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In the Forbes district 300 square miles of country-were swept by fires. The scene at night was appalling, and fears were entertained that the flames might be carried into the population area…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday afternoon Messrs, Lewis and Loney's premises at Charles-street, Red-fern, caught fire. The head brigade station received notice at 12.35 o'clock, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The West Hotel at Slinneappolis, the largest hotel between Chicago and the Pacific, caught fire on Tuesday niplit. There were 700 guests asleep.. Terrible sceiies were witnessed. There were many heroic rescues. Thii tapttiin of the firemen was tilled while rescuing an aged unconscious woman, who was eventually saved. Tl»e total number of deaths was ten…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some excitement was caused at Redfern yesterday afternoon when it was found that the premises of Lewis and Loney. hat manufacturers. Charles-st., were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GUNDAGAI, Saturday.--Yesterday a bush fire started on William Boote's Mundario station, but a number of men were speedily on tho scene of the fire find…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A discovery which goes to show how bush fires originate was made yesterday. At midday a fire started on the property of Mr. William Bootes, of Bangus. A large number…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday afternoon a call was received by the Redfern Fire Station to Charles-street, Redfern, where a straw hat factory, occupied by Messrs. Lewis and Loney, was found to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire occurred at the premises of Messrs. Lewis and Loney, hat manufacturers, of Charles-street, Redfern, Just after 12 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The outbreak is supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A grocer's shop in Eyre-street, South Broken Hill, occupied by Messrs. W. and M. Stone, was completely burned down last night through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The police are investigating a somewhat sensational discovery which was made at Bangus Station, the property of Mr. Wm. Bootes. After a fire had burned 100 acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The hull of the barque Itata, which was burned almost to the water's edge early on Friday last, remains fast on the bank where she was beached, off the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At 1.25 p.m. yesterday the Granville Volunteer Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in Granville. The scene was a three-roomed house, and was reported to be well alight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The hotel at Airly was burned down yesterday morning. It is believed that the premises, stock, and furniture were insured. COFF'S HARBOUR, Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fire occurred yesterday at Mr. H. Dale's boillng-down works at East Brighton, and within three hours the buildings, boilers, vats, and plant generally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An unoccupied weatherboard building, with an iron roof, standing in Thomas-street, Granville, end consisting of two rooms and a detached kitchen, was burnt out early…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--The Exchange Hotel at Gawler was found to be on fire shortly after 1 o'clook this morning. The fire brigade was smartly on the scene, and saved several rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred in the Exchange Hotel, Murray-street, Gawler, early this morning. Three men and two domestic servants were sleeping upstairs when the alarm was given. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Newton, Deputy-Superintendent of Navigation, leaves Sydney for Newcastle today, to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fire on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By some inexplicable means, a fire broke out this morning on the roof of the members' club in the Royal Agricultural Society's Ground, Moore Park. Paddington, Redfern, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 10 o'clock this morning the headquarters station got the call from the G.P.O. that there was a fire "raging" at the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park, and engines were at…
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