House Wrecked by Explosion Fierce Blaze for Two Hours
An explosion wrecked one of the finest houses in Parkes on Saturday night, and a fire which followed it completed its destruction. The…
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Fire Destroys Cottage at Tumut
A weatherboard cottage of four rooms, with all its contents, owned by Edward Ralston, and situated at Telegraph Hill, on the outskirts of Tumut,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Explosion and Fire in House Police Expected to Find Human Bones [?]Theory Parkes
It was received to-day that the police investigating the explosion in the home of Alderman L. Mazoudier last Saturday night expected to find…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury’s Protection Against Fire
During, the week end motor officer A Campbell of the N.S.W. fire brigades, inspected checked and tested the fire engine and equipment at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Actor’s Bed on Fire Thigh Severely Burned Sydney
Frank Leighton the well known actor who is at present playing at the theatre Royal, received a severe burn in the thigh when his bed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion on Launch Fire Immediately Follows Two Men Have Miraculous Escapes SYDNEY
A 20ft launch burst into flames In Rose Bay yesterday afternoon after a terrific explosion had occurred Two men, William Hulks, of Bond,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Warehouse Firemen’s Difficult Task Damage Estimated at £12,000 SYDNEY
Two floors of a building occupied by John Hunter and Sons, boot ware housemen, Castlereagh street, Redfern were extensively damaged by [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Exciting Time Police Party Has Man Fires Shots at Them Katoomba
A party of police were fired on about three miles from Blackheath late on Sunday night, and later after a struggle a [?] was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Tragic Fire Four People Dead Artist’s Home Destroyed Boston (Mass.), May 7
Four persons, including the mother and a 14-year-old daughter of John Levelle, the Internationally known portrait…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Compensation Proposed for Bush Fire Brigade Members
In Victoria there are 13,000 volunteer bush fire fighters on an organs basis. The Bush Fire Brigades’ Association is considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Steamer Melbourne
Fir broke out in the engine-room of the s.s. Carlisle at North Wharf this morning and for 15 minutes the six ship’s firemen fought to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gangsters Go to Chair Fire Men Executed Crime in America Huntsville (Texas), May 10
Raymond Hamilton, agd 25, bandit and murderer. the last man to bear the title “Public Enemy No 1,” was executed in the electric chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Children’s Narrow Escape House Collapses as Last is Rescued Fire in Cottage Perth
As the last of five children were passed through a window of a burning house at Albany last night by their father, William Baker, a dairyman,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thousands of Londoners Have to Spend Night in Streets Fire Causes Traffic Jam Amazing scenes Witnessed LONDON, May 12
Charing Cross railway station, before midnight last night, presented one of the most amazing spectacles seen in London’s history, when it became besieged by what most reliable experts declared to b the biggest crowd of sightseers London has ever known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early Morning Fire Wood Shed Destroyed
THE fire station siren sounded an alarm of fire at 4.30 yesterday morning, and in a few minutes a large number of men and women were to be seen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keep The Hospital Fires Burning Remember Wood Day- -May 24 a Log of Wood May Save a Life
Whatever may he the result, considered from the point of view of the number of loads of wood, there is something very laudable in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Shop Youth Overcome By Fumes Brigade’s Good Save Sydney
When a fire broke out in a grocer’s shop at Parramatta early this morning the promptness of the fire brigades prevented a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire on Wal[?]dric Property
Mr. Reg Star. [?] suffered a severe [?] as a result of a fire which occurred in a shed on his property. He had taken his tractor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bone Mills Destroyed Fire at Ballarat Ballarat
Damage estimated at- £700 was caused last night Mt. Clear by a fire which burned Balley Bros.’ bone mills to the ground,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSASSINATION Marseilles Crime Film Destroyed by Fire MARSEILLES, May 14
In the presence of three handcuffed tense-faced men, suspected of being accomplices in King Alexander’s assassination, their counsel, the…
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