Fire at City Chemist Shop
The appearance of two fire engines outside a chemist's shop in Hunter- street caused a mild stir in the city this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1934
745 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 38
Fire Officer and Hospital Board Complaint Concerning Treatment
The Newcastle Hospital Board considered unjustifiable last night complaints made to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) by District Officer…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Old Hotel Burnt £10,000 Mentone Blaze MELBOURNE
Within 20 minutes of the flames being noticed, the 80-year-old Stephen's hotel at Mentone, was destroyed by fire shortly before midday to-day. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grass Fire at Waratah
Waratah fire brigade acted promptly yesterday afternoon to quell an outbreak of fire which broke out in long grass near the Mater Misericordiae Hospital at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New York Fire Seven Burned to Death Menace of Tenements New York, March 21
Seven persons were burned to death to-day in an East Side tenement, which had been condemned as a fire trap, bringing the death roll in fires in similar…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Oil Boat on Fire Flames Too Fierce for Aid 12 Men Missing Rouen
Of the crew of 17 of the petrol tanker Giraffe, 12 are missing as a result of an explosion to-day. The tanker had just moored…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Holocaust in Japan Fire Casualties Number 1047 Toll of Typhoon Tokio
The official report puts the death roll in the Hakadate fire disaster at 647 dead and 400 seriously injured. Half of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Fire Government Relief Plans 650 Burned to Death Worst Disaster Since 1871 (Australian Press Association.) TOKIO, March 23
The Home Office has announced that 650 were burned to death, or died in emergency hospitals, and several hundred were drowned trying to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plucky Youth Dares Flames Blaze at Young Sydney
Believing that a woman and her son had een trapped by flames on the upper floor of Mr. S. Burtenshaw's dental surgery at Young last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1000 Fire at Young Young
Damage to the value of over £1000 was caused when a fire razed the dental surgery of Mr. Stanley Burtenshaw and adjoining building at Young shortly before…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hakodate Fire Loss Nearly 100,000,000 Yen TOKIO, March 24
It is confirmed that the total loss as a result of the disastrous fire at Hakodate is approximately 100,000,000 yen, of which insurance covers 30,000,000. Of this total…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oil Gusher Fire Earth Used to Put It Out MARRAKESH (Morocco), March 24
The great oil gusher fire which has been burning for weeks in the district of Djebel Tselfat has finally been extinguished by shovelling in tons of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Rubbish Tip
Cook's Hill Fire Brigade was called last night to a fire in a rubbish tip in Union-street, which threatened to spread to some hoardings in the vicinity. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work Appreciated Fire Brigades' Display City Council Reference
In a minute submitted to last night's meeting of the Newcastle Council the Mayor (Ald. R. G. Kilgour) made reference to the recent Fire Brigades'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plunged Into Stable Blaze Rescued Six Horses Man in Bare Feet Melbourne
Plunging barefooted into fiercely burning stables at Ballarat-road, Footscray, seven times early to-day, A…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Victim Buried Racing Identities Attend MELBOURNE
A large number of friends, jockeys and racing identities were present at the funeral to-day of Mrs. Violet Murrell, who died from burns received during the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →P.w.d. Fires Bombshell Tells Council to Clean Channels Liability Disputed
A small bombshell was dropped into the proceedings at New Lambton Council meeting last night, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£6000 DAMAGE Blaze in Hat Factory SYDNEY
A spectacular fire on the sixth floor of Merritt's hat factory, Foveaux-street, City, caused damage estimated to total in the vicinity of £6000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charge of Arson Two Men Sent to Gaol Fire in Ulmarra District Grafton
Victor Roy Copas and Cecil Harold Eggins, share farmers, were found guilty by a jury at the Grafton Sessions to-day and sentenced by Judge Clancy to six…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer's Escape Trapped in Circle of Fire Cartridges in Pocket Melbourne
Mr. H. W. Gerlach, a farmer, at Walmer, near Horsham, had an unenviable experience on Friday, when he was caught in a circle of fire while burning off, a…
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