Many Believed Killed in Hospital Fire
EFFINGHAM (Illinois), Tues. (A.A.P.).—About 50 patients are believed to have perished in a blaze which destroyed the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Reported Cease-Fire Order In China
NEW YORK, Tuesday. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Chinese communists are reported to have agreed to the proposal of…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—Fifty-seven lives were lost in the disastrous fire which destroyed Saint Anthony's Hospital at Effingham—an Illinois town of about 8000—on Monday night. The death-roll includes ten rew-born infants…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—It is officially announced in Damascus that Israel and Syria have signed a cease-fire agreement…
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LITHGOW, Tues--A fire completely destroyed a giant cooling, tower at Lithgow power station this afternoon…
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LITHGOW Wed.--The £30,000 fire at the Lithgow power house yesterday is believed to have been caused by sparks from a…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed. -- Three brigades and works fireman fought a fire which broke out at BHP steelworks this morning…
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LONDON, Thursday (AA.P.).—At least 13 persons—all girls—are dead and 24 people, including two firemen injured, as a result of a disastrous fire, which yesterday turned a fashion store in Glasgew into a holocaust…
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SYDNEY. Sun--Quick work by firemen extinguished a fire which broke out in the congested Imperial Arcade, City to-day. The…
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A claim for Uarnages against the Forestry Commission was made in a Supreme Court hearing at…
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MIAMI. Fri. (AAP).--A coast[?]uard cutter to-day reported that the fire on the Swedish tanker. Atlanta, had been extinguished…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—A thief or thieves robbed and then set fire to a house in Lakemba last night…
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MACLEAN, Fri.--Valentine Edward Garde was to-day charged at the Maclean Police Station that on May 25, he…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.-- Mrs. Maisie Painter (29), mother of three children, was burnt to death in a blazing house at Richmond…
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BRISBANE, Mon.--Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a shopping block at Crow's Nest this…
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SYDNEY, Thurs-- The N.S.W. Shires Association Conference to-day decided to urge the Railway Department to provide…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) said to-day that it was apparent that the major proportion of the cost of fire protection should be borne by those who are receiving the protection…
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A fire which broke out in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Aif: Hodge at Nambucca Heads on Sunday morning is believed to…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--A group of street women had set fire to a house because they claimed that the people in it were…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Police believe that schoolboys started a fire which caused damage estimated at £100 in the…
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