Fire at White Cliffs. Rescuer's Arm Badly Cut
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 7
WHITE CLIFFS, Monday.--A large wood and Iron building, owned and occupied by Mr. John Kugan, situated on the Tableland, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday, at 3 p.m., during…
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Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 1
Probably no fitter horse than Melodrama was on Saturday ever stepped on a racecourse, and the fire and go of a dozen horses seemed embodied in his frame…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 4
A fire broke out in the residence of Mrs. J. R. Craige, Ferris-street, (Annandale, at 10-47 on Monday night, when damage to the extent of about £100 was done. The M.F.B. with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. Panic in a Synagogue. Forty-eight Killed, Many Injured. False Alarm of Fire
Evening News · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 6
LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—A groundless alarm of fire created a panic in the Synagogue at Marmaros-Sziget, Hungary, where 3000 people were gathered, it being the Day of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →False Alarm of Fire a Panic-stricken Congregation Dreadful Tragedy in a Synagogue London, Tuesday, 3.5, p.m
The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 1
A false alarm of the was responsible for a fearful disaster in Maramarossziget, Hungary, yesterday. A service was in progress in the Jewish…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 8
In connection with the recent fire in the Kynuna district two men had a narrow escape. They became hemmed in by the fire, and were compelled to seek a refuge in a waterhole…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 7
At an early hour this morning the M.F.B. received a call to Argent-chambers, 19 Hunter-street, where it was thought a fire had broken out on the top floor, in a workroom…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 9
WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--An outbreak of fire was discovered in the after-hatch of the Union Co.'s steamer Pateena, while leaving Picton. The hatchway was battened down, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Ashfield. a Mysterious Occurrence
Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 5
A mysterious outbreak of fire, fortunately discovered before much damage was done, occurred at the Ashfield Town Hall shortly before half-past 1 o'clock this afternoon…
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Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 8
The necessity for having adequate fire fighting appliances in the municipality of Vaucluse has I been agitating the minds of the local aldermen, ' and the residents for some .time. At a recent…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 7
During the run of the Union S.S. Company's Pateena from Picton to Wellington last night a fire was discovered in the aftarhold. Not much damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Kent-street Fire. Lodging-house Keeper Fatally Burned
Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4
The City Coroner held an inquest into the death of Emily Lambourne, 58, a lodging-house-keeper who lived at 189 Kent-street, city, which, took place at the Sydney Hospital on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fatal Panic. in a Synagogue. False Alarm of Fire. London, Oct. 6
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 7
A groundless alarm of fire caused a panic among a congregation numbering 3000 in the Synagogue at Maramaros Sziget, Hungary…
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Evening News · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 4
Owing to some curtains coming in contact with a lighted candle a fire brote out in a back bedroom in the dwelling of Mr. Eugene Croft, Avenue road, Mosman, last night. The…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 9
The select committee appointed by the Legislative Council to inquire into means for the prevention of fire witnessed yesterday morning an exhibition of a fire escape of an extremely…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Van on Fire. Driver Severely Burned
Evening News · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 5
One of David Jones' furniture vans caught fire in Jersey-road, Paddington, this afternoon, and the local branch of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was called upon to extinguish the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 13
Information has been received of another disastrous bush fire, which has swept several holdings in the vicinity of Ayrshir[?] Downs. The fire traversed 10 miles of the country,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 14
A furniture van belonging to David Jones and [?] caught fire in Jersey-road, Paddington, yesterday afternoon. It is thought that a passer by must have dropped a lighted match into it. The M.F.B. put out the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 11
On Thursday night the M.F.B. received a call to Clovelly, Avenue-road, Mosman, a private house occupied by Mr. Eugene Croft. Some bedcurtalns had come in contact with a gas jet. The flames were put out by the inmates of the house with buckets of water, but in…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 15
A owelling and furniture belonging to Mr. J. J. M'Kay on the Post-office Farm, at West Blowering, were partially destroyed by fire last night. The cause of the outbreak is…
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