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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
567 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 29
A tragedy occurred at Blackwall, a little holiday settlement near Woy Woy, to-day when Mrs. Hite (50) shot her elderly employer, her two-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning in the premises of the Manilla Flour Milling Company at Manilla. The damage is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The greatest fire in the history of Hull to-day destroyed the London and North Eastern Company's market extension which was completed last week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four brothers named Hullerman died from burns to-day. They were sprayed by exploding petrol during a fire in a garage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early this morning a two-storied brick building used as a produce store at Windsor was completely destroyed by fire with all its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arabs who were rioting in the Jewish [?]uarter at Haifa to-day refused to obey an order to disperse, upon which bluejackets from H.M.S. Barham…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inspector Gibson has been advised that on August 20. about lo a.m. a three-roomed dwelling owned and occupied by Albert Edward Stevens at Block…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the biggest fires in Minlaton, Yorke's Peninsula, occurred last night, when the grocery store of Clark and Virgo, and the fruit shop of N. Lee,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 8.38 o'clock last night the Fire Brigade was called through the fire alarm at the corner of Kaolin and Argent streets to a 5-roomed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a fire which occurred in an apartment house at Winnipeg (ManitobaCanada) on Sunday eight persons lost their lives and 10 were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal had been thrown on the fire last night. "The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. F. A. Sheidow on rising early this morning to supply a customer with a load of wood, found his chaff mill, sheds and stables blazing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Children clasped in the arms of their parents who were powerless to save them were incinerated in a fire which destroyed two shops and houses at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The South Fire Brigade was called through the telephone exchange at 11.14 a.m. to-day to a sixroomed wood and iron house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire destroyed the Toorale wool scour, 50 miles from Bourke, last light, causing damage estimated at [?]20,000. Over 700 bales of wool was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire destroyed the Challenge Stores early yesterday morning, causing, damage estimated at over £50,000. Several other shops were threatened. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Without food, lightly elad, exposed to wind and rain, ten girls and two women spent all Saturday night hopelessly lost in the bush between Berowra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, Sept. 2.—Children clasped in the arms of their parents who were powerless to save them were burned to death in a fire which destroyed two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 5.15 p.m. yesterday a Rugby five-seater motor car owned, by Harold Squire, of 643 Chapple-lane, North Broken Hill, caught fire about eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven persons were burnt to death when a farmhouse was destroyed by fire near Palmerston North on Friday night. It is thought that they were…
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