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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 36
Nineteen person, including six women and one child, all members of a roller skating racing troupe were killed and five were injured when a tyre blow-out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fireman was killed, two others injured, and a civilian severely burned when a fire destroyed the of the Hafona…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robert Hill, 26, a French polisher of Alexandria, who was severely burned in a fire at the Hafono Phonograph Factory, at Waterloo last night, died in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seven persons were burned to death in a fire in a flimsy wooden tenement building in Jersey City to-day. One woman was rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The gymnasium, tuckshop, and a large classroom were severely damaged by fire at the Parramatta High School to-night. Three firemen were slightly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three fires occurred at Cessnock during the week-end, making a total of tour for the holidays. The outbreaks occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock fire brigade has attended four fires in three days, two on Saturday, and two early yesterday morning. At 3 o'clock yesterday, a fire broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Large quantities of oil, kerosene, turpentine and other highly inflammable stocks were destroyed in a £100,000 blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When attempting to smash his way into a burning house last night, to save some articles of furniture. Mr. Alfred Horner, of Swansea, was badly cut by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated at £90,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a block of five buildings in Brisbane early yesterday morning. A series of explosions tore the walls out of the buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The 900 yards mounds will be in use at Adamstown on Saturday. This is the first shoot from 000 yards this half-year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Awakened by crackling sounds, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Craft, of Mangrove Creek, and five relatives, found the house on fire, and escaped in their night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The biggest fire in Brisbane for many years gutted a block of five buildings in Mary-street, Brisbane, early this morning. Large quantities of oil, kerosene,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. Curtis. Mayne-street, Murrurundi, was destroyed by fire about 11 o'clock this morning Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were out of town…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Paris correspondent of "The Times" states that during the funeral procession, of a farmer, in the village of Valinsolles a poacher, as revenge for an encounter…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Schoolboys dashed into the blazing Waerengahika native college, near Gisborne, to save furniture and other valuables. Only the chapel escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Just as the Government was congratulating Victoria that there had been no serious bush fires this summer, a message from Wodonga…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The wooden tabernacle in which Rev. W. G. Voliva preached that the world was flat was destroyed by fire to-day. A nearby radio station was also…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A disastrous fire, accompanied by a terrific explosion, occurred at Wauchope to-day. Damage is estimated at £8000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police at Zion City (Illinois) stated that Thomas Griffith, 10, a foster son of the Janitor of Zion College, confessed to heaving set fire to the tabernacle on…
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