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Mr. A. S. Glider, of Glebe Point, Sydney, is the inventor of the fire-escape shown in the accompanying illustration. The escape is a permanent structure, and consists of a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--A coffee shop in Paternoster Row, London, has been destroyed by fire. Seven of the employees were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A coffee shop in Paternoster Row was destroyed by fire last night. Seven employees perished in trying to escape through the skylight…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The only Englishwoman who lost her life in the fatal fire in Chicago, Miss Nellie Reed, is not unknown in the theatrical world in London. She began life by singing in chorus, says "The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Admiral Alexeieff, the Russian Viceroy in the Far East, now mentions that the four Japanese steamers which were filled with explosives, and which were sent…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Some fat in the kitchen stove at Balmain Hospital caught alight yesterday afternoon, and caused a bit of excitement. A detachment from the local branch of the M.F.B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An explosion of gas set fire to some celluloid works on the Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris. A number of the workmen and women took refuge on the balconies…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The German steamer Pronto, 1012 tons, has arrived at Chifu with 15 holes in her hull. Her officers report that she underwent the fire of a Russian cruiser for 25 minutes off Port Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The British steamer Ching-Ping, 1385 tons, owned by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited. on arriving at Wei-hai-wei, complained to the British authorities at that port…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Russian gunboat Mandjur, which, since the beginning of the war, has been lying at Shanghai, has not been dismantled, as insisted on by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A ruinous conflagration has destroyed three acres of the business section of the City of Rochester, New York State. Defective connections of the electric…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another destructive fire is reported from the United States. The scene of this latest disaster was Rochester, in the State of New York…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the bunkers of the steamer Norfolk, lying at Darling Island. The outbreak was of a trifling nature and was quickly subdued by members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another destructive fire is reported from the United States. The scene of this latest disaster was Rochester, in the State of New York…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owing to defective connections in an electric motor working a lift a fire started in the premises of a dry goods company in Rochester, New York State. The water in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Splendid reports of the rainfall are being received from all parts of the district, as much as 8 inches being recorded. Narrabri has had over 5 inches. All traces of bush fires in every part of the district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday evening a fire occurred at the farm of Mr. Charles Stewart, when a shed, containing a quantity of seed wheat, oats, and a deal of chaff, harness, and farm tools, with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An alarm of fire was received at the No. 3, Circular Quay Station, last night. The No. 3 steamers and ladders, headquarters' hose carriage and ladders, and a detchment from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was the eve of St. John, the night of the Beltane fires on all the southern hills. The herds have mostly given them over in those enlightened days, but many a time have I gone--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Narrabri correspondent, writing on Wednesday last, said:—Bush fires are raging right from Boggabri to Wee Waa, and many instances of the destruction of homesteads are…
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