Oil Fire Death Roll
SINGAPORE, Wednesday (A.A.P.-Reuter).— Deathroll in the Pulau-Samboe Island oil blaze, rose to eight yesterday…
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Doukhobors' Village On Fire
NELSON (British Columbia), Friday (A.A.P.).—A report reaching here late yesterday said that the village of Krestova…
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QUEBEC, Monday (A.A.P.).—At least eight people lost their lives in a fire which raged for 16 hours before being brought…
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An officer and nine men from the Wollongong Fire Brigade answered an alarm to fight a blaze at the Wollongong Gasworks…
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A fire which broke out in section of the new gas works at Wollongong abort 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon sent columns…
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The oldest fire in the United States has been blazing brightly for 161 years—the past 125 years, in a humble log cabin in the North Carolina mountains…
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CHICAGO, Tuesday (A.A.P.)—The firemen's strike against four big railway companies ended its fifth day yesterday with no sign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Israeli Fighters Fire On U.K. Plane
TEL AVIV, Thursday (AAP)—Israeli fighter planes fired on a British Sunderland flying boat yesterday, and forced It to…
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NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.).â A spectacular fire broke out yesterday at the scene of the devastating explosion on Friday night at South Amboy, New Jesey…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—A doctor and a nurse were burned to death when trapped by a fire at a London hospital…
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A short-circuit in the fuse-box caused a minor fire at Pollock's furniture store, Crown Street, Wollongong, last night…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men with their clothes afire and screaming in agony were dragged by workmates from a…
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Scotia fires in 1949. Six major blazes raged yesterday in a 200-mile front and planes equipped with…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Fifteen New Australians were injured, four seriously, and about 250 others rendered homeless, when a fire razed a hutment at the Brooklyn Migrant Centre early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire At Presbytery At West Wollongong
Curtains brushing against a radiator set fire to a room in the Roman Catholic Presbytery at West Wollongong last night…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Two women, two young children and a man, believed to have been members of the one family, were burned to death last night when flames swept three coaches of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Birds Terrified by Fire Near Stuart Park
Pandemonium broke loose in what remains of Stuart Park "zoo" yesterday when firemen dashed into a blazing garage to rescue a car from a fire which destroyed over £600…
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A Corrimal shopkeeper claims that an insufficient supply of electricity caused a fire which could have destroyed his…
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A building containing incubators, brooders and other poultry hatching equipment valued at over £1000, the property…
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ANCHORAGE (Alaska), Monday (A.A.P.).—Huge, uncontrolable forest fires wore raging unchecked in northern Yukon and…
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