Bush Fires Heavy Losses Caused Care Urged
Every year sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed by bush fires. In addition incalculable injury is done to young…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 31
Denman Blaze. Cottage a Total Loss
To wake and fined their home a roaring inferno was the terrifying experience of Mr. and Mrs. David Newton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Blaze. Twenty Firemen Overcome Outbreak in Basement
While fighting a fire in the basement of Linden Court Arcade, Market-street, on Monday, 20 firemen were overcome by smoke and gas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mystery Fire at Paxton Coroner to Hold Inquiry
At Cessnock Courthouse Thursday morning the District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) will conduct an inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Losses London. January 17
The total estimated loss by fire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1937 was £9,529,000. This was £l,368,000 less than the estimate for 1936…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fire Facts
Has it ever occurred to you that sufficient growing timber to have built numerous homes is destroyed every year by bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lightning Starts Fire Adelong
Lightning has set fire to grass on two occasions during severe thunderstorms recently. A fire broke out in the long grass at Adelong cemetery, but fire-fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Verdict Finding of Coroner Paxton Fires Cessnock
The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) conducted an inquest at the Cessnock Court-house to-day into the two fires…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£4000 DAMAGE Adelaide Hostel Fire ADELAIDE
Damage estimated at £4000 was caused by a fire at the Peoples' Palace Hostel, in Pirie-street, which is conducted by the Salvation Army…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Denman Terrifying Experience DENMAN
To wake and to find their home a raging inferno was the terrifying experience of Mr. and Mrs. D. Newton and family of Paxton-street. Denman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →College Fire Boys Burnt to Death Scenes of Panic St. Hyacinthe (Quebec), Jan. 19
It is now feared that 30 persons, chiefly boys, lost their lives in the fire that destroyed the Sacred Heart College here…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pupils Perish in School Fire 17 Bodies Recovered
Possibly 30 people, most of whom are boys, are dead as a result of a fire in the Sacred Heart College at St. Hyacinth, Quebec…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Fires in the One Night Mysterious Outbreaks at Paxton Cottage Coroner Returns an Open Vertict
At the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday the District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnson) inquired into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fate of Three Babies Suffocated in Fire While Mother Was Shopping
While their mother was out shopping a four-year-old girl and her two baby brothers were suffocated in a fire at their home in Largs, Ayrshire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12,000 DAMAGE Fire in Foundry MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at £12,000 was done by a fire which destroyed the Iron and steel foundry of Davies and Baird, of Brunswick, and gutted the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Recent Fire. (To the Editor)
Sir.—In your issue of the "Muswellbrooli Chronicle" on the 18th January, you reported that my cottage at Denman, which was destroyed by fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Attacked Submarine Fires Torpedo. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MALTA
A submarine is reported, to have attacked without warning the British steamer Lake Geneva in the western Mediterranean, firing a torpedo from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gutted by Fire Tighe's Hill Home NEWCASTLE
A fire which practically gutted the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barrett, in Hewison-street, Tighe's Hill, broke out yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Factory Fire Lismore
Fire destroyed the Casino Co-operative Dairy Society's branch factory at Wallanganee yesterday afternoon. With the assistance of residents of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aurora Borealis Mistaken for Fire Brilliant Display Seen in England
The most brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis for many years was seen throughout England and in many parts of the Continent,…
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