Serious Fire at Maitland
A serious fire occurred, on the second floor of a building owned by David Cohen and Co., Ltd., in High street, West Maitland, and occupied by the Northern…
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Fires & bushfires, 1934
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Casino Fire
The building, in Walker street, Casino, housing Tom Lee's bootshop, which was gutted by fire early on Friday, was covered by insurance by the owner, Mr…
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Another mysterious fire--the third in five years--caused considerable damage to the newly-renovated Capitol Theatre at Inverell early on Friday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire-proof New Cunard Liner Well Be Safest Ship Afloat. London
Designers and builders are concentrating their efforts on making the Cunard liner No. 534 immune from serious fire risk. The ship throughout its whole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stories Of Heroism In Fire Peril Girl Swimmer Saved Mother-Father Dead Panic on Blazing Liner When Passengers Discovered Danger Allegations Against Crew. New York
Stories of a terrible panic on board the burning liner Morro Castle, of sailors leaving with few passengers in the lifeboats, of heroic struggles for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Fire on South American Liner "Work of Radicals."
BALBOA (Panama Canal), Monday. Several officers of the liner Santa Rita, which made port under her own power to-day with a fire in the hold, declared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Bugs? In American Liners Acting Captain's Evidence the Panic Among Passengers. New York
The first day of the official investigation into the Morro Castle fire to-day only added mystery to the bizarre disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire at Coonamble
A disastrous fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning at Ulamamabri, eight miles from Coonabarabran, when Mr. Charles Herbert's residence, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joinery Factory Fire Scare at Dorrigo. Dorrigo
The joinery factory of Messrs. Hollingworth and Millikins, Hickory street, caught fire early on Saturday afternoon. The blaze was caused by sparks from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Good Save Mongogarie Sawmill Fire. Rappvile
A good save was effected when a fire broke out during the week at the Mongogarie mill, owned by the Enterprise Timber and Sawmilling Company…
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom McSkimming, who recently left Dorrigo to reside at Bellingen, lost the whole of their furniture and practically all their clothing…
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The clanging of the fire bell at about one o'clock last Saturday brought people from their houses in a rush and in the space of a few moments [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violence in U.S.A. Strike Riots Four Shot Troops Fire on Strikers. New York
With the announcement at Washington to-day that the President's Board had abandoned immediate hopes of arbitrating in the textile strike,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Factory Fire £5000 Damage in Melbourne Police Investigating. Melbourne
The police are investigating a fire which caused damage estimated at £5000, when it destroyed stock, and damaged I. Trescowthick's boot and shoe factory…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Alaska Nome Almost Wiped Out Four Hundred People Homeless. Nome (Alaska)
Two Eskimos were burned to death and a number of white persons injured by dynamite explosions in efforts to check a fire which destroyed this famed gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Primus Stove Explodes Garage Fire at Penshurst Sydney
Two cars were destroyed, a garage badly damaged, and William Teale was burned about the arms and suffered shock when a primus stove exploded in his garage at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Day in Fiji Fire-walkers Amaze Weird Customs, Strange Ceremonies Newcastle Tourist's Story
Weird customs, strange ceremonies and picturesque legends, associated with the South Sea Islands and the natives who dwell there, have been, from time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →260 Miners Are Missing Mine Sealed Terrible Loss Of Life in North Wales Colliery Fire Is Still Raging Rescuers Withdraw From Mine. London
After an exhausting day it was officially announced that rescue operations in the blazing Gresford colliery had been abandoned, as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Walkers Five Hindus Seriously Burnt Religious Ceremony. Calcutta
Five men and a boy were terribly injured during the Hindu religious ceremony of walking through fire at a Madias suburb…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thrills in the Sky Airship Amongst Meteors Dodging Globes of Fire Swerved to Avoid Collision San Fran Cisco
Driving head-on, at an altitude of 7000 feet, into a great shower of meteors, some of which exploded with sufficient force to rock tine ship, the…
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