Factory Burnt Out
BRISBANE, Wed.—Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused when a fire gutted the furniture factory of Olsen and Goodchap…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Big Timber Mill Gutted By Fire
BATLOW, Wed.—Thousands of pounds worth of timber were destroyed by fire at Laurel Hill, six miles south of Batlow, early…
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Damage estimated at £20.000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a furniture factory at Woollootigabba, Brisbane, last week. Picture shows smoke pouring from the building just before the front wall collapsed, almost, trapping a fireman…
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TAMWORTH, Thurs.—A verdie[?] for £2137/17/6 was awarded to the four Ronald brothers, a Trinkey Station, Quirindi, to-day…
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Mr. Roy S. Clugston, of South Graf ton, had his International timber lorry and trailer extensively damaged by fire this week…
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BRISBANE, Mon.—Four men and a woman jumped from a balcony to escape from a hotel fire in Gympie last night…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Gladys Marsh (5) was badly burnt about the legs and body when a spark from a fire in the back garden of her…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Mrs. Mary Applebee (63) fainted while fighting a fire in her home at Newton to-day and was later rescued…
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CHICAGO, Wed.—At least seven people died, and many were injured in a spectacular fire in the 23-storey Lasalle Hotel,…
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CHICAGO, Thurs.—Fifty-eight persons are known to have perished in the early morning fire which swept through a section of the 22-storey La Salle Hotel. Red Cross officials fear the toll may be substantially…
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CHICAGO, Friday.—The belief that the varnish on the wood penneling contributed to most of the smoke that suffocated many…
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NEW YORK, Sun.—Fifteen are known to be dead, and it is feared at least 25 have perished in an early morning fire…
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DUBUQUE (Ohio), Mon—Like the fire at Chicago's hotel La Salle, Panic contributed to the death roll in Dubuque's greatest tragedy, in which at least 15 persons lost their lives in the fire in the Canfield Hotel yesterday morning…
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THE HAGUE, Mon.—Four hundred Nazis set fire to an internment camp near Scheveninben, Holland, and rushed the gates,…
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A fire broke out in the kitchen chimney of Langley's Cafe, Prince street, Grafton, about 5.30 p.m. yesterday…
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WHILE Mr. Lloyd J. Robinson was attending the wedding breakfast following his marriage on Saturday, fire broke out at the laundry of his residence at 188 Pound street, Grafton. The call was received at the Grafton Fire Station at 9.20…
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ADELAIDE, Thurs. Police have established that the fire which gutted the nine-roomed palatial Tusmore home of the…
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Fire destroyed two shops with almost all their contents in Dorrigo's main street early this morning…
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DORRIGO, Fri. -- Fire destroyed two shops with almost all contents in Dorrigo's main street early this morning…
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SYDNEY, Mon.-- A large building was gutted, three houses set alight, and a complete block threatened by a fire in Parramatta…
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