Terrible Fire
LONDON, Jane 14.—A terrible fire occurred in a leather-goods factory at Philadelphia yesterday. Two hundred girls employed in the factory…
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Suburban Fire
The Kogarah, Rockdale, and Hurstville Fire Brigades turned out about 11 o'clock on Saturday night to a fire in Forest-road. Hurstville, in premises occupied by Mr. C. B. Hanson, newsagent and confectioner. Though the…
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About 11 o'clock on Saturday night the Kogarah Fire Brigade received a call to a fire that bad broken out in the premises occupied by Mr. C. B. Hanson, news agent and confectioner, of…
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Yesterday morning, shortly after 9 o'clock, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to 60 Margar[?]t-street. It was found that a fire had broken out in the office of Mr. J. Gillies, commission agent. A…
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The Mayor of Concord (Alderman T. O. Correy) has interviewed the member for the district with reference to the installation of fire alarms in the district, a work which was promised some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Fire Brigades Bill
Among the bills for the coming session is one dealing generally with lire brigades. It will he a comprehensive measure, and make provision, among other things, for the establishment of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Hurstville. a Shop and Residence Destroyed
Shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday the Hurstville branch of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to the premises of Mr. C. B. Hanson, newsagent and confectioner,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Escape Ladders. The London Experience. Interview With Superintendent Webb
"Fourteen years all but ten days in the Sydney Metropolitan Fire Brigade," is the record Superintendent Webb confessed to When interviewed by a "Star" reporter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Disastrous Fire in Philadelphia. Twelve Girls Killed. London, June 14
A disastrous fire occurred on Thursday in a leather goods factory in Philadelphia. Two hundred girls employed in the building rushed to the escapes. Many were crushed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at a Railway Station
LITHGOW, Monday.—Information was received in town yesterday that the railway station buildings at Mount Edgecombe, situated between the top points of the Zigzag and Clarence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Naphtha Train on Fire. a Scene of Frenzy. Two Hundred Persons Injured
Particulars of the fearful explosion of naphtha at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, announced in our cables of May 12, show that the cause of the catastrophe was the explosion'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burnt Out. An Unfortunate Family. PARRAMATTA
A fire occurred this morning at the back of May's Hill, Parramatta, by which a cottage occupied by Mrs. Brook and her two children was,with the contents, totally destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Westmead
A destructive fire occurred at Westmead yesterday, In which the residence of Mr. J. Brooks, Criddle-street, which comprised four rooms and furnished throughout, was totally destroyed. The place was not insured, and…
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A four-roomed weatherboard cottage and contents, owned and occupied by Mrs. Brook, of May's Hill, near Parramatta, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. Mrs. Brook was in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Parramatta. a Cottage Destroyed
Shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in a four-roomed weaterboard cottage in Criddle-street Parramatta, owned and occupied by Mr. John Brooks, and within a few…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Station Destroyed by Fire. Lithgow
Early on Saturday morning the station building at Mount Edgecombe, Zigzag, was totally destroyed by fire. The flames soon obtained a firm hold, and great volumes of black smoke issued from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Destructive Fire. House and Contents Destroyed. A Family's Hard Luck
A weatherboard cottage of 4 rooms, owned and occupied by Mrs. Brook and her two children, at the back of May's Hill, Parramatta, was totally destroyed…
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The residence of Mr. George Crowley, J.P., manager of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society. Limited, was nearly burned down just before noon yesterday. The house was…
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