89 Bodies Recovered, But 100 May Be Dead Explosions and Fire rip through mighty U. S. ’plane carrier
Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 20
NEW YORK, Thurs.: Explosions and fire ripped through the mighty aircraft carrier Benington, 75 miles at sea yesterday, in the U.S. Navyâs second greatest peacetime disater. Fourteen hours after the…
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Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 May 1954 · page 3
SYDNEY, Fri.: A 39-year-old man was to-day sentenced to 12 yearâ goal on three charges of having set on fire two building and a truck. William Alfred Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£100,000 damage caused by spectacular fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Sun.: At least £100,000 damage was caused by a spectacular blaze which, ct one stage, threatened to engulf the massive five-floor Robur Tea building, near the corner of Little Collins street and Swanston…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Menaces Ammunition Store
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3
SYDNEY, Mon.: Four fire brigades tonight fought a fire in a Civil Aviation Department store in which there were several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire -- and No Alarm
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3
At about 11 o'clock yesterday (Monday) morning a fire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. George Howard's home in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second mystery fire on ship
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Tues.: For the second time in a week, a mysterious fire broke out in a hold on the British freighter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attended Fire in Pouring Rain
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 5
Albury Fire Brigade was called to its first fire in weeks white rain poured yesterday afternoon Fire, under the floor at Christian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£70,000 bottle factory fire
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A fire caused £70,000 damage when it totally destroyed a storage shed of the Australian Glass…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of news Chimney Fire
Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2
No damage was caused when the loungeroom chimney of the Albury Club, Kiewa street, caught alight at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Griffith
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2
A young married couple lost all their possessions in a fire which completely destroyed their home in Griffith recently. They are Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire under control
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 16
LOS ALAMOS (New Mexico) Mon. : Soldiers and Indians, aided by a fortunate shift in the wind threw a lire line around a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →£250,000 Fire in Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, Tues. : Fire caused damage estimated at £250,000 to premises of seven firms in Oxford street and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£2000 limit on fire damage claims on N.S.W. Railways
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 20
SYDNEY, Tues.: The State Government proposes to place a limit of £2000 on claims against the Railways Department for bush fire damage, State Cabinet today approved amendments to the Government Railways Act to limit the departmentâs liability…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Police Fire on Men
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police fired warning shots at several men after a chemistâs shop had been broken into in Main road, St. Albans,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on R.a.n Destroyer
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 6
SYDNEY. Tues.: Fire broke our [?] on the destroyer Voyager. [?] out at Cockatoo Dock. The fire was confined to cork…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Border district fire damages award for £45,000 stands
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tues.: The Full Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by the N.S.W. Railways Commissioner against £45,000 fire damages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burnt-out Hotel Bar
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 8
Twisted sheets of iron and charred walls were all that remained of the bar of the Burrumbuttock Hotel yesterday morning after fire had swept through the building…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gave the alarm in hotel fire
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 2
This is the four-year-old girl who, early yesterday morning, gave the alarm when the Burrumbuttock Hotel was destroyed by fire. She is Catherine Dutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Dutton, who was sleeping in a room across the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl’s cries save lives in hotel fire
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 20
Cries of a four-year-old girl saved the lives of her parents and sister when the Farmersâ Inn Hotel at Burrumbuttock was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Fire in Home
Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 2
Wodonga Rural Fire Bridage was called lo a fire in a home midway between Albury and Wodonga on the âmad mileâ…
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