Fire on a Gunboat
A fire occurred in the sail-room of the American gun-boat Petrel at Cavite, in the Phillipines. Lieut. Commander Roper went to the rescue and was suffocated…
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Fires & bushfires, 1901
96 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5
Fatal-Fire at Nowra
THE Prince of Wales Hotel at Nowra was destroyed by fire at an early hour on Thursday morning. The building was an immense wooden structure, which had been…
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The Prince of Wales Hotel at Nowra was destroyed by fire at an early hour on Thursday morning. The building was an immense wooden structure, which has been…
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The Prince of Wales Hotel, Nowra, one of the best-known hostelries od the coast, and which from the manner of its construction has been a menace to the safety of the town for years past, was totally…
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Shortly after ten o'clock on Thursday night a fire was discovered in a loft over the stables at the rear of Messrs Charles Rogers and Co's premises (Goulburn). The fire…
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The inquiry into the recent fatal fire at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Nowra, concluded on Monday evening. The jury found that W. H. Wilford and Benjamin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire Brigade Yarn
One of the most amusing incident’s imaginable happened lately to an old gentleman in one of our large towns. He was asked to [?] a ticket for a fireman’s ball, and complied,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Fire Engine Station
Two Americans in London inspected a certain fire engine station. One of them remarked to the chief engineer. “Do you know, in New York we use a [?] not…
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On Wednesday morning about 4 o’clock the bell of St Bede’s Church boomed out loudly, a wakening a number of townspeople from their [?] The morning was…
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Just before 10 o'clock on Tuesday night the Fire Brigade bell (the rope did not break this time) rang out the alarm of fire, and the member of the Brigade were speedily at the station and had the big…
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It is related of President [?] during one of his [?] about from place to place [?] reporter for a paper of opposition…
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At about 7.35 on Wednesday night (says the Bombala Times) the cry of "Fire" was heard on all sides, and a big blaze near the Courthouse soon showed it location to be…
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A BIG fire occurred at Auckland on Thursday night, the Grand Hotel, one of the finest buildings in the city being destroyed. The flames spread…
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The recent catastophe at Baku, whereby four of the richest naptha springs in the vicinity have been en fire and 500 lives lost, will probably have to be claseefied among…
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In the days of which I write, spices was the question uppermost in the mind of every Frencbmas—a question often summmarily salved by a verdict adysies to the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire in Sydney. Anthony Hordern’s Destroyed
Considerable sensation was caused in Braidwood on Wednesday morning when it was learned that the well-known premises of Anthony Hordern and Sons’,…
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QUITE a sensation was caused in Queanbeyan on Wednesday morning when it became known that the well-known promises of Anthony Hordern and Sons',…
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The fire at Hordern's is still raging. The whole of the immense block of buildings bounded by the four streets, with their contents, have been consumed, the…
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On Wednesday morning the wildest excitement prevailed in Sydney when it became known that the magnificent block of buildings at the Haymarket belonging to Messrs. Anthony Hordern and…
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After the failure of the dynamite to remove the George-street will of Hordern's buildings, it was hauled down by steam tram motors and a haweer Superintendent Webb directed the operations, and…
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