Fire in King-street
The headquarters station of the Newcastle Fire Brigade received a call shortly before one o'clock this morning to 62 King-street, the residence of Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1915
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Fires on Steamers. Pro-german Outrages. New York
A fire broke out in the coal bunkers of the French liner Rochambeau, 12,678 tons, belonging to the Compagnie Generale Transatiantique, of Havre, while she was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Pennsylvania. Washington
Fire destroyed a section of a steel factory at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, engaged in making munitions for the Allies. Pre-Germans are suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brave Germans. Fire on Lifeboats Rome
The Ancona was passing Cape Carbonara when one of the monster submarines delivered to Austria from Krupp's Kiel works, in 1915, suddenly sighted the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The German Story. Forced to Fire. Amsterdam
A Berlin semi-official announcement states that reliable news has been received that the Ancona tried to escape the submarine, which was obliged to use…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heat Wave at Newcastle Over 102 in the Shade. Damage by Fires
Yesterday will long be remembered in the Newcastle district, from the severity of the heat, which was intensified by innumerable bush fires, that raged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cardiff. Damage by Bush Fires
The bush fires on Sunday were the most destructive which have occurred around cardiff for many years. At noon the new coal box at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bush Fires. Damage at Collieries
Some of the collieries in the Newcastle district suffered serious damage from the bush fires that raged over an area, estimated at ten miles square, to the west and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Around Toronto. Big Bush Fires
The excessive heat, and the parched condition of all vegetation, caused by months of dry weather, kept the residents of Toronto, especially those on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Indian Monarch on Fire. Captain and Crew Land. London
The Indian Monarch, for New York from Auckland, was abandoned, on fire, on the 9th instant, 420 miles south of Saint Helena…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Paris. at the Bon Marche. Paris
A great fire is raging in an annexe of the Bon Marche store. Ninety wounded soldiers had been accommodated in a temporary hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Paris Fire. Great Damage Done. Paris
The fire in the annexe of the Bon Marche Store completely destroyed the building. The damage to the stock is computed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grass and Scrub Fires
The Newcastle district fire brigaded has several calls yesterday, the outbreak in each instance being in grass or scrub. A few minutes after 12 noon the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The West Front. German Attack. Stopped by Artillery Fire. Paris
The latest official communique says: The enemy directed three successive clouds of ashyxiating gas against our forces in the Bethincourt sector…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Sydney. Hotel Australia Alight. Much Damage by Fire and Water. Sydney
A disastrous fire occurred at the Hotel Australia, in Castlereagh-street, between King and Moore streets, to-day. The upper portion of the fine seven-storied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Quebec Citadel. Outbreak of Fire. Quebec
A fire of which the [?] is unknown, broke out in the historic citadel, and threatened to destroy the building. Large quantlies of war supplies are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on a Steamer. Incendiarism Suspected. Halifax (N.s.)
The British steamer Cariton, 5262 tons, belonging to the Carlton S.S. Company, Limited, of Newcastle, and bound for England, has arrived here on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Virginia. Another German Outrage Richmond
A fire has practically destroyed the town Hopewell, which was built by the Dupont Powder Factory Company for the purpose of accomodating the workers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire. German Work New York
The British steamer Tyninghame has returned to port on fire. Chemicals caused an explosion in a cargo of sugar consigned to Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Cargo Steamer. Rescued Under Fire Paris
The latest communique states that a British cargo steamer ran ashore on the Belgian coast. German seaplanes tried to sink her with bombs, but the Allies'…
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