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Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P., cabled to the Colonial Office from Holland Bay, 35 miles west of Kingston, giving an account of the disaster. Mr. Greenwood states that all the buildings and dwellings in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire occurred at Exeter, near Adelaide, early this morning, and destroyed three buildings in a row of weatherboard shops and dwellings. This is the second fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.--Another very severe earthquake has occurred, this time at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and, as at San Francisco, fire followed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday, 3.25 p.m.— The latest details of the earthquake at Kingston, Jamaica, state that it occurred without warning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday, Noon.--Mr. Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announces that the camp hospital has been destroyed at Kingston, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The question of more writer for the needs of the city is far from being' settled yet, despite the relief that will undoubtedly be given by the early completion of the Cataract dam, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announces that the Camp Hospital at Kingston is destroyed, that 30 people were killed and 300 injured. The fire, his message states, is confined to one-sixteenth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A very severe earthquake occurred at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, on Monday afternoon. The city, it is reported, has been destroyed, and there has been much loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire occurred at Winburn Mr. W. Lee's estate yesterday, when a stack containing 75 tons of hay, and 100 acres of grass, were destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Notwithstanding the confusion the greatest order was observed by all classes of people, there being no acts of rufflanism. The fire was controlled the same night, and is now almost extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The earthquake came without warning of any kind. After the first shook the people rushed into the streets, and succeeding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday.--Details of the earthquake at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, show that the catastrophe was Worse than was at first believed. The city has been ruined, and thousands of people are homeless. One account states that not a single house within a radius of 10 miles escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WAGGA, Friday. Yesterday Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, coroner, conducted an inquiry regarding four fires which occurred on Mr. M. O'Mahoney's selection,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At about 11 o'clock on Friday night a fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. E. Bracher, carpenter, Clarence-street, city, between Margaret and Erskine streets. The Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The most practical and successful demonstration of immediate fire extinction by portable apparatus was made at the Sydney Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The criminal outbreak in New York against wealth took the form of wholesale incendiarism in the early hours of the morning of December 7. Within two hours eight blocks of flats burst…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →According to telegrams received in New York martial law was enforced at Kingston until the panic had subsided. The negroes were at first frantic, believing the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Four undergraduates and three volunteer firemen lost their lives at Cornell University, U.S.A., on the morning of December 7, through the destruction by fire of the magnificent…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, Friday Evening.— Count Nicholas Tolstoi, a nephew of the famous Russian author, and five guests were incinerated in a fire which occurred at his residence at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday evening the Crow's Nest Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in Atchison-street, North Sydney, and, with detachments from North Sydney and Chatswood stations,…
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