Mexican Holocaust 60 Perish in Forest Fire Vancouver (B.c.)
A Mexico City message states that 40 children and 20 adults are reported to be dead as the result of a forest fire which swept tho village of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
760 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 38
Sixty Lives Lost Tragic Forest Fire Mexican Village Swept Mexico City
Forty children and 20 adults are believed to have lost their lives in a forest fire which swept the village of Xochilapa, in Guerroro State, on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Gunboat Escort Under Fire in Chinese Waters Australia's Protest No Reparations Reduction "London Gratified" Speaking the Empire's Mind? LONDON
British diplomatic circles, it is understood, are highly-gratified with Australia's strong protest against the proposal that Germany's war reparation payments should be placed on a basis distinctly unfavorable to Great Britain and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DAMAGE £2000 West Australian Fire Perth
A fire, which broke out in the premises of Trobe Bros., tailors, early this morning, caused damage estimated at £2000, Stock show, and fitting round…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Taxi on Fire
Through petrol coming into contact with an electric spark a taxi, driven by Frank Donaldson, and owned by G. W. King, caught alight in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mysterious Fires Indian Workshops Communists Suspected Calcutta
Deliberate attempts are suspected by Communists to destroy the big railway workshops at Lahore. Mysterious outbreaks of fire led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£10,000 Damage Melbourne Fire Melbourne
Fighting their way through clouds of dense smoke, several girls had narrow escapes from death during a fire at Selfridge's boot shop, in Block Arcade,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ninety-one Persons Killed in Terrible Hospital Disaster Floating Death Nurses Jump from Blazing Building Poison Gas, Fire and Explosion Hospital Wards Choked With Dead and Dying CLEVELAND (Ohio)
Poison gas, fire and explosion combined to-day, in the most terrible disaster that the city has known, to bring death in many horrible forms to 91 persons. The scene of the disaster was a four storey brick and steel hospital clinic, controlled by Dr. George Crille, a famous physician, and the noted institution for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Insurance Spreading Risks
In reviewing the work of the great British fire insurance companies it is essential to remember that their activities are world-wide. This widespread…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trapped in a Train New York Tube Fire
Nine hundred New York men and women going home from work on the night of February 20 were caught in a stopped and burning train in the tube under the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deadly Fumes American Hospital Disaster Fire Follows Explosions Heavy Casualties Among Patients (Australian Press Association.) CLEVELAND (Ohio)
Three explosions yesterday wrecked the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. It is reported that 95 are known to be dead, and possibly 100 injured. It is estimated that there were 163 patients in the hospital, besides numerous officials…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arson Alleged Fire in Melbourne Melbourne
Two top-stories of the four-floored hardware promises of C. J. White and Snos, Pty., Ltd., in Little Bourke-street, were gutted by fire to-day. The lower floors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Choking Fumes Firemen Overcome "It Was Hell" Heroism at Sydney Fire SYDNEY
"It was hell," said one of the firemen who were admitted to Sydney Hospital last night after being overcome by fumes and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Blaze Averted
A serious blaze was narrowly averted at Manning Chambers, Pitt-street, Sydney, on Saturday night. The caretaker, on making his last inspection after 11 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Just in Time Sleeper Rescued Stockton Blaze
Breaking his way into the home of Harry Hamilton Joyce, aged about 38 years, a dentist, at 39 Dunbar-street, Stockton, early on Saturday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Queen Concert
Anticipating a good programme, there was a large attendance at the sacred concert held in the Victoria Theatre last night, the proceeds being in aid of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mail Car on Fire
While passing through Middle Camp on Tuesday the mail service car caught on five, but owing to prompt assistances by the residents the flames were got under…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Timber Strike Another Fire Arson Believed Shattering Explosions Melbourne
Porta and Son's timber mills at Fairfield were swept by the early to-day, damage being done to the extent of £60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tragic Spectacle 'Plane on Fire Two Airmen Killed Vienna
Spectacular and tragic was the mishap to a Fokker cargo-carrying 'plane flying from Budapest to Vienna yesterday. Engine trouble developed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton Outbreak of Fire
There was an outbreak of fire on Monday at the residence of Mr. Arthur Lowe, Redbournberry. It occurred in some out-buildings, which were destroyed, although…
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