Stop Press £100,000 'Damage' in Mount Tourens Fire
the most destructive fire in its history, Mount Torrens suffered damage estimated at £100,000 in yesterday's blaze. Only…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
260 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 13
Ship On Fire In Mid-Pacific (Special to "The Miner.")
LONDON, January 10.—With 300 passengers and a crew of 183 on board, the liner Rimutaka (16,600 tons), formerly the P. and O. liner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destruction of Truck Open Finding By Coroner Vehicle Lost on Creek Road
AN open finding was returned by the Coroner (Mr. R. Donaldson) today when he conducted an inquiry in the Coroner's Court into a fire which destroyed a utility truck owned by Thomas Andrew Rosman, general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Raging in New Zealand
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Disastrous bush fires are raging in the Hawkes Bay district, New Zealand. Thousands of acres of bush were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →VICTORIAN Bush Fires Cost £ 1,000,000 MELBOURNE
WITH the whole of eastern Victoria under a smouldering fire and with scorching northerly winds forecast, 1150 Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Result of Criminal Negligence, Says Commissioner Melbourne
HUGE fires are still raging in the mountains in many parts of Victoria. Many houses have been reduced to ashes, dozens of others are in danger. Already the flames had left behind thousands of acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →False Alarm-of Fire
An alarm signal at the Central Fire Station shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday sent the brigade speeding down Blende-street to Anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Caught by Fires Man Dies Later
SYDNEY, Friday.—William Underbill (66) was assisting to extinguish grass fires near Springdale, in the Bega district, yesterday when he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires Break Out Afresh In Adelaide Homes Menaced Adelaide
WTTTH the temperature soaring T to 117.7 degrees at 3.15 o'clock, bush fires again broke out in the Adelaide hills today,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby Born In Fire Stricken Area
MELBOURNE, Thursday— Late yesterday, while fires were still burning in the Rubicon Forest and stretcher parties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires Leaping Into New Life in Victoria More Townships Threatened MELBOURNE
FIRES, covering three quarters of Victoria, leaping into new life under the drive of searing northerlies, are today threatening further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Bush Fires
BUSH FIRES ARE STILL RAGING in Victoria.Throug h hazardous flame-bordered tracks such as this, members of a forestry gang of firefighters fled for their lives near Toolangi. Two of their leaders, cut off from the main party, perished in the flames. This picture shows that smaller fires are still burning on the fringes of devastated areas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Homes Lost at Echunga Grim Toll Of Bush Fires ADELAIDE
LATE this afternoon it was reported that 13 homes at Echunga and thousands of head of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Fires
In the Rubicon Forest 1200 square miles of the State's best timber has been destroyed, and 20 years are expected to elapse before the forest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →14 Perish at Woods Point Grim Toll of Fires in Victoria; Death Roll Now 45 MELBOURNE
THE forestry officer at "Woods Point this morning reported that 14 people had been burned to death in the little settlement which has been entirely burned out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rain Puts End To S.A. Fires ADELAIDE
COOL weather during the weekend, accompanied by rain in some districts, ended the most disastrous series of bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Voiceless Woman Trapped In Fire
Awakened by smoke pouring into her bedroom, Mrs. Mary Thresher, of Upper Bloomefield-road, Bath, was unable to call for help', as she had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£8000 Fire Damage At Woollen Mills ADELAIDE
SPONTANEOUS combustion caused by the high temperatures during the past week and the humidity on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Bpsh Fire Peril Over Rain Falls At Danger Points 66 DEAD; 1500 Are Homeless Melbourne
RAIN at almost all danger points ended Victoria's bush fire peril—temporarily at least. Light to heavy falls are reported from most country districts. A thorough drenching will he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Danger Passed Aftermath Of Bush Fires Messages from Sydney
Melbourne and Adelaide today indicate that practically all danger at areas threatened by further…
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