100 Men Fight Plantation Blaze Mount Gambier
Pine Plantations owned by Australian Forests Ltd., are burning about eight miles from here near the Beachport line. The fire started during a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
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Chinese in Fire
WAGGA, Friday.—A fire broke out early in a weatherboard cottage occupied by a market gardener. Tommy Ah Wah, and five Chinese…
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WALWA, Thursday.—After fighting desperately, fire-fighters at Nariel have controlled the fire which threatened settled areas, and it is now…
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A bush fire rated on a three. mile front at Bullengarook East yesterday. The are was caused by a tree falling across a break…
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A FIRE which broke out in Grave-street threatened to destroy a block of ll shops. The Kadina Fire Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Burnt to Death Richmond Fire Tragedy Melbourne
A YOUTH was burned to death and an elderly woman suffered serious burns when a fire broke out early thia morning in a…
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HOW five men narrowly escaped being burnt to death in the forest fire at the Mount Gambier reserve was described by a member of the…
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LONDON, December 23.—Lady Anderson, wife of Sir Alan Anderson, M.P., escaped from a fire at Notgrove Manor, in the Cotswald Hills,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire broke out in the Hub Theatre at Newtown Bridge shortly before midnight, some time after the evening's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Army Archives Destroyed By Fire In Paris PARIS, December 23
Extensive damage wat done by fire last night to the Hotel des Invalides, the Army archives in the offices of the General Staff being destroyed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →14 Injured In Explosion Serious Fire at Yallourn Men Treated In Hospital MELBOURNE
AFTER an explosion caused by the combustion of coal dust and air had injured 14 workmen in the State Electricity Commission briquetting plant at Yallourn yesterday, the entire cooling house and precipitation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Epsom Racecourse Grandstand Gutted Holidaymakers Watch Spectacular Blaze Melbourne
HUNDREDS of holiday-makers and residents witnessed the complete destruction by fire last night of the main grandstand at the Epsom racecourse at Mordialloc. More than 40 years old, the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire ball fell close to Cowra during a thunder storm. It lit up the whole countryside and exploded with a muffled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One-Legged Man's Tragic Death Trapped in Fire Sydney
Trapped in a biasing bedroom at his home at Sydneham early this morning a one legged man, James Sharkey (76), was burnt…
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