Aged Man's Fall Into His Camp Fire Wanders Into Bush Cairns
Blinded when he fell into his camp fire at White Rock, near Cairns, Herbert Foote (71), wandered away seeking assistance and was lost in the bush…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
567 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 18 of 29
Big Russian Fire Over 5000 HOMELESS (Special to "The Miner.") Riga, July 12
A great fire in the district of Kushvinsk (Eastern Russia) to-day destroyed 1000 houses. More than 5000 persons are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Fires Wakehouse and Factory Destroyed This Morning Melbourne
The soft goods warehouse of O. Gilpin Pty. Ltd., Malvern, and the furniture factory of C. Duncan. North Fitzroy, were destroyed by fire early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gillingham Park Fire 2000 Mourners Follow Coffins of the Victims (Special to "The Miner.") London, July 17
"With muffled church bells pealing across the hushed valley of the Medway, and naval and Salvation Army bands playing funeral marches, 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Central Mine
At 7.57 last night the Fire Brigade was called to the Central mine by the auiomatic alarm. It was found that a fire had broken out underneath the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Policeman Fires Shots in an Adelaide Street Alleged Burglar Arrested Adelaide
Constable Schulze when on duty in Coromandel place early on Sunday morning heard a sound of breaking glass and saw a man running away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne City Fire Damage About £400,000 Melbourne
The premises of Payne's Bon Marche, Bourke-street were destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The flames spread with remarkable rapidity and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fire in Canada Business Section of Oil Town Destroyed (Special to "The Miner.") Edmonton (Alberta), July 21
Practically the entire business section of the oil town of Wainwright. 127 miles east of here was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at South Broken Hill
The South Fire Brigade responded to a call to a fire in a five-roomed wood-and-iron house situated in Southstreet. near Hebbard-street, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Fighting Demonstration To-day by South Mine Staff
At the South mine this afternoon an interesting demonstration was given in the use of underground fire fighting appliances. Over 40 mining officials and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Melbourne Fire the Employees' Wages Are to Be Continued Melbourne
A total of 529 persons have been thrown out of employment as a result of the destruction by fire of Payne's Emporium. The manager addressed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in Sydney Heavy Damage Reported Sydney
A fire occurred at 10.30 o'clock this morning at the Metropolitan Ice Cold Storage Company's premises in Harrisstreet, city. The fire brigades were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigades' Art Union £192 2/ for Hospital Sydney
The Broken Hill and District Hospital will receive £192 2/ as the result of the recent "Queen" competition conducted by the fire brigades. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gillingham Park Fire Death From Misadventure Is the Coroner's Finding (Special to "The Miner.") London, July 23
At the inquest in connection with the Gillingham Park fire the coroner, in summing up, said that obviously flares had been fired in the wrong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boarding-house Fire Incendiarism Suspected by the Goulburn Police Search for Two Young Men Goulburn
Following the destruction, of Mrs. Northam's boardinghouse by fire early on Saturday morning, the police are scarcning for two young men who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Melbourne Fire Damage £40,000 Melbourne
Collier and Sons warehouse in Flinders lane was partly destroyed by fire last night. The damage is estimated at £40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Sydney Fire Shoe Store Destroyed Heavy Damage Caused at the Ambassadors Sydney
A fire broke out shortly before midnight last night in Macnaught's shoe store. Pitt-street. Sergeant Conlin said he could have subdued the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at the Ambassadors No Panic Among Dancers Sydney
The police report on the fire at the Ambassadors denies that there was a panic among the dancers. The police compliment the firemen on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Plane Catches Fire at a Great Height Occupant Saved by His Parachute Brussels, July 30
Flying over Brussels at a great height to-day, an army aeroplane caught fire. The pilot made a parachute descent with his clothes in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Cornish-street
At 7.55 o'clock last night the Fire Brigade was called through the telephone exchange to the home of Walter Richard Kennewell at 242…
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