The Fire at Broken Hill
In any other than a coal mine injury by fire would seem to be improbable did not experience in this colony show how serious an…
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The Broken Hill Fire. Conflicting Reports
BROKEN HILL, Friday.—Official reports regarding the fire in the Proprietary Mine are still favorable. It is stated that the area is gradually being contracted and the flames extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Broken Hill Fire. Broken Hill
There is nothing fresh to report regarding the fire. The men have completely surrounded the seat of conflagration at the 300ft. level, and have returned to the 200ft. level, where they have been engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Big Fire in a Broken Hill Mine
A little over two years ago, on a Sunday, the startling intelligence was circulated that the underground timbers in Block 11 of the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, were on fire. Last Sunday came the…
Continued on Trove, page 631 →Fire at Sherwood. Sensational Evidence—Verdict of Arren
On the afternoon of September 6, curtain unoccupied premises on Woodpark road, Sherwood, the property of Mr. John Olson of Sydney, were discovered to be on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Strike in Pennsylvania. Officers Fire Upon the Mor
Advices have been received in London to the effect that a serious conflict with colliery strikers has taken place in the United States, resulting in much loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Broken-hill Proprietary Mine. Progress of the Fire
BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- There is not much alteration yet in the position of the fire, although it is being gradually extinguished. The men are now working in the 200ft. level, where the gases…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Latest About the Broken Hill Fire. Broken Hill, Tuesday Evening
The latest news from the seat of the fire is very assuring. The fire in the 200ft. level section is reported to be rapidly approaching isolation, and as steam is coming from the face with no foul air it…
Continued on Trove, page 588 →Girton College. And the Girton Girl. The Female Fire Brigade
The popular impression of a Girton girl is, I believe, that she is a wan and pale young lady, that she wears spectacles, that she is a mere bundle of nerves, and that, somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Proprietary Mine on Fire. (See illustrations on this page.)
The Proprietary Mine Fire, (Continued from page 25.) There is little fresh to report regarding the fire. Efforts to cope with it are being…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Colliery Strike in Pennsylvania. Officers Fire Upon the Mob. Much Loss of Life. LONDON, Sept. 11
Advices have been received in London to the effect that a serious conflict with colliery strikers has taken place in the United States, resulting in much loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 592 →The Great Fires of Sydney. a Brewery Burnt Out. Narrow Escape of a Distillery. No. Iv
FROM the Cathedral and theatres the story of the fires turns this week to a brewery and distillery. The last account, referring to 1840, detailed how the soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Series of Small Fires
A FIRE broke out at the Grosvenor Hotel at 5.40 p.m. yesterday afternoon. It originated in the wooden flooring of the roof, and before it was extinguished by the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigades' Demonstration
The Fire Brigades' Demonstration attracted only a moderate attendance to the Cricket Ground, but the different events were keenly contested. The principal results were:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires
At 20 minutes to 6 on Saturday afternoon a small fire occurred at the Grosvenor Hotel. A quantity of flooring on the roof was destroyed, and a door was damaged, but the inmates had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigade Competition
The first of the series of local fire brigade competitions, under the auspices of the Amalgamated Fire Brigades' Association of Newcastle, took place on the Cricket Ground this afternoon. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle News. Fire Brigades Competition
The first local competition promoted by the Newcastle Fire Brigades Association was held on Saturday afternoon on the Cricket Ground, in the presence of a considerable number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Fire at Broken Hill
BROKEN HILL, September 13.—Broken Hill is particularly unfortunate in the periodical occurrence of calamities which, share the confidence of mining investors and business people and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fire at Broken Hill. Broken Hill
Your correspondent visited Dickenson's shaft of the Proprietary mine this morning, where everything was very quiet. The doctor, who is still in attendance night and day, states that none of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Wilcannia
WILCANNIA, Monday.—A weatherboard structure, situated to Myers-street unoccupied, and the property of an absentee named Allworth, was totally destroyed by fire…
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