Serious Fire Aboard Ship
A PICTUREGRAM of the Hunter racing to Athol Bight, Sydney Harbor, with a serious fire in No. 1 hold…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
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Great Argent-Street Fire of 1888
THE GREAT FIRE IN ARGENT-STREET ON NOVEMBER 5, 1888, when all the buildings on the west side between Chloride and Oxide streets were burnt to the ground, involving a total loss of £70,000…
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FIREMEN playing water on the ruins of Mr. V. Pate's furniture and refrigerator factory at Unley,…
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BRISBANE,— Fire destroyed seven building to-day and caused between £30,000 and £40,000 damage in the main business area…
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FIRE destroyed seven buildings to-day and caused between £30,000 and £40,000 damage in the main business area in…
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DOCTORS in shirt sleeves, nurses and civilian volunteers, performed gallant rescue work in the £35,000 fire which swept through the District…
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WITH fireworks exploding round them three men had narrow escapes from injury when Mr. P…
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WALWA (Vic), Wednesday.—All available men have been fighting to prevent a bush fire reaching the township of Granya…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Bombs Are Latest War Horrors LONDON, March 9
"Fire bombs are perhaps more dangerous than explosives or gas," writes Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P., in "Rising Strength," the official organ…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Overcome by Fumes Firemen In Sydney Blaze SYDNEY
Two firemen were overcome by smoke in a blaze which completely burnt out two floors of a four-storied building in William-street, City, this…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Reginald Herps (3) and his brother, Trevor (2), were burnt to death at their parents'' home at Tighes Hill this…
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A SPARK from burning rubbish which alighted on straw is believed to have been the cause of a fire which destroyed the dog kennels…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—In the most spectacular fire for many years a tannery adjoining Baxter's Boot Factory at Goulburn was destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The recently constructed linseed oil factory of James Barnes and Co., at Alexandria, was severely damaged by fire…
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FLAMES which advanced at a running pace swept from Coldstream to Wandin North and destroyed two houses and thousands of acres of bush and scrub. The flames at times reached a height of 50ft. Many homes and…
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The bamboo plantation at the Council stables at the rear of the Galena-street electric light works was ablaze yesterday. Half of the area was…
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There will be no inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the destruction by fire of a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in North Broken…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Their escape cut off by fire in the lower floor, about 80 girls who were having lunch on the roof of Jones & Co. Ltd., jam…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liquid Fire Used in War Severe Aerial Bombing (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, April 12
EYE witnesses at Barcelona assert that the Spanish rebels employed liquid fire on the San Mateo front…
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DAMAGE estimated at several thousands of pounds was caused by an early morning fire in Aladdin House, at the corner of William and…
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