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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
339 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 17
New York, April 18.—Fresh fires flaring up in Texas City last night brought renewed peril to the devastated Gulf of Mexico port—less than three hours after it had been announced that an end was in sight to the chain of disasters which wrecked the city and left about one fifth of its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TUMUT.—Ronald Brian Car[?] (31), school teacher, of Kunama, was burnt to death in a cottage at Kunama yesterday. The house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, April 21.—A fire which broke out in the inland city of lida, 100 miles west of Tokio, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tokio, April 21.—A fire which broke out in the inland city of lida, 100 miles west of Tokio at noon yesterday raged until 3 a.m. today and destroyed 3,984 houses leaving 17,814 homeless and caused damage estimated at 24 million dollars, says a United States Eighth Army announcement, based on reports from the Jap authorities. More than two thirds of the city, which had a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Havan (Cuba), April 22.—A group of men in a moving motor car sprayed the windows of the Notional Capital with machine gun bullets tonight while the Senate inside the building was considering the resignation of its President, Miguel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANK. — Dumage estimated at £18.000 was caused by a fire at Fieldings Peanut Paste Factory at Wollongubbu early…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Zinc Corporation has recently Installed a new transformer station as a protection against fire. On No. 16 Level (2,280 feet) near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Large quantities of wet mill residue and water are being used in an effort to seal up the affected areas of the fire at the North Mine in the 1400 and 1550 levels. Giving details of the work bring done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney, April 25.—In a dramatic attempt to save a woman who was burned to death when fire razed their hut at Hill 60, Yarrs Bay, today the husband…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thc Central Fire Brigade an swered two calls to fires on Satur day evening. Only slight damage was caused in both cases. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire Brigade answered two calls to small fires on Saturday. One was to a dwelling at 408 Cobalt Street, occupied by Francis John Mallon, where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Batavia, May 2.—Five thousand tons of rubber seized in March from the American freighter "Martin Behrman" were among the goods destroyed in a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Fire Brigade answered a call to Berriman's Cafe, Argent Street, at 6.43 p.m. yesterday and extinguished a small…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At 6.43 p.m. a small chimney fire broke out at the rear of Berriman's Cafe in Argent Street. The blaze was speedily extinguished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Complaints have been made to the police by the Fire Brigades Department concerning the manner in which more vehicles are parked in the vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Sets used in filming "Smithy" and "40,000 Horsemen" were among sets lost when fire destroyed a Cinesound…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, May 13.— Watched by 75,000 people, a fire, which lasted four hours, swept through amusement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Fire Brigade was called to a small fire in a store and iron stable at the rear of 321 Chapple Street yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday afternoon at 3.52 o'clock Central Fire Brigade received, a call to unoccupied stables at the rear of premises at 321 Chappie Street. The stables…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rome, May 15.—Twenty bodies have been recovered from the office of the Minerva Film Company following a fire which gutted the building…
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