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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
19 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
ON Sunday morning, 18th January, a fire was discovered in No. 3 pit, Four-mile Creek, under circumstances that were considered suspicious by the proprietors (T W. Pearse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of this case before Mr. Justice Cheeke and a jury of four, was resumed and concluded. It was an action upon a policy of fire insurance upon certain printing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was on February 13th, 1874, a conflagration of unusual magnitude in London, which taxed to the utmost all the resources of the London Fire Brigade. Shortly after four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE agricultural look-out is spreading in England. A meeting to sympathise with the labourers was held in Exeler Hall. London, April 25…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The other night Mr. and Mrs. Evans, of Brookstown, retired to rest cleaving afire burning in the fireplace, and damped down, as usual, with small coal. The chimney is a wooden one, and about midnight Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday afternoon April 22, a serious fire occurred in the engineering premises of Messrs. W & A. M'Oney, situated in Scotland Street, Tradeston, Glasgow. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A tremendous conflagration has occurred at Chicago (United States). Owing to the strong wind which prevailed, the flames were for a time uncontrollable, and it was not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday morning last, about one o'clock, the inhabitants at Belfast were alarmed by the cry of "fire," which proved to be in the vicinity of Soutbcombe's timber-yard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire occured at St. James's Church (Church of England), Morpeth, on Tuesday, aboutnoon, which might have been the means of the whole edifice being destroyed; but, owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT half-past three o'clock on Thursday morning last the inhabitants of Newcastle were abruptly aroused from their slumber by the dread cry of "fire!" which sounded most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dunedin, August 23.—A fire broke out luring the night at the steam saw-mills and timber-yard of Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach, Princes-street. The premises are of a very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chicago, July 14.—A great fire is raging in South Chicago, in the vicinity of Michiganavenue and Tewlth-street. Half a mile of buildings are in flames, and all efforts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry into the cause of the late fire in Bolton-street, was held before F. J. Shaw, Esq., District Coroner, at the Ship Fun, Hunter-street, on Monday evening last. The following were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Haven, August 6, 1874.—The Fire Department of this city has repeatedly been culled out recently by incendiary fires, which have become alarmingly frequent. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The most destructive and dangerous fire that ever perhaps occurred in Goulburn took place on Saturday morning last. It was just about 10 o'clock that the fire-bell at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A most lamentable accident, according to the Eureka Journal, a Californian paper, befel a cross-county waggon not long ago, containing a man named Friend, and his wife, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great excitement was caused in the city, yesterday evening, between 9 and 10 o'clock by the almost sudden appearance in the sky, of an extensive reflection of light, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most horrible attempts at suicide that has occurred for a long time past, occurred in this city, and resulted in the death of the victim. A young woman named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About a quarter, to 2 o'clock on Wednesday, a most disastrous fire broke out at Windsor. The flames, being fanned by a furious westerly wind, spread rapidly from house to house…
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