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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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A message from Montreal says that a slight are due probably to crossed wires at a Laurier (Quebec) cinema theatre caused a stampede in which 96…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush [?] threatened the town of Fra[?] 26 miles from Melbourne, last night, but although many homes [?] [?] the [?] fighters were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fencing and several acres of grass were destroyed by a fire at Salisbury, [?] miles from North Adelaide, at 3 o'clock this morning. Under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although the [?] a [?] [?] [?] Maclaren Flat yesterday [?] [?] [?] smouldering tree tops and logs [?] danger of a fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out about [?] o'clock this morning in the shop of Frederick Nicholson, [?] dealer, at Parra[?]a. The premises were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated at £[?] was caused by a are at Mungo Scott Ltd. [?] in Summer Hill early this morning. A five-storey brick store and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry by the coroner concerning the origin of the bush fire which swept from Alectown. 284 miles from Sydney, west to Wellington-road last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wood and iron house occupied by Mr. R. M. Tate, at Blackwood. was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Mrs. Tate was in the house at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detectives yesterday arrested two children in connection with outbreaks of fire which occurred at Balmain. They will appear before the Children's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three men were injured, one seriously, while lighting a fire which occurred in a hold containing sulphur on the steamer Queen Olga at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A riot, the cause of where is unknown broke out at two British cotton mills yesterday evening necessitating a ponce request for the and of the fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The inquiry by the coroner concerning the origin of the bush fire which swept from Alectown. 284 miles from Sydney, west to Wellington-road last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A wood and iron house occupied by Mr. R. M. Tate, at Blackwood, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Mrs. Tate was in the house at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smart work by firemen prevented what might have,been a serious blaze in a laneway off Bathurst-street, Sydney, last night. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smart work by firemen prevented what might have been a serious blaze in a laneway off Bathurst-street. Sydney, last night. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two railway [?]rs, who were charged with a breach of the Careless Use of Fire Act, pleaded that the Act was not binding on Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Magistrate Harrison on Saturday found that the big hush fires that swept South Gundagai and Tarabnndra on December l9 were caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extensive damage was done by a bush fire which broke out 18 miles from Junee during the week-end. Five hundred volunteers fought the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide experienced its first big fire for the new year on Saturday afternoon when the joinery works of Millburn and Jeffery in North-street, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A tragic ordeal marked the inquest on the victims of the Birmingham fire. Charles Pedley, exercising the utmost self-control, identified the bodies of…
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