New Jersey

Belleville, NJ Silver Lake School Fire, Dec 1922

SCHOOL DESTROYED, INCENDIARY BLAMED

Fire, Starting in Teacher's Desk, Sweeps Belleville (N. J.) Building That Housed 1,100 Pupils.

LOSS PLACED AT $300,000  read more »

Atlantic City, NJ Hotel Fire, Feb 1916

Atlantic City NJ  Hotel Dunlop became the Overbrook.jpg Atlantic City NJ Church Destroyed Hotel In Background.jpg

FIVE DEAD IN FIRE AT ATLANTIC CITY.  read more »

Paterson, NJ Fire Rages Through City, Feb 1902

Car barns where the fire started. City Hall Ruins

LICKED UP MILLIONS.

FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH THE HEART OF PATERSON, N. J.

TWENTY-FIVE BLOCKS DEVOURED.  read more »

Paterson, NJ Fireworks Explosion, June 1901

FATAL EXPLOSION.

FIREWORKS LET GO IN A TENEMENT AND KILLED TWELVE PEOPLE.  read more »

Paterson, NJ Hotel Manhattan Fire, May 1920

Hotel Manhattan in Patterson

HOTEL DESTROYED BY EARLY MORNING FIRE.  read more »

Ocean City, NJ Eight Blocks Burn, Oct 1927

Ruins 9th and Wesley Streets Destroyed by the Fire

OCEAN CITY TRADE AREA IS SWEPT BY $4,000,000 FIRE.  read more »

Atlantic City, NJ Drowning Rescue, Jul 1911

Philadelphia Bather Rescued From Ocean

Special to The Inquirer.  read more »

Camden, NJ Train Collision, Dec 1907

BAD ACCIDENT NEAR CAMDEN.

THREE ARE KILLED AND SEVENTEEN INJURED.

DUE LARGELY TO A FOG.

WRECKAGE ON FIRE, BUT THE LOCAL FIREMEN RENDER EFFICIENT AID.

(By Associated Press.)  read more »

Hoboken, NJ Drownings, Aug 1875

DROWNING AT HOBOKEN.  read more »

Belleville, NJ Town Fire, Aug 1875

FIRE IN BELLEVILLE, N. J.  read more »

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