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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
548 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 28
Though it is doubtful if the death roll will reach the first staggering estimate, the story of the Novedades Theatre horror is the worst in Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires have broken out again at Central and Lower Bucca. The whole of the range is on fire again behind the holdings of Messrs. McLauchlan, Perring,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The blazing sun and hot wind of Sunday converted large areas of bush land between Brisbane and the New South Wales border into an inferno, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The police are satisfied that an attempt to burn down the pay office of the Victorian Stevedoring Co., at Port Melbourne last night, was deliberate and malicious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was discovered late last night in the Riga fur store, Elizabeth street. Extensive damage was done to the valuable stock of furs and silk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The whole city is in mourning for the funeral victims of the theatre disaster. The streets in the neighborhood of the General Hospital, where the dead were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hie strong[?]westerly wind fanned up the bush fires and caused serious outbreaks on the Bellinger last weekend. The most serious outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thora, at the foot of the Dorrigo Mountain, was threatened with devastation by bush fires which raged throughout last Friday afternoon and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The State Forest at Upper Bucca has been burning for weeks. Mr. Geo Miller, forest guard has been trying to check the fires, assisted by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious fire was prevented by the timely arrival of the fire brigade to-day when an outbreak occurred at the oil refilling plant of the Fell Associated Oil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire Brigade headquarters received a telephone message early this morning, to the effect that a fire had broken out at St. Vincent's Hospital. Forty-five men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the result of an explosion in a fire in her laundry, Mrs. E. Solway, of Alma street, South Murwillumbah, lies injured in the Tweed District Hospital. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About seven o'clock last night the grandstand and pavilion on the Jetty recreation reserve was found to be well alight, and it was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A grass fire came up from the bank of the creek and got into Coffs cemetery on Friday afternoon. Some of the outer fencing was destroyed, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious damage was caused by a fire which broke out at the works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Pyrmont, late last night. Two hours elapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire at Orange destroyed a two-storey building in the main business centre causing damage estimated at £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The motor speed boat Ace, took fire during a trial run on Kogarah Bay yesterday and the owner, together with his engineer, had to jump overboard to escape…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The police are investigating a fire which occurred last night at the residence of Walter Stone, at Auburn. When the outbreak was extinguished it is alleged,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred on Monday night, at the Jetty end, when the grandstand on the sports ground was completely destroyed. The fire was discovered shortly before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Walter Phillip Stone, 56, a bookmaker, was charged at the Parramatta court with having maliciously set fire to a dwelling-house at Auburn, with intent to defraud…
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