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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
316 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 16
When a fire, which destroyed the weatherboard home of Mrs. L. Hutchinson, aged 36, at Yallourn, was extinguished this morning the body of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is feared that 39 lives have been lost in a fire following a fire-damp explosion in a colliery near Paturages. Three dead and four injured miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There were serious developments in the strike of longshoremen to-day when, during an early morning clash, one striker was killed and scores injured. Two of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of 46 miners working in the colliery near patarages at midnight, 2500 feet below the surface, 41 were killed and five injured, following a fire damp explosion,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire took place at Palmer's Island, on Wednesday night, at about 11 o'clock, when a seven-roomed weatherboard house, together with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tenant of the promises destroyed by fire at Palmer's Island, on Wednesday night last,, was Lawrence Sedgwick Ormerod, and not S. Lawrence, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Starting late in the afternoon, fire swept the great 'Chicago stockyards for five hours, before the fire officials announced that it was under control…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work started to-day on the rehabilitation of the fire-stricken area. Throughout last night firemen continued to play water on the smouldering embers. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An unknown man was killed and another seriously burnt when a petrol motor lorry struck an electric, light post at Sutherland this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire which broke out in Barnes' bacon factory at Homebush Bay to-night completely destroyed the two-storey building valued at £18,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage at Barnes bacon factory was more severe than at first thought. It is stated by the company that the loss was between £50,000 and £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Within sight of Empire "air, day" celebrations visitors to and over the aerodrome saw Flying Officer Williams and Corporal Brown killed when their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With the rejection of peace proposals by strikers, rioting at the Autolite plant was resumed to-day. Soldiers-fired a rifle volley presumably over the heads of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to a tyre bursting a motor coach got out of control and collided with a telegraph pole at Lipostey and caught fire. Thirteen passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There was great excitement in a fish shop at Newcastle occupied by Mrs. Mary Georges, when fat in a container on the kitchen stove boiled over and caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trips to the British bulb field when the flowers are at their best are popular features of the London and NorthEastern Railway's programme in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kyogle had its first fire of the year shortly after noon on Wednesday, when a house on Church Hill, owned by Mr. H. Simpson, and occupied by Mr. and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hundreds of packing cases and a quarter of a minion oranges were destroyed, while a man had a narrow escape from being suffocated, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners at Aberdare Extended colliery won a desperate race against spreading fire, 1500 feet below the surface, and half a mile from the main…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A house at the corner of Kelly and Norrie streets, South Grafton, was destroyed by fire about 3 o'clock this morning. The building, which was a…
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