Battle of Macroom Irregulars Fire from Caves Escape by Tunnels People's Pitiable Plight LONDON
A real battle story from Cork records the operations at Macroom, where a number of Irregulars occupied strongly fortified…
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Fires & bushfires, 1922
381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 20
Ship on Fire 750 Miles Out at Sea Blaze Among Coal Flames Burning Fiercely LONDON
A wirelss message received at Durban from the steamer Langton Hall states that the coal aboard is burning fiercely…
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It is reported from North Bay, Ontario, that 30 lives were lost in a bush fire which swept over Northern Ontario. Five towns were destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forest Fires Devastation in Canada Immense Losses Fifty People Perish VANCOUVER
A message from Toronto states that 50 persons are known to have perished in forest fires in the Cobalt district of North Ontario…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Fire Station Broadmeadow Anxious Another Site Suggested
As the board of Fire Commissioners is unable to resume the property at the corner of Tudor and Bridge streets, Hamilton, for a central fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Weston Narrow Escape Trouble From Fused Wire
During the progress of the Cessnock-Kurri football match at Weston Homestead ground on Saturday, a message arrived that Mr. David…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Damage Near Sydney SYDNEY
The first bush fire of the season was reported yesterday on the Port Hacking side of National Park. The flames destroyed hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Bush-fires Trees in Flame Sights at Look-out
The hot westerly wind yesterday started many bush fires in the hills around waratah, Lambton and wallsend. Great clouds of smoke roiled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Fires Revolver Revellers Scatter "Bad Language Academy" SYDNEY
Incensed at a drunken orgy of larrikins in a lane at the side of her house in Ebley-street. waverley Mrs. Wisdom. On saturday seized her husband's revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor 'Bus Bolts Then Catches Fire SYDNEY
A motor bus, which had been left standing in a Pyrmont street on Saturday night, suddenly bolted, and travelling 100 yards along the street, crushed…
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Some particularly fierce bush fires are raging in the hills of New Lambton, Adamstown, and on both sides of the Belmont railway line. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Narrow Escape Sawmills on Fire Blaze at Wickham Little Damage Sustained
Had it not been for the prompt arrival of motor fire engines, the State sawmills in Hannell-street, Wickham, would probably have…
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An outbreak of fire occurred last night in the Cash Drapery Company's premises in Henning's Buildings, Vincent-street, Cessnock…
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A disastrous fire occurred at 6.30 p.m. yesterday in Vincent-street, Cessnock, in the "Cash Drapery" store, conducted by Mr. E. Moel, and the premises were…
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A message from Capetown states that the steamer Langton Hall, bound from Buenos Ayres to Sydney, arrived at Durban after four days' fight with fire in the…
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The built fires at New Lambton have assumed serious proportions. It was reported to the central fire station this afternoon…
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Small boys playing with matches beneath the verandah of the infants department of Wallsend public school caused a fire yesterday afternoon. It…
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During yesterday afternoon and evening bush fires ravaged the forest country between Toronto and Awaba, where a large area was swept. So…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hot Day in Newcastle, Many Fires Break Out
Yesterday the weather was oppressively hot at Newcastle, the shade temperature reaching 97 degrees. To add to the discomfort out of doors a strong north-west…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Ladder Tragedy. Sydney
Mr. Jamieson, the City Coroner, to-day resumed his inquiry into the death of Fireman William Hamilton, who was fataly injured by the collapse of an…
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