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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
450 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 23
A six-roomed wood and [?] house owned and occupied by Mr. Frederick Williams, a taxi driver, at 120.Williams-straet, together with its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Special [?]o "The Miner.") Shanghai, February 23, 6.33 p.m. In the fiercest battle since lighting began off Shanghai Inst month the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central-Fire Brigade turned out at 8.34 o'clock this afternoon to the corner of Iodide and Mics streets in response to a call through the are…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. M. J. Baker, 124 Williams-street, has reported to Constable J. Flanagan, of the West police, that during the time his house was burning on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. M. J. Baker, 124 Williams-street, has reported to Constable J. Flanagan, of the West police, that during the time his house was burning on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mrs. H. T. Burgess while attending to cooking in the kitchen at the residence of Mr. F. H. Bromley, of Lane-street, this afternoon suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mrs. H. T. Burgess while attending to cooking in the kitchen at the residence of Mr. F. H. Bromley, of Lane-street, this afternoon suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Saturday night a grass fire brofore out a few miles from Broken Hill near the Sydney railway line. After a good area of grass had been consumed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a strenuous fight firemen made a fine save at a fire in Mercury-street. Railway Town, yesterday morning. The fire occurred in a scven-roomed wood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detective W. Arnold, of police headquarters' left for Mudgee to-night to investigate alleged incendiary fires which occurred in different parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While fighting a bush fire between Cowra and Young yesterday Robert Platt (34), of Burrowa, was killed when a burning tree crushed him…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detectives, police and watchmen kept a careful guard over buildings in the town last night. As a result no fresh outbreaks of fire were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The police to-day discovered some rags and rubbish saturated with kerosene under the stairway at the town hall. It had been set alight but had burnt out without doing any damage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven men and five women aged between 70 and 80 perished in a iire at the Sverdsjoe poorhouse on Sunday night. One man died in a gallant but futile effort to rescue his fellows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 8.12 o'clock last night to the corner of Wolfram and Bromide streets where a quantity of petrol had ignited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coolness was shown by R. Finlay, a motor-pacer, at the Motordrome on Saturday night when spirit from the tank of his motor cycle splashed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between 3 and 4 a.m. to-day the Japanese opened a bombardment on Chapei which staggered Shanghai. The Japanese directed their fire by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The position of at least one division of Japanese reinforcements is no longer a mystery here as under a heary smoke screen from planes the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three calls were received by the Central Fire Brigade within a few hours yesterday, put in no case was the damage of a serious nature, The…
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