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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
428 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 22
In a desperate finish Cromwell gained a narrow win over Joyance and Son Domenico in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. Delightful weather favored the fixture and the track was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Manija[?], Monday. —In two hours on Monday night, a fire in Manila destroyed 60 bulldings, left 600 pert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney.—Ten firemen had narrow escapes today while fighting a fire which gutted a four-storey chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne.—A fire caused more than £100,000 damage at the Sunraysia Flour Mills, Mildura, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne, March 25.—Looters stole money and valuables from six houses evacuated during a fire in a paint factory at Balaclava today. More than £60 in cash was stolen from one house. The fire, which burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, March 25.—Flames trapped 10 firemen in the four-storeyed premises of Andrews Laboratories at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The latest type of thermostatic fire, alarm is being installed. by a, Melbourne firm in the. Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Central Fire Brigade was called to the Galena St. power house shortly after 7.30 last night. A small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A small fire that started in oil waster at the Galena Street power station last night was extinguished with foam extinguishers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne, Mach 26.—Two men died from burns received near Macedon on February 4 in a bushfire which started as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide.—A police officer told at an inquest today that he saw tons of bricks fall on two firemen as they attempted to escape while fighting a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BLINDED AND COUGHING from acid fumes, First Class Fireman Max Pemberton staggers across the street after one of the explosions which rocked a blazing chemical plant in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →History must have been made on Saturday when a fire developed in the bed of the Stephens Creek reservoir…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Geelong. — The State brown coal mine at Wensley Brae was saved from a bush fire when the wind changed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A short crea[?] electrical system caused a fire at 69 Mice Street yesterday morning [?] officers from the Control Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting was held at the Town Hall last night to discuss the shortage of staff and deterioration of Education Department property. Four motions on the agenda were carried unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 6.5 p.m., yesterday Central Fire Brigade answered an alarm from the rear of Conroy's in Argent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire caused by a household electrical short broke out at a house in Ryan Lane on Sunday night Central Fire Station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Triumph motor cycle was completely destroyed last night, when a back-fire through tho carburettor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ABOVE IS THE burnt-out wreck of a truck involved in a head-on smash with a roadster car (top) near Terowie One of two men in the truck, owned by News Ltd., died of burns and a companion is in Telowie Hospital in a serious condition. Both occupants of the small car escaped…
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