Glasgow Fire Quarter of a Million Damage LONDON, Sunday Night
An enormous fire broke oui in Argyll-street, Glasgow. It is estimated that damage was caused to the extent of £250,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1921
280 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
Fire Engine Bride Alarm Calls to Wedding
Fire alarms were sounded at Windsor for an unusual purpose, Believing they had to attend an ourbreak, members of the brigade answered the call quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer's Cargo on Fire. Fremantle
The cargo of the steamer Gorgon, of the Alfred Holt Line, was found to be on fire when the vessel was 100 miles from Brooke, bound for Fremantle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broken Tryst Set Girl's Home on Fire
Charged with setting fire to a cottage at Ashford, in which nine people were asleep. Charles Smith, 19, an engineer, was remanded at Feltham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mountain of Fire
Even before the year A.D. 79, when the elder Pliny lost his life while observing the first recorded eruption of Vesuvius, volcanoes had been a source…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heat and Drought Europe's Double Affliction Moor Fires Cause Alarm Conventions Go by the Board London
Though the drought is likely to he remembered as the worst in British records, its seriousness is largely forgotten in the sufferings caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Fiend Waterloo Factory Chinamen in Peril SYDNEY
There were exciting happenings in James-street, Waterloo, this morning, when John Hoe and Co.'s furniture factory and five workshops, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Newcastle. North Coast Company's Shed
Shortly before ten o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the North Coast Company's large shed on the wharf. Mr. W. Tuckwell, enginedriver at Messrs. S…
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Sir,—Why is it, when there is a fire in Newcastle, headquarters call out a brigade three to four miles out of Newcastle when Merewether is only one mile…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oil Fields Fire Ignited by Lightning Big Area Menaced Vancouver
Reports from Mexico City state that the Amatlan oilfields are borning, having become ignited by lightning. The damage amounts to several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire in England Big Area Devastated Picnickers Cause Blaze LONDON
The drought and picnickers making tea were responsible for a huge fire near Banchory, Aberdeenshire, extending for fully 10 miles. Thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mauretania Afire Southampton Blaze LONDON
A fire broke out in the Cunard liner Mauretanian, at Southampton…
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A serious fire occurred on board the s.s. Mauretania at Southampton. At one time the gigantic Cunarder was in danger of sinking, owing to tons of water the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Star on Fire
Worlds, with probably millions of human beings like ourselves, have been destroyed and turned into glowing gas by a stupendous conflagration in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hated Bosses Lad Starts Fire Blaze at Warehouse SYDNEY
"I would like to see the place burnt down I don't like of care a bit for bosses." This extraordinary statement is on police records as having been made by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hall for Ambulance Wallsend Request Fire Board or Council?
A deputation, comprising Messrs. Fogo. Hope. Nash and Scott, representing the executive of the Wallsend branch of the St. John Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Railway Workshops
At twenty-five minutes to seven o'clock last evening the headquarters station of the Newcastle fire brigades received a call through the Merewether-street signal box…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on a Steamer
The steamer Wolverene has arrived at Calcutta from San Francisco, and reports that it narrowly escaped destruction in the ocean through inflammable material…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District News. Adamstown. Outbreak of Fire
At a-quarter to ten o'clock last night the Adamstown Fire Station received a call to Morgan-street, Adamstown, Where an outbreak had occurred in a shed 15 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Damp Test
A new invention called at methanometer, which is capable of automatically recording a fractional percentage of firedamp, has passed the final tests at the Home…
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