Fires in Canefields Incendiarists Blamed Feeling Runs High Innisfail
Several files, which are described as cases of incendiarism, broke out on the canefields today, but were prevented from spreading before much…
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Lad Badly Burnt Petrol Bowser on Fire in Critical Condition Sydney
Arthur Manson, 10, of Enfield, was badly burnt when a petrol bowser at a garage at Belmore caught fire and exploded. The pump was completely…
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A large concentration of firemen prevented a huge conflagration at the Commonwealth Oil Refineries store at Berry’s Bay this afternoon…
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Asserting his ability to prefer the fire walking ceremony strength of faith, Kuda, Bux, Kashmir Mohammedan…
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Arrangements were finalised on Wednesday, by representatives of New South. Wales Fire Commissioners, for the purchase…
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Bush fires are raging in the Gangara district, and a big area of grass has been burned. The countryside is enveloped in smoke…
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Awakened toy the screams of his wife early this morning, Owen Clarke, 76, of Nicholson street, Carlton, discovered that a room at the rear of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old Man Perishes in Flames Blaze at Showground Bathurst
Hugh McFadden, 70, an old age pensioner and caretaker of the Narromine showground, was burned to death in a fire which broke out in a horse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A £1,000,000 FIRE Disastrous Sydney Blaze Wool Stores Destroyed. £600,000 Worth of Wool Lost SYDNEY
One of the most disastrous fires in Sydney for many years occurred today, when a six-storey wool store owned by Goldsbrough, Most and Co. Ltd., in which was stored wool valued at more than £600,000, was destroyed. The total damage is estimated at £1,000,000…
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One of the most disastrous fires seen in Sydney for many years occurred on Wednesday morning when the six-storey wool stores of Goldsbrough Mort…
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After spending the evening in Wagga, Mr. and Mrs. O. Salan, of Belfrayden, returned tome about midnight on Saturday night to find that…
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One of the most disastrous fires in Sydney for many years occurred on Wednesday, when a six-storey wool store owned by Goldsbrough,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Still Burning. I Some Wool May Be Saved Sydney
Flames were still bickering among the bales of wool at Goldsborough [?]or’s store which caught a night early. on Wednesday morning It is thought…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Wool Fire. Goldsbrough Mort's Store. Damage £750,000. SYDNEY
The No. 1 store of Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., at Pyrmont, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Million Pound Fire. This Time in London Spectacular Scenes London, September 25
This afternoon a spectacular fire broke out at the Colonial wharf. Wapping and soon afterwards hundreds of firemen, with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Huge Fire in Sydney Wool Store Destroyed Damage Nearly £1,000,000
Early on Wednesday morning a fire broke out in the six storey wool store owned by Goldsborough, Mort and Co., a[?] Pyrmont, Sydney, and…
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Wool and debris continue to smoulder in the ruins of Goldsbrough Morta wool store and minor explosion can still be heard. The work of digging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Wharf Fire Extinction Will Take Days London, September 26
It is expected that days will expire before the fire which broke out in the Colonial wharf, Wapping yesterday will be extinguished. Twenty-four…
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"At Oakhands Court. Peter McKel[?]r, sued Denis Maloney for damage done to fencing when a clearing fire [?] by an employee of Maloney's got…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at the Plaza Theatre
When the talkie, equipment at the Plaza Theatre was being charged with film for the second half of yesterday afternoon’s programme…
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