Fire on the R.M.S. Orient
A FIRE broke out on Friday evening at 8 o'clock on board the mail steamer Orient, which had just arrived at Melbourne from England. The boatswain first noticed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1895
42 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3
Great Fires in the Northern Districts
THE country between Kempsey and Port Macquarie is a shoot of flame from bushfires. Many farmers have been ruined during the fire. Warnton church caught…
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THE most destructive fire over experienced in the Wollongong district broke out at a quarter to seven o'clock on Sunday night in a shop in Crown-street, occupied by Mr…
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Sydney, Tuesday—The damage done a the Wollongong fire is estimated at £10,00 and the damage at Walgett £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Seaham Colliery
Sydney, Tuesday—The work of hes metically sealing the shafts at the burning Seaham colliery has been completed, and is expected that the fire may burn for eigh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Fire
During the extensive fire at the seed and grain warehouse at Black[?]iars many thousands of rats, forming a black mass, left burning building and crossed the Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire in Russia. August 29
The town of Zukhnoff, near Smolensk, Russia, has been destroyed by fire. Thousands of people are homeless in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires
During the last few days bush fires have caused a little trouble and anxiety in the neighbourhood of Queanbeyan; fortunately none of them assumed any dreadful…
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Sydney, Tuesday—Owing to the drought bush fires are causing intense alarm, houses, stock, in fact human lives, have been sacrificed. Navigation of the coast is dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade
The annual meeting of the Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade took place at the engine-shed on Monday night, the Rev. R. A. Steel (superintendent) presiding. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Cathedral on Fire
At the conclusion of Matins on Sunday the congregation at St. Saviour's Cathedral were alarmed at seeing large volumes of smoke penetrating the Cathedral from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Mine on Fire
London, Monday—The Osceola copper mine, America, is a-fire, and 30 miners are entombed…
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BUSH fires have done considerable damage on the Blue Mountains. On Monday the railway sleepers near Lawson caught fire. Station buildings, platforms, and fences…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Bush Fires. Narrow Escapes—heroism
Coming after the dry weather recently felt all over the colony, bush fires have been numerous and in some cases disastrous. The Hawkesbury district seems to have suffered the worst…
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THE disastrous bush fires which swept every quarter of the colony and laid bare arid earth, and the multiplicity of "fives" in many towns teach a lesson which should…
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Sydney, Friday—A fire at Coolgardie has destroyed 40 places of business. The loss is estimated at thousands of pounds…
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Sydney, Tuesday—Destructive bush fires have again broken out in the Cooma and Pambula districts…
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Sydney, Tuesday—A. destructive fire has occurred at Hastings, New Zealand, several shops being burned down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New York "Fire Bugs."
London, Monday—The New York incendiary gang admit that their profits this year amounted to £40,000. Their plan was to insure buildings and then set Eire to them. The principal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Terrible Fire at a School. November 13
A school at Grenade, in Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. Thirty One of the scholars were burnt to death, and many others are missing…
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