Spectacular Blaze. Glue Factory Damaged. Homes Endangered. Sydney
Long's Glue Factory, at Alevandria, caught fire early this morning, and damage was done estimated at several thousands of pounds…
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Fires & bushfires, 1930
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Grandstand Fire Lighted Cigarette Blamed. Sydney
A fire, which is believed to have been caused by a lighted cigarette, damaged the grandstand at St. Luke's oval to the extent of about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Glue Factory Damage Estimated at Several Thousands of Pounds Sydney
Long's glue factory at Alexandria was destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is estimated at several thousands of…
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Believed to have been caused by dropping a lighted cigarette, a fire which broke out in the grandstand at St. Luke's Oval, Concord, early on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Lives Lost Fire in Queensland Damage at Jericho. ROOKHAMPTON
A serious fire occurred at Jericho early this morning, resulting in James McDonald, 53, being burnt to death, while…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Calcutta Riots Trams Wrecked and Fired. Police Open Fire. Calcutta, April 15
Savage rioting in several parts of Calcutta broke out this morning as the result of the "hartal," or day of protest in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cinema Tragedy. Fire Causes Panic. Seventeen Killed: Eleven Injured. Licata (Sicily), April 15
"Seventeen were killed and eleven injured as the result of a cinema panic here. When a film caught fire the audience…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Queensland Town Main Business Block Wiped Out. Man Burnt to Death. Rockhampton
A fire wiped out the whole of the buildings in the main business block at Jericho early this morning, and Jas. M' Donald,' aged 53, a boarder at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gresford Fire. Grazier Charged with Arson. Alleged Statement. Gresford
The District Coroner, Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M. conducted an enquiry at the Gresford Courthouse this afternoon into the circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire. Damage in Brisbane. Brisbane
Considerable damage was caused by a [?]fastrous fire which broke out early this morning at Desmond House, a large block of flats in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chad's Creek Fire. "Stupidly Foolish Act." Farmer and Wife Quarrel
The Maitland District Co[?], Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., concluded at the inquiry at the Gresford Courthouse concerning a fire which took place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lorry on Fire
The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in Devonshire street, on Saturday, at 7.30 p.m., a coal lorry in Mr. Dilley's yard being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yarra Bay Fire. Large Boatshep Gutted. Melbourne
Fire last night gutted the top floor of a boat-building shed, while the Richmond Rowing Club, which occupied the ground floor, suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Night Attire. Woman's Escape From Fire. Sydney
Fire early this morning destroyed the front portion of a haberdashery shop in Oxford-street, Waverley. A woman, who occupied a shop…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Easter Tragedy. Fire Panic in Church. Bucharest, April 18
Lighted candles at a crowded Easter service in the village church of Kosti, Roumania, not fire to the curtains, causing a panic and a rush…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Church Fire. Burial of Victims. Bucharest, April 21
Victims to the number of 110 of the Good Friday disaster, when the village church at Kosti was burned, worn burled in 40 separate trenches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Awful Holocaust Fire in Penitentiary. 300 Dead. Columbus, Ohio, April 21
At least 300 men, mostly convicts, were burned or suffocated to death at the Ohio Penitentiary late on Monday, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prison Fire. Night of Confusion. One Convict Escapes. Columbus. Ohio, April 22
The known list of the dead in the prison fire now totals 319, and 150 are so seriously burned that many are expected to die, while 100 others…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Fire Over 300 Convicts Suffeb[?] Terrible Death. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Columbus (Ohio)
A fire believed, to have been started by a number of prisoners, in the Ohio Penitentiary, in an attempt to escape, resulted in the deaths of hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Explosion House Destroyed by Fire
Further particulars regarding the severe injuries which William Ramsay 62 received in a burning house at Riverdale (W.A.) show that a…
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