Mails Damaged by Fire Outbreak on Comorin Melbourne
Bags of Australian mail numbering 572 for London were damaged by the fire which broke out on the steamer Comorin at Colombo last Thursday…
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Surrendered Under Machine-gun Fire Escaped Murderers Trapped VANCOUVER
The three desperadoes who killed two policemen and two sheriffs after robbing the State Bank at Manter (Kansas) of £1000, were surrounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dash for Life Family Escapes Over Awning Fire at Carlton
Cut off early to-day by smoke and fire in his shop below, Thomas Patrick Kelly, chemist, of Railway-par-are, Carlton, his wife and son escaped…
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Firemen under Chief-Officer Nance lastnight checked a lire in the shop of Harry Mitchell, second-hand dealer, of Bathurst-street, city, before it could…
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[?]from Headquarter [?] good [?] last night wheat [?] the [?] out in the second-hand clothing sh[?]p [?]chell Bathurst [?]…
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About £25 damage was done to a cotton spinning machine to-day when a fire broke out in the cotton spinning room at George A. Bond's factory,…
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The bags of Australian mail for London which were damaged by water when a fire broke out in the steamer Comorin at Colombo on Thursday,…
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An outbreak of fire shortly before midnight caused extensive damage to the contents and fittings of a shop at 122 Bathurst-street, city, occupied by Mr. Henry Mitchell, wardrobe…
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THEY TAKE THESE THINGS CALMLY IN U S A —This snap taken during a riot of unemployed in Cleveland, U.S.A., makes a curious contrast between the apparent unconcern of the crowd and the earnestness of the struggle between the policeman and a rioter…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Harden
Fire destroyed a five-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Jockey B. Spurr, of Whitton-lane, Harden, and owned by R. Larkin. A number of racehorses were let out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Knew Way Engineer Escaped Hobson's Bay Fire
In pitch darkness, with black smoke becoming thicker every second, J. W. Stewart, an engineer on the Hobson's…
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WHAT threatened to be one of the must disastrous shipping fires in the history of Sydney was quelled aboard the Aberdeen and…
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Passengers on the vessel, which was timed to leave for London to-day, watching the fire-engines at work last night. The fire was in the engine-room…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hobsons Bay. Fire in Engine-room. Departure Delayed
An outbreak of fire occurred in the engine-room of the oil-burning steamship Hobsons Bay last night. In consequence, the departure, of the vessel for London, which was…
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CONSTERNATION REIGNED yesterday evening on the liner Hobsons Bay, berthed in Darling Harbor, and all ready tor sail to-day for London, when fire was discovered in the after boiler-room. Escaping oil had caught and endangered the big ves[?] fuel tanks, and 90 stewards and 15 eng-s subdued before it got a hold. The fight was long and the ship, plunged into darkness when her steam…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastor's Tact in Fire Chapel Ablaze Congregation Walks to Safety London
WHILE the Rev. J. Wesley Hart was addressing the congregation at morning service in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Queen's Road, Battersea,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stubborn Firefighters Prevent Big Harbor Disaster Hobsons Bay on Fire at Miller's Point Engineers Scalded Pressing Flames Back from Fuel Tanks Terrible Explosion Averted
With her after boiler-room a mass of flames, the liner Hobsons Bay, berthed at Miller's Point, last night…
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A six-roomed unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Tennyson-street. Granville, was discovered to be on fire about midnight on Sunday. The flames had such a good hold that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Valuable Book Destroyed in Fire. Forbes
When a fire broke out in a weather board cottage in Forbes at 4 o'clock in the morning, during the absence of the occupier, Mr. Charles Smee, an old book, for which the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire-mad Seventy=six Are Killed Cinema Blaze Kirm (Manchuria)
A stampede took place among an audience of a thousand people when a blaze occurred in a moving…
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