Fire at Redfern
No sooner had the firemen returned from Hordern's great blaze, and rid themselves of their wet, and in several instances ruined, clothing, than they were called out again. A…
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The Fire Underwriters
In connection with the fire, a specially summoned meeting of the members of the Fire Underwriters' Association of New South Wales was held in the association's offices at the Exchange,…
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Such a calamity as that which in the space of little more than two hours of yesterday morning destroyed the principal business premises of Messrs. Anthony Hordern and…
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On Saturday afternoon, October 9, 1898, a disastrous fire occurred at Redfern, which resulted in the destruction of about twenty-five buildings, the damages being estimated at about £30,000…
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The Moore-street fire, which experts regard as being the only one which in any way approaches Hordern's, broke out about 2 o'clock in the morning of Thursday, October 2, 1890…
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Every inquiry made regarding the origin of the fire was met with the simple answer: "It started in the toy department." An employee, speaking to an interested group of spectators in Hay-strtet…
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The Metropolitan Fire Brigades were called into section a second time yesterday in answer to an alarm received in the evening from Regent-street, Redfern. The outbreak, however, proved insignificant, the…
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All trains to Sydney from Parramatta yesterday morning were crowded to their utmost capacity with people on their way to see the great fire in Sydney, and when business places…
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There seems to be a consensus of opinion that the fire broke out about 8.15 a.m., when between 300 and 400 employees, nearly all men, were in various parts of the emporium. The remainder of the staff…
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The famous Garden Palace was destroyed by fire on the morning of September 22, 1882. The flames obtained a firm hold of the building before the brigades arrived, and they were unable to…
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As an evidence of the great heat it may be mentioned that the lead guttering on the Presbyterian Church aud the terrace of houses belonging thereto, which is a distance of over 150 yards from the fire,…
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Considerable difficulty was experienced by the police in keeping people from encroaching on the roped in space. Some persons managed to evade the police and quickly joined the employees who were engaged…
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Superintendent Webb, of the M.F.B., told en "Evening News" representative on Wednesday afternoon that he was of the opinion that the fire at Hordern's had been smouldering before the…
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"On every floor there are service pipes and hoses of from 50ft to 100ft in length," said a former employee at Hordern's, who had been engaged there as fireman for some years. "But," he…
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"Why don't you keep out of crowds?" asked the court of a suspect. "I myself yesterday went round half a mile to get away from a crowd." But the difference between the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Other Great Fires. the Conflagration of 1890. Enormous Damage
The fire which occurred on the morning of October 2, 1890, and devastated Pitt, Moore, and Castlereagh streets, was one of the greatest that has over occurred in Australia, and the largest in…
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According to the belief of a number of the employees, the fire must have been smouldering all night in the middle building in Gipps-street, and in the bottom floor at the corner next…
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A number of additions and improvements to the North Sydney station of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, in Walker-street, are approaching completion, the work having been undertaken in…
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A disastrous and fatal fire occurred in George- street on Saturday evening, September 1, 1894, when Messrs. John Lawler and Sons' warehouse was destroyed and ten buildings were wrecked by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Origin and Progress of the Fire
In the hurry and confusion inseparable from such a great catastrophe, it is, of course, impossible to fix with certainty the cause and actual point of the inception of the fire. A rumor was…
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