Asylum on Fire. Wichita (Kansas)
The main buildings of the State Asylum for the feebleminded, have been gutted by fire Some of the patients escaped but it is believed that…
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£2,000,000 Damage. Great Fire in Constantinople. Constantinople
The fire stated at several points in the city and spread over two square miles. A thousand house were destroyed and the damage is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fires. Constantinople Conflagration Still in Progress. Constantinople
The great fire at Constantinople is still raging. British and other bluejackets are assisting to fight the flames. Fifty thousand people are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hindu's Mad Act. Fires at Random Into Crowd. Mobbed by 500 People. Chicago
Husian, a Hindu, ran amok while standing in front of an opera house. With a rifle he fired five shots into the stream of people passing out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Zealand Floods. Town Under Six Feet of Water. Train Service Stopped. Fire English Put Out of Working Order. Auckland
The flood waters at Blenheim, New Zealand, subsided after attaining a depth of 6 feet in the upper parts of the town. Dalgety's building were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cholera in Turkey. Another Fire Threat [?] CONSTANTINOPLE. Fri
The outbreak of Cholera is in [?] There have been 19 deaths doing the last two days. Bills have been posted the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forest Fires. San Francisco
Forest fires are raging in the San Bernardino mountains. Several pleasure resorts have been wiped out. Four hundred men failed to cope with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Act of Revenge. a Terrible Fire. £50,000 Damage. Vienna
Schottek, a clerk, dismissed for drunkenness, in revenge fired the timber in the northern railway station. Six hundred firemen, 3000 police, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Asylum Eight Inmates Lose Their Lives. Hamilton (Ontario)
Eight lives were lost and many injured in fire which destroyed the main building of the Insane Asylum yesterday. There were 800 patients…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scene of Desolation. the Stamboul Fire. £5,000,000 Damage. Constantinople
During the recent fires in Constantinople many persons were burnt and boiled to neath. The damage by fires is estimated £5,000,000. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hotel Burnt Out. Fireworks Cause £125,000 Damage. Berlin
Spontaneous combustion among fireworks stored in a mudbath at Pyrmont, Prussia, caused the destruction of the Royal Ku[?] Hotel. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire in London. Men Overcome by Fumes. London
A destructive fire broke out this morning in the premises of the Union Cold Storage Company Limited, Upper Thames-street, E. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire Several Shops Demolished. Sydney-
A disastrous fire occurred at Bangalow on the north coast, to-day, resulting in the destruction of four busines premises and a bank, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Sydney. SYDNEY
A fire, threatening serious results, broke out in a warehouse in Clarencestreet last night, but the calmness of the night and the brigade's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cables. A[?]naptha Fire. St. Petersburg
A naptha spout at Baku was fired and five workmen perished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calamitous Fire. OVER 200 Houses Destroyed. Farms Suffer Severely. 300 Persons Homeless. London
A disastrous fire occurred at the village of Runtapora, Hungary. Desperate efforts were made to extinguish the flames but they spread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Collier
The steamer collier Wallarah, while loading coal at Catherine Hill Bay for Sydney, caught fire during the night in the officers' quarters, and is still…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Theatre Fire in Shakspeare's Time
The burning of the Globe Theatre, in which Shakspeare had a share, and on the stage of which he was constantly seen, is the subject of an interesting and valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warehouse Burnt Out. Antwerp
A warehouse filled with cotton, salt-[?] and wool was to-day burned to the ground. The damage is estimated at £160,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anarchism in India. Dastardly Outrage. Floating Fires at Calcutta. Calcutta
Eight barges of burning straw have been sent floating down the river Hooghly during the last 24 hours, and have caused great alarm…
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