The Aricaras broke under the devastating fire, wheeled and retreated.

Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.

On May 11, 1919, an extensive fire broke out on Cardiff Street, Aberdare.

The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Shortly afterwards, a fire broke out on the quarterdeck after an arms locker exploded, which was eventually extinguished with difficulty by the crew.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

Filming on The Circus was continuing steadily when a fire broke out on 28 September, destroying the set.

For example, when a fire broke out in 1840, dozens of pilgrims were trampled to death.

On 24 August 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year, a fire broke out in Rome which lasted three days and which destroyed a number of important public buildings.

Likewise, North Korea attempted another test fire in April 2012, claimed also as a satellite launch, but it broke up in flight after 90 seconds.

* 1973 – Catastrophic BLEVE ( Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion ) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.

Later, as a result of his writings against Pelagianism, a body of excited partisans broke into the monastic buildings, set them on fire, attacked the inmates and killed a deacon, forcing Jerome to seek safety in a neighboring fortress ( 416 ).

On the night of January, 18th 1996 a fire broke out in a home for foreign refugees, killing 10 people and severely injuring more than 30 others, mostly children.

Evolving to sentience from colonies of carnivorous tubeworms living beneath the ocean of an ice moon similar to Europa, the Gw ' oth broke through the ice and first experimented with fire only two generations previous to mastering nuclear fission.

* 1972 – In the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.

On 16 October 1834, a fire broke out in the Palace after an overheated stove used to destroy the Exchequer's stockpile of tally sticks set fire to the House of Lords Chamber.

The next day, though, with Zeus ' help, the Trojans broke into the Achaean camp and were on the verge of setting fire to the Achaean ships.

He transferred to GE's plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to work on high voltage transformers, but after a fire broke out at the plant, Bush and the other test men were suspended.

Mid-way through the test, a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

At a 2004 conference of the Aerospace Corporation and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, engineer and physicist Robert Wood suggested that the fire began when Biela's Comet broke up over the Midwest.

The tomb of William I of Sicily ( the founder's father ), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

On 2 September 2004, a fire broke out at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

The whistle of Sherman's locomotives often drowned out the rattle of the skirmish fire.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

Find out whether fire protection, sewage system, gas, water mains, and electrical lines are available in the locality.

The candle had been stuck on a tin lid so it wouldn't set fire to the crate when it guttered out.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??

* 1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1, 200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders.

In keeping with the prevailing view of celestial bodies as balls of fire in the sky, Anaximenes proposed that the earth let out an exhalation of air that rarefied, ignited and became the stars.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

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He gets out of cover and takes aim on the flamethrower but misses, and gets hit by enemy fire.

* 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out.

Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.

* 1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M / S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.

Numerous fires had previously broken out in the Bronx prior to this fire.

" The men were so crowded in upon one another ", wrote Mérode-Westerloo, " that they couldn ’ t even fire – let alone receive or carry out any orders.