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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1934

335 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 17

Fire in Ship's Holds . New York

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 2

The freighter, Koenigstein, with a crow of 50, sent out an S.O.S. to-night owing to a fire in two holds The vessel is 400 miles east of Boston…

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Freighter Ablaze Off American Coast. Serious Fire Stops Engines. New York

The Independent · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 3

The freighter Koenigstein, with a crew of 50, sent out the S.O.S. tonight owing to a fire in two of the holds. The vessel is 400 miles east of…

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Timber Mills Destroyed £30,000 Damage Caused a Queensland Blaze Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 6

One of the largest timber mills in Queensland was destroyed by a spectacular [?] at Windsor early this morning…

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Bib Fire at Maples

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 2

Detectives are "making-special inquiries into the circumstances of the fire which gutted the furniture warehouse of Maples Ltd. at South…

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A Real Mixture Rain, Wind and Fires Rough Night in Sydney a Trail of Damage Several Hurt When House is Unroofed SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 4

A gale accompanied by very heavy gusty wind, and rain squalls passed over the city and suburbs this evening arid left behind it a…

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Yackandandah Fire Brigade

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 7

At the fire brigade meeting, Mr. G. Riddinton presented a case of cutlery to Mr. Jack Martin as a wedding gift from fellow members Sunday…

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Alleged Suspicious Fire Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 4

When an inquiry was commenced to-day into a fire which occurred in the premises of Style Craft. Home Furnishing Company at Campsie on…

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French Destroyers Turks Fire Ok Them And Fire Is Returned INSTAMBUL, October 7

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1934 · page 3

Turkish coastal batteries fired on two French destroyers whilst they were steaming up the Smyrna Gulf to-day. The destroyers returned the…

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£100,000 Fire Flour Mills Destroyed Bendigo

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1934 · page 3

Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire at flour mills at Bridgewater, 26 miles from Bendigo, this morning…

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Gale Fans Fire Tile Works Destroyed Damage Estimated at £15,000 BALLARAT

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1934 · page 3

Panned, by a forty mile all hour gale a lire swept through the factory and plant of the Eureka Tile and Terra Cotta…

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Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 October 1934 · page 2

Yesterday morning a fire was noticed, at the old power house at the rear of the Corowa Post Office, The alarm was given, and the fire brigade…

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Queensland Bush Fires

The Independent · Friday 12 October 1934 · page 3

The worst bush fires that the Yeppoon district, on the north coast, near Rockhampton has experienced for many years occurred last week…

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Disastrous Fire 5,000 Damage to Factory Inflammable Material Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 October 1934 · page 4

Damage estimated , at £15,000 was caused by a fire which broke out tonight in a building in North Melbourne, used by Egg Fillers and…

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Fire in Mine Thirty-two Men Perish a French Tragedy Lyons, October 11

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 October 1934 · page 4

Thirty-two miners perished In a fire in a pyrites mine near here Desperate efforts were made to master the fire, but the air which it was…

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Fire in Factory Man Sent for Trial Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 1

Martin Howard Mellow, proprietor of the Stylecraft Furnishing Company, Campaie, was committed tor trial [?] the Parrama[?] District Coroner…

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Fierce City Blaze £20,000 Damage Caused Firemen Among Explosives MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 1

Fears that large stocks of explosives would catch alight and the live storey city warehouse of J. S. Kidd and Co.,…

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Petrol Tank Explodes Remarkable Truck Blaze Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 1

Flames 48 feet high leapt from motor truck which caught [?] Forster street, Toorak, this morning and when the petrol tank [?]…

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Cricketer "On Fire."

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 4

After M. C. Baker, captain of the Namol cricket team, had attempted to stop a "hot" shot in slips, where he was fielding during a cricket…

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Fire Clams Two Victims Baby and Girl Stories at inquest MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 1

A finding of accidental death was recorded by the City Coroner (Mr. D. Grant) at an inquest to-day into the death of…

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A Suspicious Fire What a Newsboy Saw Story at Inquiry Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 October 1934 · page 1

At a coroner’s inquiry into a the premises occupied by Herbert John Lems Crown street, City, today, Leonard James Bolton, newsboy,…

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