Fire Tragedy at Communist Headquarters
PARIS, Nov. 11.—Three people died and four were, badly injured yesterday in a north Paris fire, which partly destroyed the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 16
Dashed Through Fire To Rescue Family
A man dashed through a blazing home at Annandale (Sydney) early this morning to the rescue of his sick wife and…
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SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 (AAP Reuter).— Four members of the First Battalion Seaforth Highlanders were killed and another…
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MILDURA, Wed. — A fire on the property of Mr. Benfield at Golgol, near Mildura last night, destroyed a woolshed and did…
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SYDNEY, Wed. - The hot weather will transform the long grasses and undergrowth in evidence over most of the State into…
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SYDNEY: Fire damage cost £1,000,000 a year in New South Wales, said the Chief Secretary (Mr. Matthews) when he opened…
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Captain William Taylor, Master of the cruise ship, Noronie, which was burned out in Toronto Harbor in September, with a loss of…
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OTTAWA, Nov. 22.—Mr. Justice R. Kellock, of the Canadian Supreme Court, has censured the owners and master of the ill-fated cruise ship, Noronic, for their failure to provide proper means of detecting and fighting fires…
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A fire in the Holy Seplechure Church, Jerusalem, reported last night, was completely extinguished after 17 hours of fire-fighting, says the Jerusalem correspondent of the British United Press. There was no serious damage, nor was…
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LAGOS, Nov. 26.— Rioting [?] in Nigeria spread yesterday to Port Harcourt a few miles from Aba, where riots took place…
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SYDNEY, Sat—Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by a fierce fire which gutted the fourth floor of the…
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READING (Pennsylvania), Nov. 28.—Chickens “sounded” the alarm that saved a barn from destruction by fire…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Zoe Hicks, 26, a woman surgeon, suffered severe burns when a bottle of eiber exploded in her dispensary. In the…
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BERLIN, Nov. 29.— No lives had been lost in the mine fire at Johann Georgenstadk, the semi-official East German newsagency,…
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Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in the Soviet zone uranium mines at Johunn Georgenstadt on November 14,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peeps Into the Past Singleton- 15, 25, And 50 Years Ago 15 Years Ago (Taken from the "Argus" files for the week ending November 31, 1934.) Tar Boiler on Fire
Huge clouds of dense smoke arose in John Street this morning when the tar boiler being used by the Municipal…
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NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Fires or explosions in five widely superfetated sections of the United States yesterday caused five deaths and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—An expectant mother rescued her two children from a blazing tent near As[?]uith to-day…
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HONG KONG, Dec. 6 (AAP-Reuter).—The Hong Kong “Telegraph” says that a Chinese Nationalist warship fired on and…
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Britain's fire-fighters are developing a chemical process to make water watter. Scientists add certain…
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