Train on Fire. Brisbane
Sparks from the engine set alight to the roof of a passenger coach next to the engine on the Sandgate train between Budgeen and Booball this…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
364 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 19
Saved From Fire. Brisbane
Two men and valuable horses were saved from possible death today by Jack Scott, a well-known roughrider, who clambered over 20…
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Vincent Phillips, 30 was severely burned when he delayed his escape from a burning boarding-house at Mackay to collect some clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lism0re Fire Arson Finding Returned Draper Committed for Trial Benzine Tin Exhibit. Lismore
George Malouf was committed for trial at the Lismore Quarter Sessions on a charge of arson at Lismore today, at an inquiry into a fire in…
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A car belonging to Mr. A. Martin, of Ettrick, was destroyed when it ran off the road on Ettrick Range on Friday night and after careering down a steep…
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William Cuthbert Dodds (66), married, owner of Taishan Flats, Breakfast Creek, lost his life when a fire occurred in the building early this…
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Referring to the fire which destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. A. Gordon, well-known residents of Bonville, last Tuesday nigh, our…
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The first fire at Urunga for many years occurred there early last Thursday morning, when a cottage owned by Mr. Colin Greer, of Bellingen, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hotel Fire Inquest On Victims Firemen Could Have Saved Boy. Sydney
"If the lad had remained in his bedroom we could have saved him quite easily," said Fireman Barker, giving evidence before the City Coroner,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Incinerated Cigarette Causes Fire. Dubbo
A cigarette is believed to have set fire to a house in which Norman Daley (48), aborigine, was burnt to death, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Blayney Man on Trial. Bathurst
A plea of not guilty was entered by John Thomas Reed (32), of Blayney, when he stood his trial to-day on a charge of having set fire to a house…
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Detective Turner, at the Bathurst Circuit Court to-day, told how he found a pair of shoes in the home of John Thomas Reed, 32, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourteen Dead in Forest Fire in Canada. Fort Frances (Ontario)
Fourteen lives were lost in a forest fire sweeping through homesteads over an area of 50 miles wide. The bodies of two women and nine children were…
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With the approach of the bush fire season, the Bush Fires Advisory Committee, representing a number of interested bodies, has resumed its…
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An unoccupied four-roomed house owned by Mr. Repton Hobart, of Thora, was destroyed by fire at Sawtell last Wednesday night. Mr. Finn…
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Mr. R. Jackson, a representative of the Texaco Oil Co., was driving in his car from Port Macquarie to Kempsey one afternoon last week,…
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With his cltohes alight, Alan Kevin Hynes, 21, of Arncliffe, was rescued from a blazing motor garage at the rear of his home to-night, after he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Volunteers Extinguish Flames. Melbourne
Bush fires caused anxiety in many parts of the State, where rising temperatures and strong northerly winds made conditions dangerous. Between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Die in Plane Fire After Crash. Stockholm
Five persons were killed when a hospital plane, travelling to Stockholm from Soerfers, crashed into a mountainside, in a fog, after hitting the tops of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not the Rising Moon House Destroyed by Fire. Maclean
While returning home from work on Friday night, Mr. A. Sheehan, of Taloumbi, noticed a bright glare in the vicinity of his home, which he at first…
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