Fire at Mayfield
A fire was discovered shortly after two o'clock yesterday morning in the boot and shoe shop of Mr. Henry Barton, Maitland-road, Mayfield. A detachment…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
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Naughty Council Admonished By Fire Board
The Board of Fire Commissioners wrote to Merewether Council stating that it had been brought under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Causes Panic Heroine at Piano Tries To Restore Order
Until flames enveloped her piano and destroyed it, the girl planist of a travelling theatrical company. Miss Ella Field, continued to play through a fire panic in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →300-Yard Flames Gasometer On Fire Terrific Heat North Melbourne Terrified MELBOURNE
Flames 300 yards long, shooting from a gasometer containing three million cubic feet of gas, caused terror among the…
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About 7.45 p.m. on Saturday Cessnock fire brigade received a call from the Heart of Cessnock Estate, where, a fire had started at the residence of…
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Early yesterday morning the Cessnock Fire Brigade received an alarm to a big fire in Vincent-street, in Peart's buildings, occupied by Mrs. Newton,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Sydney. Brigades' Good Save. Sydney
A fire broke out in premises known as 189 Clarence-street, city, shortly before 10 o'clock to-night, but the firemen prevented what might have been an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious Fire Woman Fatally Burnt Search for Man Melbourne
Mrs. Linda Pierce, aged 43, of Alma-street, Fitzroy, who was badly burnt about the body in her home on Friday night, died in the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Fire Sawmill Ablaze
The Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call at 2.30 this morning and proceeded to Turner's sawmill in Main-Street. On arrival the brigade found that a spark…
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An inquiry into the fire which occurred last Sunday morning in Newton's millinery shop, Cessnock, and which spread to adjoining premises,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charlestown. Sensational Fire
On Saturday evening Mr. D. Date, after returning home with the under 18 team of cricketers, took his motor lorry into his yard, and was in the act of…
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About 9.30 last night Cessnock fire brigade turned out to a fire in Gould Bros. timber mills, opposite the Cessnock railway station. A quantity…
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Thomas Malcolm Bamber pleaded guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions this morning, before Judge Hamilton, to a charge of having, at Kyall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pilgrim Ship on Fire
It is reported by wireless that the British steamer Frangestan, from Bombay, with 1200 pilgrims for Jeddah, was on fire, and making for Port Sudan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Francestan Fire
A message from Port Sudan states that the captain and crow of the abandoned steamer Francestan behaved with characteristic British pluck, remaining on the…
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District Officer Hillier, in charge of the five brigades of the Newcastle district, had no comment to make this morning on the statements of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on the S.S. Kansas. Brisbane
The Court of Marine Inquiry provided under the Australian Navigation Act to-day inquired into the circumstances surrounding the fire which broke out on the…
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A fire broke out in the storeroom of Mr. R. A. McKensic's residence, at Raymond Terrace, last Sunday. It was discovered carly and was…
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There were most exciting scenes at a fire at the Royal Alfred Home for Sailors at Belvidere, where there were 88 inmates, mostly aged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Insurance" Fire Falling Wall Kills Nine Men Chicago Blaze Chicago
Samuel Moore and Leo Unell, owners of a sporting goods house, have been arrested and charged with arson, which resulted in the worst fire…
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