Motor Launch. Destroyed by Fire. Sydney
The motor launch Yukoner was practically destroyed by fire while lying in Neutral Bay this morning. The damage is estimated at £1000…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
805 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 41
Destructive Fire. Three Shops Destroyed
Damage estimated at £6000 was done by a fire which broke out in Vogel's Buildings, at Boonah (Q.), at an early hour on Friday morning, and resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at Stockton. Three Cottages Destroyed
Fire destroyed three eight-roomed cottages in Monmouth-street, North Stockton. The occupants escaped without injury. The total damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tragic Fire. Three Children Perish. Frantic Parents
Three children were burned to death 25th ult. when the house of a settled named Walker, in the Warragui district (Vic.) was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Botany. Extensive Damage Done. Sydney
Francis Smith discovered a fire in the workroom of the Canadian spinning and weaving Company in Botany. When the brigades arrived the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jump Through Flames Hay Stack on Fire. Toowoomba
When Edward Crosby. 41, climbed to the top of a stack of hay in his shed at night, he left the lamp on the ground below…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Glebe Fire. Driven Back by Flames. Narrow Escape of Occupants
A fire occurred in a building used as dining room at Globe on Monday Mrs. Holman and her four children were asleep on the second floor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Morning Blaze Two Shops Gutted. Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock
Two shops at the southern end of Vincent Street, Cessnock, the property of Michael Kennedy, were gutted by [?]in the early hours of yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tenterfield Fire. Three Shops Destroyed
Three shops were destroyed by fire at Tenterfield early on Saturday morning and a number of other business premises had a narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Eastwood. Produce Shop Damaged. Sydney
The produce shop of James Thompson, at Eastwood was damaged by fire this morning. This contents were insured for £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Launch Burnt. Blaze at Lake Macquarie
The motor launch Rayhorn, one of the finest of its type of craft on Lake Macquarie and owned by Mr. H. C. Fry of Toronto, was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →False Fire Alarm
Shortly before 8 o'clock on Sunday night the Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call through an alarm box on the Main Road. The firebell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Vincent Street Two Shops Burned
A couple of minutes after four o'clock on Sunday morning the Cessnock Rire Brigade received a call to attend a conflagration in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Garage. Charge of Arson. Committal at Kurri
William Joseph Maher was charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., that, at Kurri Kurri on June 3, 1924, he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flour Mill Destroyed Fire at Port Adelaide
Harrison's five-storey flour-mill and adjoining stores, Commercial-road Port Adelaide, were gutted by fire on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Morning Blaze Two Shops Gutted. Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock
Two shops, at the southern end of Vincent Street, Cessnock, the property of Michael Kennedy, were gutted by fire in the early hours of yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Launch Burnt. Blaze at Lake Macquarie
The motor launch Rayhorn, one of the finest of its type of craft on Lake Macquarie, and owned by Mr. H. C. Fry of Toronto, was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tenterfield Fire. Three Shops Destroyed
Three shops were destroyed by fire at Tehterfield early on Saturday morning, and a number of other business premises had a narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire at Botany. Extensive Damage Done
Francis Smith discovered a fire in the workroom of the Canadian spinning and weaving Company in Botany. When the brigades arrived, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatal Fire. Burned to Death at Murwillumbah
Timothy Peter O'Rourke, 32, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed his residence at South Murwillumbah, on Monday…
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