Fire on a Honolulu-bound Steamer
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 8
A telegram from San Francisco, dated Norember 15, via London is published to the effect that a fire had occurred on the Hawaiian steamer Hawaii, which was lying at the Oceanic Dock ready to sail for Honolulu. The steamer had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sparks From Railway Locomotives. Grass Fires on the Southern Line. (By Telegraph.)
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 5
ALBURY, Tuesday.--Pastoralists whose holding abut on the Great Southern line between here and W[?]gga are much concerned owing to the frequency with which the grass becomes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Playing with Fire. a Little Girl Terribly Burned
The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 6
A LITTLE girl, 6 years at age, named Annie Whastlick met with a fearful accident this morning while playing with some companions at the rear of her father's residence,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Forestgate. The Victims Buried. LONDON, January 6
The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 5
The victims of the fire at Forestgate Industrial School, numbering 20, were buried to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 7
A fire broke out at Buxton's artistic stationery warehouse, a building six stories high, nearly opposite the Town Hall, shortly after 2 this morning. It originated on the ground floor, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Fire in Melbourne. Considerable Destruction of Property. a Plucky Rescue
Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 6
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Another disastrous fire this morning was discovered at a quarter-past 2 o'clock. At that hour a voice from the top storey of Mr. Briton's artistic stationery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Cable News. (Our Special Messages.) the Victims of the Forestgate Fire
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 5
LONDON, Monday Night.--The funeral took place to-day of the 26 boys who were suffocated during the fire at the industrial School at Forestgate, Essex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Theatre Destroyed by Fire. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 7
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 7
A large theatre in Brussels has been destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another Fire in Melbourne. Narrow Escape of a Caretaker £10,000 Damage. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne, Tuesday.--Shortly after 2
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 4
o'clock this morning a fire broke out in some lofty premises in Swanston-street occupied by Buxton and Co., arti[?] stationers, and Grouzell and Co., photographers, and before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires in the Albury District. Spreading on All Sides. (By Telegraph.)
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 5
ALBURY, Wednesday.-- The unusual prevalence of bush fires in this district is causing some anxiety among tho farming community. On Sunday a fire occurred on the Sydney-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Town in Flames. An American Blaze
The Australian Star · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 8
A GREAT fire broke out at noon on November 26, at Lynn, Massachusetts, which raged furiously for nearly eight hours, it being half-past. 7 in the evening before it finally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire at a Theatre
Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 4
LONDON, January 7,-Later intelligence from Brussels Shows that the theatre Which was destroyed by fire last night was only a small one, and, as previously telegraphed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Playing with Fire. a Little Girl Terribly Burned
The Australian Star · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 6
A LITTLE girl, 6 years of ago, named Annie Whastlick, met with a fearful accident this morning while playing with some conspirations at the rear of her father's residence,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Blaze in Boston. Three Blocks in Ashes. Business Houses Wrecked
The Australian Star · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 7
A DISPATCH from Boston, November 28, says : -- The most disastrous fire from which Boston has suffered since 1872, and one which in property loss is not much behind the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 12
Early yesterday morning the, inmates of a house, Situate at 529, Elizabeth-street, Strawberry Hills, and occupied by a Mr. John Graham, discovered that the stables were on fire. An alarm was sent to the Head…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Baptism of Fire
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 8
But, Paul, have you not enough affliction to move you? Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most geuial and loving nature, have you not, in order to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destructive Fire in Melbourne
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 74
About 9 o'clock on Sunday eyeing a fire broke out on the premises of Levy Bros, and Co., a 5-story building with a basement, the finest buildings in Lonsdale-street, and occupied, by Levy Pros…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →Fire at Thompson and Giles
The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 6
SHORTLY after 9 o'clock lust night a small fire broke out on the premises of Messrs, Thompson and Giles, drapers, of George- street. The alarm was sent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fatal Fire near London. London, Jan. 1
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 70
The 26 children who perished in the fire at the Forest Gate Industrial School were all boys, and they were suffocated in their sleep. Eighty children were rescued, many…
Continued on Trove, page 70 →Fire at a Palace. a Famous Art Collection Destroyed
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 11
LONDON, January 1.—A destructive fire has broken out at the magnificent palace of the King of the Belgians at Laeken, one of the northern suburbs of Brussels,…
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