Destructive Fire
ABOUT dusk last Thursday evening a chimney on the premises of Mr John Lonergan, formerly licensed as the Farrier's arms, was observed to be on fire. The fire was subdued…
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Fires & bushfires, 1871
8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
The Late Fire in Macquoid-street. the Inquest
ANDREW MORTON, Esq., J.P., district coroner, began an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Queanbeyan, on Monday, the 13th instant, as to the origin of a fire,…
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LAST Thursday. Andrew Morton, Esq., J.P., coroner for the district of Queanbeyan, held an inquiry as to the origin of a fire by which a quantity of goods the property of Pemberton C. Palmer, Esq.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire at Chicago. Nearly the Entire City in Flames. Fifty to One Hundred Lives Lost
CHICAGO, October 8. 12.30 a.m.—The most terrible conflagration which has ever occurred in this city broke out about an hour and a half ago, having already swept…
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Union Stock Yards, October 10.—The village of Casello, Ind., on the line of the Fort Wayne railway, about thirty miles from Chicago, took fire from the raging in…
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CHICAGO, October 10th.—The following eloquent and truthful description has been furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work throughout:—None but an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of the Fire in London. London, October 10th
The excitement with regard to the Chicago fire increase intensely, as the full extent of the calamity becomes known. Subscriptions will be opened for the relief of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →European Extracts. the Chicago Fire
THE great fire at Chicago began in a stable on Sunday night, October 8. A boy took a kerosene lamp into the stable in order to milk a cow. The animal…
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