The Fire at Smyrna Residents Panic-stricken Italy Sends Help (Reuter's Message.) London, September 14
Reuter's Rome correspondent re-j ports:— "Messages from Smyrna state that a terrible fire has broken out and that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1922
267 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 14
Great Fire of Smyrna Whole City Threatened British Colony Rescued (Unted Service Message.) London, September 15
Smyrna messages indicate that the fire is raging with frightful intensity, and the whole city is threatened with destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Information Confirms Press Reports Fire Attributed to Turks Rounding Up Armenians (Reuter's Message.) London, September 15
News has reached the Government regarding the burning of Smyrna which goes very far to confirm the newspaper accounts, though at present…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cotton Fire in U.S.A. (Reuter's Message.) New York, September 16
The loss of cotton by fire at New Orleans is estimated at over £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →47 Miners Entombed Majority Found Dead After Twenty-three Days Effect of Explosion and Fire (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, September 18
The bodies of the majority of the 47 miners who were entombed 23 days ago in the Argonaut mine at Jackson, California, were found to-day after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Fire Motor Showrooms Destroyed Melbourne
A fire this morning destroyed the motor showrooms of Lane's Motors Company in Exhibition-street, Melbourne, in 20 minutes. The loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Town Destroyed by Fire (Reuter's Message.) London, September 20
Reuter's Paris correspondent states that information has been received by the Ministry of Marine which states that the whole of Panderma, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Smyrna French Authorities State Was Caused by Armenians (Reuter's Message.) London, September 25
Reuter's Constantinople correspondent reports that the highest French authorities are convinced that the Smyrna fire is not attributable to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Fire Fatality Evidence of Ladder Test Given at the Inquest
The circumstances connected with the fire at Adams's Hotel on Sunday afternoon. August 27, in which Fireman William Brown met his death as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at a Jeweller's Sydney
At 11.30 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the rear upstairs premises of Fairfax and Roberts, jewellers, Huntex-etreet. It is still smouldering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Sydney Jewellery Establishment Is Considerably Damaged Sydney
A fire occurred at Fairfax and Roberts's jewellery establishment in Hunter-street yesterday. After a strenuous fight the fire brigades were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Beryl-street Inquiry to Be Held
On September 17 an unoccupied house in Beryl-street, ownes by Mrs. E. Taylor, of Adelaide, was destroyed by fire. As the result of a report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Suburban Fire Shop & Dwelling Destroyed Occupants' Narrow Escape Sydney
A fire broke out early yesterday morning at the premises of William George Landgren, draper, Parramatta-road near Annandale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forest Fires in Canada Fifty Known Dead Towns Destroyed (Reuter's Message.) Toronto, October 7
Fifty people are known to be dead, several towns have been destroyed and property damaged to the extent of £3,000,000 by forest fires in the cobalt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burglar Fires at a Woman When Surprised at Ryde Woman Not Injured Sydney
A thief who was cornered in a house at Ryde on Saturday night fired at the wife of the householder and bolted from the premises, leaving behind him a suit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sh[?]p's Coal on Fire 750 Miles From Port (Reuter' s Message.) London, October 7
A wireless message received at Durban from the steamer Langton Hall states that the coal aboard is burning fiercely and that the ship is making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Beryl-street Fire Coroner Unable to Say How the Fire Originated
Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M. and City Coroner, opened an inquiry at the Courthouse this afternoon into the cause of the fire that on September 18…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer with Coal on Fire Reported Safe at Durban (Reuter's Message.) Capetown, October 9
Reuter's Durban correspondent reports that the steamer Langton Hall, which had her coal on fire when 75 miles from port, has arrived. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Fireman's Death Contributory Negligence Claimed by Fire Board Sydney
That negligence was a contributing factor in the accident in which Fireman Brown lost his life at Adams's fire on August 27, was contended by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Australia First Bush Fire Adelaide
The first bush fire of the season destroyed grass and trees yesterday at Calperum Station, near Renmark…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →