Eighty-one Bodies In Dance Hall Fire
Berlin, February 11.—Rescuers have taken 31 charred bodies from the ice covered ruins of a dance hall at Spandau which was destroyed by fire at the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
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£10,000 Fire in Timber Mill
PERTH— Damage estimated at between £3,000 and £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed, the Willow Springs Mill near…
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Mr. K. Miers had a narrow escape over the week end from a fire which could have gutted but fort[?]mately did not, the bakchouse and residence. His…
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The Central Fire Brigade was culled at 1.53 p.m. yesterday to 711 Horsington Street where electric wires had shorted and caused a blaze. The fire…
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The Central Fire Brigade at tended two small electrical fires within half an hour on Saturday night. They were reported by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →54 Dead In Bogota Crash Plane Set Forest On Fire
Bogota, February 17 — Columbia now confirmed that all aboard compelsing ityf passengers and four members of he erew were killed when the…
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Melbourne, February 18.—Two attempts have been made recently to start extensive fires in Pentridge gaol, Coburg…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Golovsky Not Guilty On Arson Charge Hearing Of Fire At Commissioner's Home
Adelaide, February 18.—Israel Golovsky (49), manufacturer, was found not guilty in the Criminal Court today on a charge of having maliciously set fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Hoses Out in Press Strike
PARIS, February 18.—Picket in the press employees' strike turned fire hoses on members of the "committee for the defence…
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South Fire Brigade was summoned to the rear of Conroy's butcher's shop in Patton Street at 7.35 p.m. on Saturday to extinguish…
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Only slight damage was done this morning when a fire occurred in a truck loaded with glazed sewerage pipes at the Trades…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called at about half past ten yesterday morning to extinguish a fire which had broken out in a railway truck…
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LONDON, February 26.— Fifty thousand people, demonstrating for payment of overdue money to ex-prisoners…
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Station Officer V. Dollman is expected, to arrive from Sydney by next Friday night's Comet to take charge of the Broken Hill fire…
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ADELAIDE.—The mysterious chain of fires in the Unley district has spread to Alberton where two separate fires were discovered…
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About 8.45 a.m. yesterday morning a fire occurred at the rear of premises 165 and 168 Patton Street. South Broken Kill. They were two sheds which…
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Both South and Central Fire Brigades answered a call to a fire at 8.45 yesterday morning, and on arriving in Patton Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge Fire At Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, February 28.—All available Army. Navy and Marino equipment was rushed to Pearl Harbor to flight a roaring blaze along a…
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After years of use the small fire engine of the Central Fire Brigade has been sent back to Sydney and another, the exact replica of…
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At 1.20 o'clock this morning South Broken Hill Fire Brigade answered a call to "280 Wilson Street, where a fire had broken…
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