The Oil Steamer Fire. Several More Victims. Bombay
In addition to the six persons who were reported as having been killed in consequence of the fire on board the off steamer at Tuticorin, several others…
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Fires & bushfires, 1913
241 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 13
District News. Greta. Recent Fatal Fire
An inquest was held at the Greta Courthouse on Saturday by Mr. G. Brown, J.P., District Coroner, into the death of John Orr Russell, whose remains were found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Sydney. Business Places Damaged. Sydney
A fire broke out in Victor Murray's factory, Barlow-street, Haymarket, between eight and nine o'clock this morning. Before the flames were subdued,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer on Fire. a Race to Safety. Halifax (N.s.)
The steamer Muirfield Head arrived on fire, having steamed at top speed from mid-ocean. When the cargo of cotton in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire. Returns to Port. New York
The British ship Ulidia has returned to Savannah on fire. The outbreak was discovered when the vessel was forty miles off the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Sea. a Steamer Abandoned. Cape Race (Newfoundland), Sat
The Spanish steamer Balmes caught fire at sea, and her passengers were transferred to the s.s. Pannonia. According to a wireless message…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire. Safely Reaches Dock. Hamilton (Bermuda)
The Spanish steamer Balmes, which caught fire at sea, arrived here yesterday, under the convoy of the s.s. Pannonia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Big Fire at Maitland
What gave promise in its early stages of being one of the largest comflagrations that has ever taken place in Maitland broke out at an early ho[?] yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires at Sea. the Steamer Scotsdyke. All on Board Rescued. London
While off St. Catherine's Point, near the Isle of Wight, the steamer Scotsdyke, owned by Messrs. Ross, Allan, and Johnstone, caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at a Mine. Alarming Development. Wellington
An alarming development has taken place on the west coast. A few miners have been working at Brunner for the past few days, and to-day about 500…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on a Battleship. Serious Danger Averted. Gibraltar
The battleship Lord Nelson narrowly escaped destruction. An overturned candle ignited the oakum, and the fire spread to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Indian Trouble. Riots in Natal. Police Compelled to Fire. Durban
Albert West, acting editor of an Indian vernacular journal, has been arrested for harbouring indentured immigrants on a farm owned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire-fairies
Have you ever heard of fire-sprites? You have seen them often enough. Ages ago, when the coal was being made, there were lots of forests full of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →American Fire-fighting
Fire-fighting is very much the same all the world over, and consequently the report of Mr. Lee, chief officer of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Volturno Fire. Board of Trade Inquiry. London
An inquiry by the Board of Trade late the circumstances of the burning at sea of the steamer Volturno was opened yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Fire Stations. Statement by Commissioners
When the Fire Brigades Act of 1960 came into force throughout the State, and the Board of Fire Commissioners was constituted, the members of some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires at Sea. Risks and Precautions
The terrible disaster which befel the liner Volturn in mid-Atlantic recently has drawn attention to the risks of fire at sea, and the precautions…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Boston. Twenty-five Persons Killed. Boston
A fire destroyed a lodging-house at the south end of the city. Hundreds of men and women were saved by jumping ini life-nets.o…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Alexandria. Meagre Water Supply. Sydney
The greater portion of R. S. Lamb and Company's manure works at O'Riordan-street, Alexandria, woo destroyed by a fire that broke out there early this…
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The Newcastle district fire brigades received two calls yesterday. The first was at half-past one o'clock in the morning, when the Tighe's Hill…
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