The Late Fatal Fire at Urana
An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Urana, on the 30th ultime, by the District Coroner, Mr. Armtstrong, into the origin of the fire on the morning of the 28th ultimo,…
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13 stories in Riverina's papers
The Baptism of Fire
A CARTOON in London Punch shows Paris starved and dying, yet defiant and brave as ever. Shells are bursting around her, her children have fallen to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Village of Tioga. Nearly Destroyed by Fire. Elmira (N.Y.,) February 9th
A disastrous fire occurred at the village of Tioga, Penn., this morning which spread rapidly and raged with great fury until nearly the entire village was destroyed. About forty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Sandhurst. One Hundred Thousand Pounds Worth of Property Destroyed. (From the Bendigo Evening News, August 29.)
THE most destructive, if not the largest, fire ever yet seen on Sandhurst, occurred this morning, and speedily resulted [?]n the demolition of the Beehive-buildings in Pall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cow on Fire. (From the Newcastle Chronicle.)
WE have been placed in possession of the following few particulars as to a novel mode practised recently by a free-selector, not many miles from our city, with a view to…
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RECENT journals from Canada and the North-Eastern States give the particulars of most extensive and destructive conflagrations there, which have spread…
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The intelligence given by telegrams to the American journals respecting the above catastrophe shows that on October 8th, about 11 a.m., the fire started in the large pinning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Fires, Whole Town Destroyed, Prairie, Burning. 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 fire raging in the prairies. It was entirely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Description by an Eye-witness of the Fire Axd Its Ravacks. Chicago, October 10th
The following eloquent and truthful doscription has been furnished by a gentleman who participated in the work throughout None but an eye-witness can form an idea of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire in Chicago. (From the San Francisco Bulletin, Oct. 11.) Frightful Destruction of Life and Property. Chicago, October 10
ABOUT 10 o'clock on Sunday night, a small barn on Canalport Avenue, not far from Twelfth-street (west side), was discovered to be on fire. It was just such a little fire as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late and Exciting American News. Great Holocaust of Fire in Wisconsin. Hundreds Of People Perish in the Flames. Towns and Villages Swept Away. Fearful Loss of Life and Property
BY the ship St. John, from San Francisco, we have Californian papers to the 18th October. They contain most distressing accounts of the continued progress of the…
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THE Milwaukee Sentinel of the 14th October contains the following graphic account of the ravages of the great fire, taken from the Marinette and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Incident of the Chicago Fire
WHILE Madison-street west of Dearborn, and the wast side of Dearborn were all ashes, the spectators saw the lurid light appear in the rear windows…
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