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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
319 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 16
Shiftboss Charles Whitburn was under the fire of solicitors for over an hour and a half yesterday when queries as to the safety of stope 21/19 ot the North Mine were aired by Mr. W. C. Beerworth, counsel appearing for the W.I.U. of A. and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney. —Awakened by the screaming of her nine-monthsold baby boy, Mrs. N. M. Formes found that her home at Leura,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adelaide.—A member of the Fire Brigade Board and the chief officer, Mr. J. J. Whyte, were admitted to Narracoorle Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Melbourne.—A fire which apparently started in the roof of Barrett Bros. & Burston and Co., maltsters, at Collingwood, swept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Line trouble is believed to have been the cause of a false fire alarm yesterday morning. The call, from a box at the corner of Bismuth and Cornish Streets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide, March 20.—The main science laboratories at rosewerthy Agriculture [?]ellege were destroyed by fire early thie morning. No water was available [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singapore (A.A.P.-Reuter) March 30.— A B.O.A.C. pilot extinguished a fire in one of the engines of his flying boat while the aircraft was airborne yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane.—More than £40,000 damage was caused by a spectacular fire which last night gutted the Boyd building works in Nile Street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney. —Police have, arrested a youth found in the E.S. and A. Bank building at Ulmarra, after a bucket brigade had put out four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney, April 4.—Railway construction engineers used 2.300lb. of gelignite to explode 520 feet of Bombe quarry near Kiama today. A new system of firing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Effingham, Illinois, April 5.—About 50 patients are believed to have perished in a blue which destroyed the St. Anthony Hospital last night. Many others were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, April 5 (A A.P.-Reuter).—Chinese Communists are reported to have agreed to the proposal of the Nationalist peace…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, April 5. — Ten newly-born babies were among 57 people who lost their lives in the St. Anthony Hospital fire at Effingham (Illinois) last hight. Thirty-four bodies were taken from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOP—One of tate child victim of the St. Anthon Hospital Are at Effingham (Illi nois), being rescaed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo, April 7.—A Qantas Lancastrian carrying a crew of eight crashed on landing at Dubbo aerodrome at 1.15 p.m. today. The crew escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →INVERELL,.—Damage more than £40,000 was caused when a fire butted the premises of the Inverell Milling Co. early this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Perth.—Hearing, of a claim for £300,000 for damage to the steamship Panamanian began in Perth Supreme Court today. The Panamanian, a 45-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canberra.—A butcher, (H. Hayward) was rescued unconscious from a burning, house.at Reid late last night. Banknotes totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fifteen hogsheads of wine containing 64 gallons each narrowly avoided destruction yesterday when an Adelaide goods train arrived at Silverton Tramway yards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New York, April 13.—An 11,000-ton tanker, Pennsylvania Sun, and a 7607-ton freighter, American Attorney, both caught on fire after a collision today in Delaware Bay…
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