Drug Addict Fires Gaol
New York, Thursday.— A narcotics addict set fire to his padded cell today, and died in the flames. while…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
428 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 14 of 22
Chimney Fire
The Central Fire Brigade was called to 489 Thomas Street at 7.40 o'clock yesterday morning, where a…
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Melbourne.—Five children died in a fire that tere through the huts at the Somers Migrant Camp hospital early today. They were new Australians, aged from seven…
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A small fire started at the Calena Street power station last night, the Central fire brigade being called at 9.17…
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Melbourne—In the hushed Somers Migrant Camp today the Migration Department began its inquiry into…
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The Central Fire Brigade was called to the Galena Street power, station at 9.17 o'clock last night, where a…
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Sale—A £40,000 fire last night razed a bulk store and administrative block of…
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Pure Fire will leave for Sydney at the end of next week and more than likely will run in the Rosehill…
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Sydney.—Two meetings of metropolitan fire brigade employees reaffirmed decision they made on…
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A large shed was severely damaged by fire in the early hours of this morning. The structure, situated at the…
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New York Sunday. — Twenty-two racehorses were burnt to death tonight in a fire at the Belmont track…
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In the early hours of yesterday morning a ramshackle wood and iron shed at the rear of 529 Lane Lane…
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Sydney.— Pure Fire, favorite for the A.J.C. Derby was flown, to Sydney. He is to run in the…
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Melbourne.— A former Adelaide family of five, including a 15-months-old baby, was wiped out by a fire which destroyed their small timber house on a…
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NEIL STRATFORD (2), wandert among the wreckage caused by a £1000 fire at the bakery of his father; Mr. P. Stratford, of Coromandel Parade, Blackwood…
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Melbourne.—The worst fire in the history of Colac, 91 miles west of Melbourne, last night…
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Hobart.—Fire, driven by a westerly gale, destroyed a 50-year-old guest house, Bay View, at Dover, southern…
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Newcastle.—Arthur Baldwin (28), of Valencia Street, Mayfield, was seriously burnt on the left arm when his…
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Sydney—Three bushfires—the first this summer—broke out in New South Wales. The fires swept scrub country at Hazelbrook, Wee Why West, and The…
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Perth.—In a few minutes a fire engulfed the Perth bulk, store of Harris Scarfe, and Sandovers Ltd. early…
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