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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
552 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 28
A Riga message states that a girl who was dismissed from a cotton mill confessed after arrest that in revenge she set fire to the mill, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Riga message states that a girl who was dismissed from a cotton mill confessed after arrest that in revenge she set fire to the mill, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A mysterious outbreak of fire completely destroyed tlie Colo Vale railway station ou the main southern line near Mittagong late on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire causing damage estimated at, £500,000, destroyed the greater part of the Imperial Cold Storage Company's premises on the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A North Bay message states that 47 men are believed- to be dead through a fire in the Hollinger coal mine, Ontario, Canada. Smoke is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Only the fact that the houses in its course were protected by firebreaks prevented a big bush fire, which swept the full length of the gully skirting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although 300ft. of film was alight, and a serious fire was threatened, hundreds of people in Hurlstone Park Theatre were kept in ignorance of it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 7.58 o'clock last night the Fire Brigade was called through the telephone exchange to 428 Cobalt-street where a three-roomed wood and Iron…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vengeance by Tonkingese laborers has been advanced as the cause of a disastrous fire and explosion in which nine persons perished at Vila, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message from Timmins, Ontario, states that the total death roll in connection with the fire at the Hollinger gold mine (not coal mine as reported…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. H. L. Russack, a British wireless operator and meteorologist to the Government in the New Hebrides, in a letter to his father in Adelaide, says:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"This is the most extraordinary case in my experience," said the Isleworth coroner at the inquest on Mrs. Elizabeth West (49) who, though her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out in a building at Croydon early this morning. The structure consisted of three shops, one of which was destroyed, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four weatherboard shops and premises in the boulevard at Woy Woy were totally destroyed by fire. The Woy Woy Hotel was saved with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Barellan a big fire broke out shortly after midnight in H. Smith's business premises in which are situated the "Leader" newspaper office,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer City of Bath, with 30,000 cases of petrol aboard, returned to Dunedin yesterday in consequence of a fire in No. 2 hold. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bert Hinkler, the Australian airman, who is engaged in a solo flight from London to Australia, has arrived here. He landed on the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bert Hinkler, the Australian airman, who is engaged in a solo flight from London to Australia, has arrived here. He landed on the new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A little before 10 o'clock on Saturday night the Fire Brigade was called to the residence of Constable T. C. Davis at 171 Mica-street, but on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A mysterious fire occurred at the residence of Mrs. T. Kerin, at Mount Gambier, last night. The blaze was noticed in a sleep-out room at the side…
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