Armed Thief Fires Shot
Sydney: A man staged an armed hold up near Port Kembla. The man walked into Mr…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
368 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 19
Lorry Blaze on Highway
Melbourne, June 23.—A pettrol tanker containing 2,000 gallons of petrol exploded three quarters of an hour after…
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London, June 23: Fireproof arrangements in the British troopship Empire Windrush, lost by fire in the…
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Sydney: A barmaid ran through a burning corridor of the Commercial Hotel; Albion Park, N.S.W., last night to save the 18months-old baby of the licensee. The hotel a two-storey weather board building, was destroyed…
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Newcastle, July 1: Fire did damage estimated at nearly £30,000 to a caravan factory at Mayfield on Tuesday…
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Melbourne: Three firemen had narrow escapes from falling material as they groped through the…
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Melbourne: Three firemen had narrow escapes from falling material as they groped through the…
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Sydney: A man rescued his three- months-old daughter from a blazing pram as fue destroyed the…
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Sydney, July. 2.—A woman who was a chain-smoker had fallen asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and…
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Singapore: Police riot squad had to use a fire hose when several hundred Chinese students outside…
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Melbourne: A 37-year-old postal employee who set fire to the covering of a bed occupied by his…
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The Central Pire Brigade was informed yesterday that a fire alarm signal box had been knocked off a post at…
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Hobart, July 5.—Detectives searched T. J. Cane and Company's general more in Elizabeth Street trying to…
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Sydney, July 6. — A Crippled 85-year-old man was burned to death in a fire at Balgowlah, near…
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Munsam (Korea), Thurs.: Communist troops opened fire on an Allied police boat that ran aground in the…
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Sydney: Thieves started a fire which caused 3500 damage in a Sydney factory early today when they tried…
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More than ten new Neon signs hove been erected in Broken Hill this year, and another 16 are scheduled to be erected, the service agent, Mr. Don Gowing, said…
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A fire occurred at the back of 197 Argent Street at 11.10 last night and Central and South Fire…
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Perth: A crippled woman (53) was burnt to death and her daughter (8) was badly burnt trying to rescue her. The tragedy occurred at Chandler, a ghost town 190…
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Wollongong, July 16: Men and women screamed as they smashed windows to escaping from a spectacular…
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