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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
567 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 15 of 29
Within two minutes of receiving the call the Thebarton Fire Brigade arrived at the plant of the Premier Varnish and Paint Company at Torrensville, South Australia, where an outbreak of fire had occurred. Varnish and paint drums exploded as the heat and flames reached them. The photograph shows firemen fighting the flames and an interested group of spectators…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boarding-house at Newport was totally destroyed by fire last night. Seven garages beneath the residential were also gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire which was discovered about midnight compleely destroyed a four storey building in Clarence-street, city occupied by United Distributors…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire which was discovered about midnight completely destroyed a four storey building in Clarence-street, city, occupied by United Distributors,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A boarding-house at Newport was totally destroyed by fire last night. Seven garages beneath the residential were also gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire destroyed a large business block here to-day, doing £200,000 worth of damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The homestead of Logan Downs, the largest pastoral holding in the Clermont district, was the scene of a disastrous fire at 3 o'clock on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A sudden, [?]r[?] of fire caused a stir among 1200 constituents who were listening to Mr. Foot (Liberal candidate) in a picture ball at Tiverton to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. W. J. Robbins, who was buried for a couple of hours at the Central mine about a week ago, had a narrow escape from losing his home by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twenty-four bottles have been recovered and many more deaths are expected through forest fires in Japan. A widespread outbreak of forest fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following on an explosion at the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd at Berry's Bay this afternoon, flames leapt many feet into the air and menaced a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Higgins, a watchman, noticed two men acting suspiciously near a car at Bellevue Hill last nightand he called out to them. They ran away and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty-four bodies have been recovered and many more deaths are expected through forest fires in Japan. A widespread outbreak of forest fires…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following on an explosion at the Commonwealth, Oil Befineries Ltd at Berry's Bay this afternoon, flames leapt many feet into the air and menaced a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A tennis match between the South Fire Station Tennis Club and the Two Blue Tennis Club was played on the South Fire Station court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An explosion occurred in one of the half-million gallon petrol tanks of the Commonwealth. Oil Refineries at Berry's Bay to-day, and for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The post office at Kew, near Kendall, was entered by thieves on Saturday night, and about £20 in cash and posttal notes was stolen. The building was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arising out of a statement made by the Mayor of Launcestor, Mr. R. M. Osborne, that he had personal knowledge of the fact that at least…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Southern Cross inquiry to-day, Wing-Commander Wackett said that he had had experience of flying in north-west Australia, and a fire of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The last of the Country Fire Brigades Board's horses used in the Bendigo and Eaglehawk district fire services died on Sunday at the estate at…
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