The Volturno Fire. Finding of the Board. London
The Board of Inquiry into the disaster on the steamer Volturno has given its finding. The officers of the vessel were…
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Fires & bushfires, 1914
262 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
Outbreaks of Fire
At 11.30 a.m. yesterday the Wallsend and Plattsburg brigade received a call for a fire at the residence of Mr. Krempin, Military-road. Plattsburg. The…
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A question which demands urgent attention at the present day is as to whether the present equipment and staff of the Newcastle Fire Brigade are…
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Within recent years the development of the Newcastle district has brought in its train larger and more spacious buildings, and the city in this respect is…
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The dry conditions of grass and scrub, owing to the prolonged absence of rain, was responsible for time Newcastle fire brigades receiving several calls on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Fire. East Greta Disaster. No. 1 P.T. Ablaze. the Heapstead Demolished
A fire broke out in the downcast or winding tunnel of East Greta No. 1 pit yesterday morning and demolished the heap-stead within two hours…
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There is nothing to note in connection with the fire in No. 1 Colliery, beyond the fact that the seals are holding well, and that present conditions are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Mines. a Precaution. London
The Home Offices' committee on fire in coalmines recommends that whenever the temperature of any accessible part of a mine attains 110…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Outbreaks of Fire. a Narrow Escape
The Newcastle district fire brigades yesterday received several calls, the outbreaks in most instances, like those of the two previous days, being due to the…
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An alarming call was received from a business man by the Newcastle Fire Brigade headquarters at 7.35 last evening, to effect that D. Cohen and…
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The seals are holding well in No. 1 pit, and there is no evidence of gas being present at any rate in a large quantity. No. 2 pit is so securely sealed off from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kurri Kurri Fire
Mr. G. Brown, the district coroner, conducted an inquiry at the Kurri Courthouse yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the fire which occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cinematograph Fire. Seventy-five Persons Killed. Amsterdam
A telegram from Sourabaya, in the Dutch East Indies, reports that a fire occurred in a cinematograph theatre at Boeloes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Fire. Three Women Killed. Incendiarism Admitted. Brisbane
The Salvation Army Home for Girls at Taringa, a suburb of Brisbane, was destroyed by fire early this morning, resulting in the death of three women and…
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The dry weather continues to be responsible for outbreaks of fire in the Newcastle district, and yesterday the total of the calls from the beginning of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Taringa Fatal Fire. Charge Against a Woman. Brisbane
At the Brisbane Police Court, to-day, Jane Nightingale, aged 26, a launaress, was charged with the murder of Connie Denzer, Emily Holborn, and Christina…
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Sir,—I would like you to know that a splendid bit of work the Adamstown firemen, under Captain Kimber, did last Sunday morning at my residence, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District. Fire at Weston
A fire broke out in Mr. Robert Connell's stationery and fancy goods shop. Station-street, Weston, on Wednesday night, and although the Weston Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Fire in Sydney. Drapery Store Gutted. Sydney
One of the most disastrous which had taken place in Sydney during recent years occurred to-night, when the drapery establishment of Sydney Snow,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Portsmouth
The Semaphore Tower, which said good-bye to Nelson, was destroyed in a great conflagration, which raged for six hours in Portsmouth Dockyard, entirely…
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