Vienna Crystal Palace Destroyed by Fire
VIENNA, September 18. — A battalion of infantry with firemen and police vainly fought a fire in the Vienna Crystal palace, which was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
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Risked Life in Fire Woman's Rescue Of Two Children GU[?]ARGAMBONE
WHILE their mother was in hospital and their father in a shop in the township, two children had a narrow escape from losing their lives when…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The damage by fire at Cockatoo Dockyard is now estimated to be about £50,000. The managing-director of the dock (Mr. N…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Officers Stop Panic Fire Caused By Explosion LIMA (Peru), September 27
FIRE caused panic to break out on the Chilean steamer Pudeto (4316 tons) shortly after midnight to-night. The vessel was travelling…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While, the Rev. R. Piper was lecturing at the Central Methodist Mission last night on his work in India a cinematograph…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—When a fire destroyed the staff room of the Dumbleton Public School this morning the school records were among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£15,000 Fire Damage Knitting Mills At Flemington Firemen Pay Tribute Sydney
APPROXIMATELY £15,000 damage was caused by an outbreak of fire at the knitting and spinning mills of Henry…
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A new fire extinguisher puts out fames by freezing them. A steel cylinder filled with liquid carbon dioxide under a pressure of…
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APPROXIMATELY 1000ft. of hose were used by the Central Fire Brigade last night when it was called to a fire in Wyman-lane. Two rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reprisals By Terrorists Irak Oil Pipe Line Set On Fire Plot Revealed (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, October 4
THE great oil pipe line from Irak across Arabia to the Mediterranean coast was ignited at three places last night. Presumably this is a reprisal by…
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SYDNEY.— Accompanied by tremendous explosions as huge drums of fuel were ignited, the factory of Pabco Products Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Sydney Fire Firemen Hurt While at Work Spectators Driven Back By Heat SYDNEY
ACCOMPANIED by tremendous explosions as huge drums of fuel were ignited, the factory of Pabco Products Ltd., in Glebe, was to-day practically destroyed by a terrific fire which spread with lightning rapidity…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Destroys Motor Car Incendiarism Suspected Was Left Parked In Beryl-Street
INCENDIARISM is suspected to be the cause of the burning of a car in Beryl-street in the early hours of this morning. The car, which was owned by Mrs. D. J. Gibbons, of 418 Beryl-street, was left parked…
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A BELT of liquid fire encircling the French frontier is the latest plan for making the famous Maginot Line proof agafist all forms of attack…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vicar Fights Blaze; Late for Church
LONDON, October 18.—When the Rev. H. H. Wilcox, vicar of St. Mary's, Berwick, did not appear at morning service, a messenger was…
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The Central Fire Brigade received a call from the street alarm at the corner of Oxide and Mica streets at 11.25 a.m. to a house at 351…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jewish and British Under Fire Widespread Disorder In Palestine (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, October 17
WIDESPREAD disorder with bursts of shooting continue in Palestine. A Jewish boy, aged 11, was killed to-day by shots from brigands in the Yemente settlement, and other Jews and British were under fire in several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Fire Mystery Coroner Unable To Say How Outbreak Occurred
"I FIND that the motor car was on October 14 damaged by fire, but how the [?]re originated the evidence adduced does not enable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner Probes Mystery Car Fire Witness Tells of Quarrel Damaged Vehicle Was In Street
EVIDENCE concerning a mysterious fire which partly destroyed a motor car parked outside a house at 418 Beryl-street in the early hours of Thursday, October 14, was given at the coronial inquiry in the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Awakened by crackling flames at 1 a.m. yesterday, Mr. L. Hillyear found the kitchen ablaze at his home in the…
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