Canadian Besid Fires Extinguished. London
Heavy rains have extinguished the Canadian bush fires…
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Fires & bushfires, 1908
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Fire at Uskub Destroys Half the Town. London
A fire at Uskub, Turkey, destroyed half the town. The damage is estimated at £300,000 sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Racial Troubles. Racial War in Illinois. Whites Attack Negroes. Troops Fire on Crowd. London
Hearing of an assault, on a sleeping woman at Springfield. Illinois, the whites invaded the negro quarter and clubbed the negroses with sticks and revolvers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New and Useful Fire Detector
A new fire detector of unusual kind is a fine copper wire encased in fusible metal, which, in turn, is covered with insulating material and enclosed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forest Fires in America. London
Big forest fires are sweeping along the Vose[?]ite Valley, in the Si[?]rra Nevada Mountains, and threaten to destroy the giant redwoods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forest Fires in America
A telegram from London on Friday says that forest fires are sweeping along the Yosemite Valley, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Constantinople. 5000 Building Destroyed. Seven Thousand Homeless. London
A fire broke out in the Stamboul quarter of Constantinople and had not been extinguished up to the time of the latest reports. It was then stated that 1500…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on a Wharf. Sydney
A fire was discovered at Purbury's wharf this afternoon, but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Wellington
A fire occurred in Lovy's-building wellington, late on Saturday night. The fire in supposed to have originated in a room at the rear of a hairdressing saloon kept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canadian Fires
Disastrous as was the recent fire at the Canadian town of Three Rivers, which is said to have destroyed 300 buildings and to have done £400,000 worth of damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade
The Fire Brigade had a trial on the new ground near the the Methodist Church the other night, and got two good streams of water. There are two hydrants, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Stamboul Fire. London
The impression is gaining ground that the fire at Stamboul was the work of reactionary incendiaries…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Mine Fire. Miners Lucky Escape. London
A fire at the Hapton Valley Colliery, Burnley destroyed the pithead, entombing 15 miners, who, however, e[?]caped safely by the air roads to the surface, after two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Mine on Fire. Heavy Loss of Life. London
A fire has occured at the Hailey Valley Coalmine, Oklahoma, and it is believed that 30 miners have been suffocated. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Factory Fire. Two Workmen Injured. a Leap for Life. Adelaide
A four storey wicker factory was burnt out this morning half an hour after the men had started to work. The flames originated from a was jet…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another' Coal, Mine Fire. London
The fire in the main shaft of the Shawfield mine, Lanarkshire, Scotland, demolished the pithead framework and buildings. Eighty miners, who were below at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Cane Fire. Heavy Losses. Brisbane
A serious cane fire broke out at Windermere, near Bundaberg, on Thursday, resulting in the total destruction of a considerable tonnage of unfrosted cane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in New Zealand. Two Lives Lost. Wellington
A fire has occurred at Ashburton, in the Canterbury district in premises occupied by Mr. Zouch, a dentist. Zouch, two assistants, and a servant girl escaped, but Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Set on Fire in Sydney
LATE on Friday afternoon some would-be jocular porson set a lighted match to a boy of 13 who had wrapped himself in paper flags and decorations, with the result that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wine Bodegas on Fire. Two Persons Killed. London
At a fire at Gonzalez in some of the associated sherry bodegas of Jerez De la Frontera in Spain. butts containing 25,000 dozen bottles of sherry were…
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