Great Fires in Russia
The Official Gazette of May 12 reports that another great fire broke out on Friday night at ten o'clook in the town of Irbit, in the government of…
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28 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 2
Fire Proof Zulus, and Their Opinion of Hades
An enterprising reporter of the Uitenbage 'Times' has interviewed a bloodthirsty Zulu, who told the following remarkable and amusing story:-Some years since a missionary…
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At half-past 2 o'clock this morning what proved to be the most disastrous fire which has over occured in Dunedin broke out in a block of buildings…
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A NEW fire-escape has been invented and patented by a coloured man from Virginia, living in New York. Some of the engineers of the fire department…
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THE results of the fire at Newman and Fielding's establishment, 123 Clarendon-street, Emerald-hill, on Friday evening, were more disasterous than was at first anticipated, and…
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A FEARFUL conflagration in Serajevo began on Friday morning, August 11, at six o'clock. The Servian, Jewish, and the whole of the commercial…
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ON Saturday night last informstion was received from our special correspondent at Grenfell that a great fire was then raging in George-street, the main street of that…
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ON Saturday evening last, about half-past nine, the dread cry of "Fire!" followed by the loud clanging of Laurence's fire-gong, notified to the inhabitants of Grenfell that…
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