Twenty-eight Dead Fires in Shell Factories Many Injured Sofia
A fire in a shell fuse factory in the Sofia Arsenal spread with terrific rapidity, causing 28 deaths…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
760 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 38
Fire at Cronulla
A weatherboard house, containing 14 rooms, and used as a boarding-house, was destroyed by fire at Cronulla early yesterday morning. Three of the occupants…
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A two-roomed weatherboard cottage in Fourth-street, Evelien Estate. Cardiff, owned and occupied by Mr. Luke Davis, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hamilton Washhouse on Fire
A washhouse at fie ear of premises occupied by Henry Owen, at 10 Lindsay-street Hamilton caught fire about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Played on Explosion and Fire Brave Bandsmen Los Angeles
Four hundred motor cars, motor boats, and aeroplanes, comprising the Los Angeles Motor Show, Were burned when a huge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Charlestown Cottage Destroyed
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by Mr. D. G. Edwards, situated on the Adamstown-Charlestown Road, a short distance from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wicket Guarded Melbourne Cricket Ground Strange Fire. Melbourne
Two watchmen are guarding the wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on which the final Test is being played…
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About 4 o'clock yesterday there was an outbreak of fire in a shop in Bourke-street, occupied by Mr. Mel Anderson, the well-known painter and decorator…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Rozelle
A good deal of damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the premises occupied by Goode's Tyre Retreating Company in Evans-street, Rozelle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rev. Up In Case of Fire
In the event of a backfire causing the carburettor to catch fire, you should turn off the petrol tap, and open the throttle wide in order to rev…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PANIC! Indian Train on Fire Mad Struggle Fight For Freedom CALCUTTA
When the Mandalay Express was vine miles out from Rangoon, and travelling at full speed, the leading bogey…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Death Trapped in Raging Flames Uncounted Victims Terrible Fire in Hong Kong Hotel Hong Kong
At least nine persons perished in. the fire, which destroyed the King Edward Hotel, here, in the early hours of the morning, while others had amazing escapes from the inferno. Some leapt from upper storeys to the sheets held below,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fierce Bush Fires S. Australian Outbreaks Adelaide
Fierce bush fires are blazing between Glen Osmond, in the outer suburbs, and Mounty Lofty. Over 100 men are fighting the flames in the hills alone. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stockton Grass Fire
About a quarter of an acre of grass caught alight at Fullerton-street, near North Stockton, about 7 o'clock last night, and was extinguished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MISSED! Fatal Jump for Life Hong Kong Fire Hong Kong
Trapped by a circle of flames in the fire which broke out in the King Edward Hotel yesterday morning, two American naval men,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Casualties Tragic Hongkong Fire Guests Trapped in Hotel Shanghai
King Edward Hotel, the centre of the business district of Hongkong, was practically gutted by a spectacular fire, of a mysterious origin, which broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Fire Inquiry
Mr. J. T. Richards District Coroner held an inquest at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday, into the circumstances connected with the destruction by fire of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gale and Fire Japanese Disaster Tokio
Troops have been called out to assist firemen at a conflagration at Ishioka, a town north-east of Tokio. A violent gale raged throughout the night, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mussolini's Daughter Visits India Berlin Suffers Big Fire Loss
BACK TO WORK.—The harbor bridge was all a-clatter with the noise of riveting this morning, following a settlement of the strike which occurred last week. NARROW ESCAPE.—The licensee and his wife and little daughter were asleep in this room of a hotel at Abertillery, in South Wales, when the wall collapsed. They were uninjured…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schooner on Fire Crew of Two Safe Sydney
The small fishing schooner Ventura caught fire and was burnt to the water's edge off Cape Hawke to-day. The two men in the vessel, David and William…
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