.), shortly before noon on Saturday. A fire broke out at the 700ft. level,…
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The conflagration now general— Montenegro, Servia, Bulgaria and Greece have all formally declared war on Turkey…
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The clanging of the bell on Tuesday night caused great excitement in town for the time being. Long before the alarm had been heard, the fire…
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A large block of b[?]dings in the main street of Pittsworth was burnt to the [?] The premises ware saved through the efforts of the…
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LONDON, Wednesday Night,—An asylum for old men at Quimper, France, has been destroyed by fire, and five of the inmates were burned to death…
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