Adelaide Fire. Disastrous Conflagration. Adelaide
A destructive fire broke out in Gam bring and McDonald's bond store at Adelaide early this morning. The buildings, covering half an acre, were destroyed by…
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Fires & bushfires, 1917
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Huns Beaten Back. Violent French Fire. Paris, Wednesday Night
French communique states: -- A fairly, lively artillery struggle goes on south of Saint Quentin. Special units, endeavouring to reach our trenches at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Offensive. Heavy Artillery Fire on the Julian Front. London
An Italian official report states:-- There has been heavy artillery work on the Julian front, from Mount Cueeo to Mount Vodice, eastward of Gorizia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Beware of Fires
Several farmers, in conversation with us lately, have endorsed the warning we sounded recently anent careless use of fire in this district. Indications…
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A weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by a Hindoo, was totally destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. It is not yet known if the place was insured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incendiary Fires. Great Wheat Stocks Burnt. Petrograd. Monday Night
Fires, which are believed to be of an incendiary origin, have destroyed three million bushels of wheat in the Minsk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Western Front. Tremendous Artillery Fire. Emphasised by Twelve German Communiques. London
Twelve successive German communiques emphasise the violence of the artillery fire at Wystchaete bend. The latter is the region between Messines and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrograd. Fire Caused by Chemicals. London
"The Times" Petrograd correspondent says that a catastrophe took place in the harbor, where great quantities of chemicals from England exploded. A fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Picture Show Fire. Audience Remain Seated. Sydney
While a show was in progress at a Coogee picture theatre last night, a fire broke out in the operating box at the back of the dress circle; but although…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Parramatta. Baptist Church Damaged. Sydney
A fire in the Baptist Church at. Parramatta yesterday destroyed a room attached to the main building. The latter was damaged by smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →San Salvador in Ruins. Four Other Towns Wiped Out. Earthquake Volcano, and Fire. New York, Friday Night
The city of San Salvador, capital of Salvador Republic, Central America, has been visited by earthquake, and is in ruins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Church on Fire. Parramatta
The Baptist Church at Parramatta was severely damaged by fire yesterday. The cause of the outbreak is unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrow Escape. Weatherboard Building Blaze. Sydney
A weatherboard building, occupied by John Hamilton, who lives with his wife and son at Mattraville, near Botany, was totally destroyed by fire at an early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Ryde. Sydney
A fire which broke out at Ryde early this morning severely damaged a detached storeroom at the rear of John Delaney's grocery store, which was practically…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Germany. Amsterdam
A fire has destroyed many miles of forest near Cassel, making the twentieth forest fire in Germany in two months. Incendiarism is suspected…
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PORT MACQUARIE, Tuesday. Five, shops and dwellings were destroyed by fire at Port Macquarie on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Forest Fire. Fourteen Miles of Flame. Immense Damage in Sweden. Gothenburg
A fire has destroyed great areas of woods in Western Sweden. The flames are raging along a fourteen miles front and already millions of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Fire at Sea. the Union Co.'s Waitotara. London
The Navy Office states that the Union Steamship Company's steamer Waitotara caught fire at sea and was abandoned. The whole of the crew were picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ruthlessness. the Last Weapon Missing Fire. Paris
Official: For the week ending June 17th the arrivals were 1028 and sailings 1122; sinkings--above 1600 tons, nil; below, 5; unsuccessfully attacked, 5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat on Fire. 2000 Bags Damaged. Sydney
Two thousand bags of wheat owned by the State Wheat Board stacked in the railway, goods yards at Rozelle, were severely damaged by fire this afternoon…
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