Terrible Fire. 150 Lives Lost in One Hour. Panic-stricken Factory Girls. Leap From Ten-storey Building. Dreadful Scenes. New York
Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1911 · page 2
A fire, which resulted in fearful loss of life, broke out yesterday in a triangle of premises in Washington, in a 10-storey place used as a factory by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cross Roads. Bush Fire Brigade Meeting
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 5
A Bush Fire brigade meeting, was held at the hotel Cross Roads, on Saturday night to complete the business of the year. The Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 3
A conflagration causing the death of 150 persons, mostly girls, Occurred at a clothing factory in New York. A terrible scene was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Alarm Handcuffs
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 3
For a person to be handcuffed every time an alarm of fire is sent in over the wires from a street box and for the person to receive it in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at North Wagga
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 2
A fire occurred at North Wagga yesterday morning, when a weatherboard cottage, the property of Mr. Hubert M'Hudson, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Metals That Give Off Fire
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 3
The famous inventor of the Welsbach gas mantle discovered that the metals of rare earths, of which incandescent mantles are composed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 2
A meeting of the committee of the above was held in the Lake Hall on Monday evening last, when there was a good attendance of members. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 4
The State Capital at Albany (United States) was partially destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at two million pounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unsafe Buildings. Inadequate Fire Escapes. Owners Arrested. New York
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 2
As the result of activities following the New York holocaust the city building inspector has ordered the arrest of twelve owners of buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Fire. DAMAGE £2,000,000. Priceless Documents Lost. New York
Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 2
The State capitol at Albany was partly destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £2,000,000. Priceless documents were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capitol Fire. Albany (U.s.a.)
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 4
There is no trace of Abbott, the night watchman of the State Legislative Buildings. It is feared he perished in the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Fire Appliance
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1911 · page 3
One of the latest fire appliances is the water tower, an ingenious device for throwing water on a burning building from a high altitude…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peculiar Railway Accident. Engine Fires Flooded. Breakdown Near Junee. Junee
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 2
A mild sensation was caused on the south-western passenger train this evening about two miles from Junee. Suddenly, near the racecourse, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Victims. 75,000 People in Funeral Procession. New York
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4
The funeral rites of the 150 victims of the fire at the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory were celebrated to-day. Over 75,000 factory hands joined in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Turks in Albania. Pacification by Fire and Sword. May Lead to Strained Relations. London
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4
The Vienna correspondent of the London "Times" says that, unless Turkey pacifies the insurgents otherwise than by fire and sword,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Humiliating Exposures. Fire Brigade Board's Extravagance. Commissioner's Report. Boots and Cloths at Public Expense. Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4
The report ot the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the administration of the Fire Brigades' Board was made public to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Mine. Many Men Entombed. Vancouver
Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 2
Between 50 and 60 men were entombed by a fire in a mine at Thoop, Pennsylvania. No hope of rescue is entertained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Fire Accident
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 2
Mary Woodbury, 22 years age, while washing clothes before a fire at home it Mangrove Creek, beyond the Hawkesbury River, this morning, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Japan
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 2
A fire broke out in the Yoshswara quarter of Tokio, and is still raging. A high wind and a shortage of water make the situation critical. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calamitous Fires. 5000 Houses Burnt. Tokio
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 2
A destructive fire occurred in the Toshiwara quarter of Tokio, 5000 houses being destroyed. Six thousand women are homeless, as a result of…
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