Fatal Fire
A fatal fire occurred at Broken Hill last night. A four-roomed wooden cottage was reduced to ashes, and with it two children, Laura Dawey,…
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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
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A fatal fire occurred at Broken Hill last night. A four-roomed wooden cottage was reduced to ashes, and with it two children, Laura Dawey,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS of a terrible fire at Niugpo, China, resulting in the deaths of between two and three hundred women and children was received…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Some months ago I wrote to you concerning the formation of a fire brigade in the town. I find the matter has since been taken up in the Council by Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN O'NEILL and Adam Mutch, who were convicted yesterday of incendiarism in connection with the recent fire at the Tarragon Hotel, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THREE years ago I was staying with a friend in Nothern Queensland. The weather was exceedingly hot at the time, and bush fires were numerous, which led my host to relate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MANY of the mysteries of 'spontaneous combustion' are being cleared up by [?] advance of science. There was a time were the fact that a heap of coal can that fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out a little after six p.m. yesterday in the Works Department. It originated in the attic floor, the photographic room. It was only the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING, called by the Mayor in response to a requisition, was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday evening a meeting of those interested in the formation of a Fire Brigade was held at the Town Hall. The chair was occupied by Mr. James Heane, J. P., it having been stated that the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE adjourned meeting to consider the desirableness of forming a fire brigade in Dubbo, was held on Thursday evening last in the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FURIHER dispatches from America give fuller details of the appalling forest tires that have devastated the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest has concluded on Lawler's fire, end an open rerdict has been returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE coach-house and stables at the residence of Duncan MeMaster, station owner, at Darling Point, were destroyed by fire this morning. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN exciting scene was witnessed at Galveston, Texas, early on the morning of August 21, when a married Woman named Mrs. Elliott saved the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire occurred at the Royal Exchange in London to-day. Before the flames were extinguished Lloyd's offices were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a very early hair this morning a fire occurred at the Bourke Meat Works, which destroyed the whole of the cattle-killing promises, besides…
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