Five Deaths In Fire On Speeding Train
London. June 12. — Two women, two young children and a man, members of the one family, were burned to death last week when flames wept three…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Fire at Quarry
Shortly before 10.30 a.m. today the Central Fire Brigade went to the Council quarries, where a quantity of tar had caught fire…
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Sydney.—Rex Huxley (28), a lorry driver, was badly burnt in an acetylene cylinder Are at Alexandria…
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Sydney.—Thieves broke into the Country Press offices, in Barrack Street, Sydney, last night and set alight to the building after…
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Swan Hill.—The hotel at Tooleybuc was burnt to the ground. Damage is estimated at £12,000 to £15,000. All the occupants managed to…
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Melbourne.—Police believe that a fire at the Williamstown racecourse was lit in an attempt to burn it down…
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Central Fire Brigade answered a call shortly after [?] o'clock last night to a car which was alight in Mica street, off Bromide street. The car, which was…
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Sydney.—Firemen rescued two men from a 25ft. parapet just before it collapsed during a fire at the Sydney Milling Co. Pty. Ltd.,…
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Melbourne.—A fire destroyed the administrative buildings at the Mentone race training racecourse. Records of current track gallops…
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Melbourne.—Another mystery fire—the third in recent weeks—occurred at the New Australians' hostel at Williamstown racecourse on Saturday. Just before 9 a.m., an…
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Melbourne.—A shopkeeper riddled a police car with shotgun pellets in mistake for a thieves' car. The police ducked as the pellets shattered the windscreen and riddled the bonnet of the car, but none…
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Sydney.—Several electric trains were threatened with destruction by a fire in the Flemington railway sheds early today. Firemen…
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Adelaide, July 24. — When police searched the debris after a fire had gutted a wood and iron oil depot at Bute early this morning the body of William…
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Singapore, July 28. — A fire which burned out a rubber storage depot near Singapore, destroyed rubber worth more than £A600,000…
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About 9.30 a.m. today the Central Fire Brigade was called to the Silverton Tramway yards. A small fire in some sawdust on a…
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Singapore, July 30 — Police have detained four suspected terrorists following the £1,400,000 sterling fire which destroyed a…
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A small for fire at the C.P.S. shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday was attended by the South Brigade. The blaze was extinguished with two foam…
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Paris, August 1.—Fire has ravaged 20,000 acres of pine and oak forest east of Marseilles for four days…
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Central Fire Station were summoned when a fire broke out in a chimney at O'Toole's boarding house. Wolfram Street yesterday…
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Two appliances from the Central Fire Station and South Brigade were called to the old Central mine last night to quell a…
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