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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 15
The upper part of the Hotel Planit, at Argentieres, near Chamonix, caught fire, when all the village, including about fifty English visitors at the hotel, and firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While leaving the Thames, bound for Philadelphia with creosote, the steamer Northpoint suddenly burst into flames in every part…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Wynerie, bound from Rangoon to Chill with a cargo of gunny bags and rice, arrived at Newcastle yesterday for bunker coal. The voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. G. H. Pitt, president of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Mr. G. H. Pope and Alderman Cracknell, members, arrived in Newcastle last night, accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fire at the Custom-house in Buenos Ayres in Argentina, did damage to the extent of £500,000. The repeated dock fires here are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before four o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the "Chanticleer" flour mills at Pyrmont, and was not got under control until the building was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six firemen are dead, two dying and many others injured at Milwaukee, in the United States, owing to the roof of a burning building falling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A steamer off the Californian coast called up San Francisco by wireless, and reported being on fire. Steamers have been sent to her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Board of Fire Commissioners, Mr. G. H. Pitt (president), and Mr. C. H. Pope, and Alderman Cracknell, accompained by Chief-office Webb and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire took place at Little in a cinematograph theatre after the performance. A family of five living on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire, which resulted in fearful loss of life, broke out yesterday in a triangle of premises in Washington Place, used as a factory by the Shirt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire in the remaining Customs warehouse, the others having been burned, has been suppressed. There is evidence, however, that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was issued about the middle of February, in the form of a Blue-book, the report on the explosion and underground [?]re which occurred at the Wellington Pit,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Attorney and the Chief of the Fire Brigade both declare that the City Building Department is responsible for the loss of 142 lives by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The labour unions, following, upon the recent terrible fire in the city, are planning a mighty demonstration of protest against the firetrap conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The major portion of a large house in Oxide-street, owned by Mr. J. P. Megaw, of Adelaide, and occupied by Mr. R. M. M'Connell, was destroyed by fire early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the terrible fire at a shirt waist factory in New York, in which some 159 lives were lost, it is stated that the doors to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The timber yards at Yaroslav are on fire. Twenty-four houses have also been destroyed. The damage is estimated at £70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred yesterday in Newark, New Jersey, at a building in which were 50 children. The children had been instructed in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I desire to reply to Alderman Pitts' statement us to the Newcastle fire brigades. Any person with the ability to be alderman for the second city of New…
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