317 deaths in cinema fire
LAGOS (Nigeria), Thurs.: An official report released yesterday showed that a total of 317 persons lost their lives in…
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Is Racehorses Die in Fire
MONTREAL, Fri: Eighteen race houses were burned to death or so badly injured that they had to be destroyed when a fire swept through a…
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Pictured here are two scenes from the many taken the day of the Convent School fire when the entire school was destroyed and most of the Convent as well. (At right) Firemen âBobâ Campbell and Stan Bennett (in helmets) operating one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£17,000 Fire in Country Town
BRISBANE, Tues.: A Brisbane man was badly burned and £17,000 damage caused by a fire which destroyed five buildings in the main…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£20,000 radio factory fire
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Radiograms electric motors and machinery valued at more than £20,000 were destroyed in a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newsprint worth £16,000 destroyed by fire
MELBOURNE, Sun.: British newsprint worth about £16,000 was destroyed by a fire which swept through the holds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Burnt to Death in Haystack Fire; Another Is Fatally Crushed
SYDNEY, Mon.: Five people were killed and others were injured in accidents in NSW today. A 4-year-old boy was burned to death on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police fire at thieves
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police fired several shots at intruders they disturbed in Williamstown beach railway station last night…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Two men died in [?] at the week-end. Harry Duff Monkman. 37, of Victoria st, King’s Cross, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Workmen Escape From Fire in Bar
CANBERRA, Mon.: Workmen laying new flooring in the non-members’ bar of Parliament House were almost enveloped in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Not Guilty of Setting Fire to Wife
SYDNEY, Mon.: A Quarter Sessions jury today found a man not guilty of maliciously setting fire to his de facto wife…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →23 Girls Die in Fire at Party
TOKIO Mon.: Twenty-three girl silk workers were killed when fire broke out during a party in the factory’s assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Covering Fire Hydrants
Re-sealing of many of Albury’s streets has covered essential fire hydrants. In case of fire many precious minutes would be lost if…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presentation at Fire Station
Bars to long-service medals were presented this afternoon to Captain A. J. Whitelock, of the Deniliquin Fire Brigade and to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Set fire to cars; man given bond
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A man who pleaded guilty to having unlawfully and maliciously set five motor cars at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£30,000 fire damage at paper office
MELBOURNE, Fri.; Damage estimated at £ 30,000 was caused by fire which destroyed the offices of the newspaper,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Room at Hotel
A room was gutted and a quantity of linen destroyed when a fire broke out at the rear of the Railway Commercial Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire destroys hundreds of mattresses
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Hundreds of inner-spring mattresses, mattress materials and a truck went up in flames when fire almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Fire Kills Five
HAVANA (Cuba), Tues.: At least five men were killed and 11 injured yesterday by a raging petrol fire that swept for a…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Damage estimated at more than £20,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the upper floor of the…
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