Oil Port Destroyed By Fire 800 Dead and Injured (Special to "The Miner.") CARACAS (Venezuela), Nov. 14
THE important oil port of Lagunillas, on Lake Maracaibo, was destroyed by fire to-day. Dead and injured number…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Sabotage Suspected In Oil Port Fire
CARACAS (Venezuela), Nov. 16.— The possibility of sabotage having caused the disastrous are on Tuesday at the oil town of La Gunillas,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Bomber Over London Driven Off by Anti-aircraft Fire; Patrols No Bombs Dropped; Crowds in Streets (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, November 20
FOR the first time since the outbreak of war a German bomber flew over the outskirts of London today. It was driven off by anti-aircraft fire and a R.A.F. patrol. Thousands of people rushed into the streets to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12,000 Fire at Botany Wool And Skins Destroyed SYDNEY
A FIRE at Lupton's wool scouring works. Botany, eurly this morning caused damage estimated at about £12,000 of which £6000 was the value…
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QUTSIDE the Broken Hill Police Station is a notice issued by the Bush Fire Advisory Committee which reads:—…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called out to quell two outbreaks of fire oa electric light wires yesterday afternoon. The first call was received…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →100 Houses Threatened By Fire SYDNEY
NEARLY 100 weatherboard houses were endangered last night when a fire broke out in a shop and dwelling at Alexandria. Brigades hid a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Couple Perish In Fire At Former Footballer and Wife Victims; Bodies Burned Beyond Recognition
In one of the most appalling fire tragedies in the history of Broken Hill Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Denihan, of 151 Jamieson Street, South Broken Hill, lost their lives when their four-roomed cottage was completely destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finns Fire on Soviet Troops Much Indignation In Moscow (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, November 26
FINNISH artillery fire from across the frontier near Mainil killed four and wounded nine Soviet troops, including officers. Revealing this a Moscow communiqus adds that "this act of provocation has caused tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tragic Death Of South Couple Fire Officer Tells of Efforts to Reach Bodies Inquest Adjourned Till December 12
HOW he had tried to make a search of the burning house to see if anyone was caught by the flames but was driven back by the heat, was told by Sub-Stati,on Officer Pryor, of the South Fire Brigade, at the inquest…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—When fire destroyed a house at Stawell this morning an old woman and her elderly daughter were burnt to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Military Success Fires Raging In Many Towns In Finland Valiant Efforts by Finns to Keep Out Russia (Special to "Tlie Miner.") LONDON, December 1
ALTHOUGH many fires are burning in Helsinki, other big towns have been bombed, and landings attempted at places on the Gulf of Finland, two days of invasion have brought the Russians little mliitary progress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Planes Fire On Citizens Finns Claim To Have Shot 10 Russian Machines (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, December 1
TWO low flying Soviet planes machine-gunned citizens in the streets of Helsinki, but the first was shot down. The crew vainly attempted to escape by parachute. The second was forced to descend into the sea…
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A RISING out of a fire on Septembar 6. which resulted in the destruction of four aeroplanes and the hangar at Broken…
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A PORT AUGUSTA, Sat. BUSHFIRE which defied a large band of fighters for several days…
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One wall of the kitchen in a house at 659 Chapple Street was damaged when lt caught fire today. The flames were quickly extinguished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Resumption of South Fire Inquest
The Coroner (Mr. A. B. Collins) will resume his inquiry tomorrow afternoon into the South Are tragedy in which Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Deni…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When the report of the select committee which considered the position of firemen at Broken Hill, Newcastle and Sydney…
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Because the necessary certificates had not arrived from the Government Analyst the inquest into the [?] at South Broken Hill on the monring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barrier Miner Tuesday, December 12, 1939. Danger of Grass Fires
WITH the first century of tha season recorded yesterday comes the realisation that summer is again with us. While seasonably hot days are…
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