13 Lose Lives In Disastrous Fire In Glasgow Firemen Recover 11 Bodies London
Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 3
AT least 13 persons—all girls—lost their lives while 24 people, including two firemen, were injured in a disastrous fire which turned a large fashion house in Glasgow into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S25,000 Fire in Paint Store
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 2
MELBOURNE Fri.: Ba[?] most destructive fire fee years today gutted the two storey building occupied by Stanfield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Policeman Fires Shots Into Tyre of Car
Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 6
MELBOURNE, Sun.: A police constable clang to the aide of a speeding ear and fired shots into a rear tyre until the car…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£3 Million Racecourse Fire Inglewood
Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 12
The California police are searching for a man whom they believe started the disastrous fire that reduced the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Chimney on Fire
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 6
The wail of the fire siren had its usual electrifying effect on Wednesday night, when a few minutes before eight o’clock the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bus, Fire Wagon Collide 60 Passengers Escape with Shock
Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 May 1949 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Sixty passengers in a bus suffered shock, but escaped other injury, in a head-on collision…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Racehorses Die in Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 May 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sunday : Badly burned in a fire which yesterday destroyed racing stables at Ascot and killed three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Firemen Fight Ship Fire
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 11
MELBOURNE, Mon. : With smoke and sparks pouring: from the funnel and with the side plates buckling from the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Near Howlong Children Run Mile for Help
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 5
The homestead on “Boggley Wallah,” a property owned by Mr Thomas Doolan, of Howlong, has been completely destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Costs Causing Concern
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 2
"Increased cost of Fire Brigade administration is causing local government bodies some concern", said the Mayor (A[?]d. Bunton) upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Empire Night Blaze on Monument Hill
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 1
Flames leapt high into the sky last evening when the city bonfire on Monument Hill was lit. Around it gathered thousands of people. (Story page 3.)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car on Fire in Albury
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 2
A car owned by Mr Arthur Lindsay Patrick Danaher, of Upper Indigo, caught fire while parked outside the Mechanics'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.N.A. Bristol Damaged By Fire
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 May 1949 · page 11
MELBOURNE, Wed.: One of ANA's three Bristol freighter aircraft which were purchased recently at a cost of £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fires Started by Soldier Caused £143,000 Damage Canberra
Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 1
DAMAGE to Commonwealth property in Japan by fires started by an ex-sol -dier, Prank Loyal Weaver, amounted to £143,805/2/9, the Minister for Army (Mr Chambers) revealed in a written reply in the House of Representatives today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some Famous Fires in History
The Corowa Free Press · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 3
One of the greatest fires that took place in modern times, was that which broke out in San Francisco after the earthquake of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at an Albury Hotel
Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 2
Floor boards in the bar parlor in the Gloucester Hotel were lifted early on Saturday morning to enable a garden hose to be played…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys Shanty-town
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1
CAPE TOWN, Mon.: Hundreds of African natives were left homeless yesterday as a result of a fire which swept…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Firemen Injured Fighting Fire
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 4
SYDNEY, Mon.: Two firemen were injured, one seriously when a 30ft. brick wall collapsed while they were fighting a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£25,000 Fire in Shopping Block
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 5
BRISBANE, Mon.: Damage estimated at £25,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a shopping block at Crow’s Nest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cease-fire Near in Indonesia
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 15
BATAVIA, Tues.: The first step towards a cease fire in Indonesia was taken today when Dutch and Republican…
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