District News. Plattsburg. Alarm of Fire
Shortly before 7 o'clock yesterday morning the cry of "fire" was heard, and rash was immediately made to Mr. Alex. Frew's Great Northern Hotel, where the fire was seen to…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
208 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11
Fire at a Paris Theatre. Nearly a Tragedy
LONDON, Monday.—During the progress of the play "The Maid of Orleans" at the Theatre Francais, Paris, the faggots in the last scene ignited, and the stage was…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A terrible fire broke out to-day in the industrial schools at Westham, when twenty-four of the inmates perished…
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The fire which occurred at the residence of Mr. Amhurst, M.P., at Grosvenor Square, was due, it has been discovered, to contact of the electric lighting wire with the woodwork of…
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LONDON, Monday.—The s.s. Ionic, from London to Wellington, via Hobart, which was reported on the 21th inst to have caught fire in the docks, sailed for her destination on December 28. A…
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Commenting on the ore on board the barque Beltana, an Adelaide paper says:—"The misalvecture to the Beltana points in the most emphatic manner a moral as to the danger of shipping wool…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The King of Belgians' palace at Lacken is in ruins. Little has been saved…
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BROSSELS, Wednesday.—This afternoon a fire took place at the Royal Palace, Lasken. The Royal Palace was saved, but the Princess Clementine narrowly escaped with…
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A FIRE, disastrous in its consequences, broke out recently in a house at St. Ives, England, occupied by a seaman named Samuel Barber and his wife and five children, whose ages…
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LONDON, Friday.—The fire which took place at the Forest Gate Charity School, in London, on January 1, appears to have been attended with the grossest carelessness. It has…
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BRUSSELS, Friday.—It is suspected that the fire which destroyed the Royal Palace at Lacken was the work of incendiarism…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Fire at the Forest Gate School
LONDON, Friday.—The inquest was commenced yesterday on the 26 victims of the fire at the Boys Industrial School at Forestgate, Essex. The evidence showed that the…
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A narrow escape from a serious conflagration happened at the Brisbane Hotel at Launceston on Saturday. A spark from a chimney alighted on the shingles on the roof…
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ABOUT half-past eight o'clock on Sunday evening a fire broke out on the premises of Levy Brothers and Co., a five-storey building with a basement, and among the finest…
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SHORTLY before 9 o'clock last night a steamer boll rang out, and the sound being mistaken for that of a firebell the various fire stations sounded the alarm and turned…
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A fire in Morpeth is a very rare occurrence, and the inhabitants were startled from their slumbers at about a quarter to two yesterday morning by an alarm which soon…
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AN extensive fire broke out shortly after 8 o'clock on the morning of November 28 in the business portion of Boston, in a locality adjacent to the district in which the great fire…
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The British ship King Robert, 1657 tons, bound from Glasgow to San Francisco, was burned at sea, November 16, off Cape Horn. All hands were saved. It was the ship's first voyage, and the loss is about…
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ON Wednesday evening, about 8 p.m., the weatherboard residence of Mr. Thomas Llewellyn, of Thomas-street, Wallsend, had a very narrow escape of being destroyed by…
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On Saturday evening, at about 6 30, the fire bell broke up the peaceful Stocktonian tea tables and turned the inhabitants into the streets. The local fire brigade promptly…
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