Disastrous Fire. No Water Supply. Melbourne
A disastrous fire occurred at Morwell. The town was gutted. There was no water supply. The damage runs into thousands of pounds…
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Disastrous Fires. COPLAND & Co's in Flames. Hardware Department Gutted
At about 15 minutes to 5 o'clock yesterday morning the hardware department of Copland and Co'c stores was discovered to be on fire. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Katoomba
A boarding house containing 12 rooms, occupied by Mrs. Whitelaw, and known as Rushworth, Lurline-street, Katoomba, was destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Katoomba. Boarding House Burnt. Sydney
Another disastrous fire occurred at Katoomba this morning, a large boarding house being totally destroyed. The damage is estimated at £9000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lawless Women. Suffragettes Again Rampant. Cut Communications and Fire Pillar-boxes. London
Suffragettes at Edinburgh cut the telephones wires communicating with two railway stations. Other suffragettes, at Liverpool, set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Fire DAMAGE £7500. SYDNEY
A serious lire occurred this morning in the premises of Ayres Baker and Co., warehousemen. Clarence-street. When the brigades arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fire. Large Warehouse Damaged. SYDNEY
A serious fire occurred this morning on the premises of Ayers, Baker and Company, warehousemen, Clarencestreet. The fifth and top…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peter the Great's Palace. Destroyed by Fire. Damage £200,000. Historic Relics Lost. St. Petersburg
A fire starting in timber yards at Petrovaki Island spread and completely destroyed the Palace of Peter the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in New Zealand. DAMAGE £70,000
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—A fire occurred this morning at Whitcomb and Tomb's printing and stationery establishment. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Blaze at Brungle. Accused Committed for Trial
At the local police court on Thursday, before Police Magistrate Shaw, two young Brungle residents, Arthur John French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Disaster. Explosion of Fire Damp. Many Lives Lost. Berlin
An explosion of fire damp at Bochum, Westphalia resulted in many miners being entombed and the colliery fired. Twenty five bodies were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warships Shaken. Fatalities on Shore. Caused by Fire. Constantinople
The Turkish warships anchored in the Dardanelles felt the earthquake shock. Officers and men imagined at first that the shock originated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Earthquake. Near Constantinople. Explosion and Fire. 300 Houses Destroyed. London
Seismographs in England early yesterday recorded a great earthquake in Eastern Europe, displacing the needle no less than nine inches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Blaze at Bruncle. Accused Committed for Trial
At the Gundagai police court on Thursday, before Police Magistrate shaw, two young Brungle residents, Arthur John French and Charles Ellis Anderson, were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Cargo. Estimated Damage £3000. SYDNEY
A disastrous fire occurred at Greswell's general store, at Cargo, last night. The damage is estimated at £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire in Sydney Anderson's Hat Factory Destroyed. Sydney
A disastrous fire occurred at Surry Hills this morning early. Anderson's hat factory was totally destroyed, although the firemen were speedily on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poking Fires for a Living
The trades of London are many, and some of them may seem to you to be very strange. One occupation by which a score of Britons are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Fire at Hanly. Watkins' Store Gutted. Heavy Loss by a Jeweller. Damage Estimated at Some Thousands. Henty
A fire of a most destructive character is reported to have occurred at Henty early this morning. The discovery was made by Mr. George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell in the Fire. Woman's Awful Death. Adelong
A woman named Mrs. Manton, who is supposed to have fallen in a fit in the fire when alone at her home yesterday, was frightfully burned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at General Post Office London Almost Isolated. London
The fusing of a wire in a test box at the General Post office, paralysed thousands of other offices. The loses of power interrupted communications to…
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