Fire in City Flat Building
Three rooms on the first floor of the Jesmond Flats, at the corner of Barker and Ordnance streets. The Hill, were damaged by a fire that broke…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 36
Many Killed Moors Fire on Spaniards Pitched Battle in Tetuan (Australian Associated Press.) GIBRALTAR, November 15
Sixty Moors and 20 Spaniards were killed and scores were wounded in a riot at Tetuan (Spanish Morocco) yesterday. Fifty persons were arrested and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Furniture Damaged Fire in Barker-street Flats
Damage was practically confined to one room and the roof of the building when fire broke out in Jesmond Flats, Barker-street, Newcastle, yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Started Fires To Give Brigade Work San Juanpr (Porto Rica). November 15
Andreo Montanez, the fire chief of Humacao, has been charged with having set fire to houses in order to provide work for members of his brigade, who…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Factory Fire Explosion at Leichhardt Flying Debris Menaces Firemen Sydney
Fire, followed by on explosion, destroyed the premises of the Australian Lithyte Explosive Company at Leichhardt to-day. The flames spread to a house on the…
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Stockton fire brigade was called out yesterday afternoon to check an outbreak which spread over five acres of grassland between Stockton Mental…
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Driver Hughes was slowing down his Manchester-to-Wigan passenger train at Walkden station recently, when it backfired and flames…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Foam Gas Suppresses Awkward Fire Sydney
Special foam gas, which freezes flame, and chemical sprinklers were used by firemen to-day to quell a fire that threatened part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Thousands of Coins Go Into Furnace Fire Sydney
Money meant nothing to five men in a galvanised iron shed at Redfern. They rummaged with shovels among sparkling heaps of coin and tossed hundreds of florins and shillings into a crucible…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Saved Just in Time From Fire Parents' Dash with Children Sydney
A man and his wife were faced with an awful dilemma early to-day when their weatherboard cottage was ablaze from front to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Hotel Fire in America Society Girls in Peril New York
Merle Webb, the Naval Academy boxing coach who coached four Olympic teams, had a narrow escape from death at Annapolis when 61 guests, including…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Talk Puts Out No Fires
THE Brussels Conference fizzles out. It is a great disappointment to the people who desire peace, yet it is an object lesson in realism. Such conferences, unless their debates are based upon a determination to go further than words, are useless and had better not be called. The hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Mystery Fire in Ballarat Melbourne
The second mysterious fire in Ballarat in the post fortnight occurred to-day when a 50-year-old wooden house in Dawson-street South, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →King Under Fire at Jutland London
The King was perched on top of a turret in his ship at the Battle of Jutland when shells began to fall close…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Baby's Bedroom Child Is Badly Burned
William Robertson, aged 14 months, of Brooks-st., Bar Beach, was extensively burned about the body when a fire broke out in his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baby's Death Fire in Bedroom of Home Smoke Seen by Neighbour
William Robertson, 14 months, who was severely burned when a fire occurred in the bedroom of his home in Brook-street, Bar Beach, yesterday morning, died in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lightning Blamed for Mill Fire Perth
The Adelaide Timber Company's mill at Wilga was destroyed by lire early to day. Between 30 and 40 men were employed there. It is believe the outbreak…
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New Lambton and Hamilton fire brigades were called to a house in Carrington-parade, New Lambton, late yesterday afternoon, to extinguish a fire which had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Destroys Big Tannery in Melbourne Melbourne
Hair an hour after the caretaker. James Simpson, had lighted the boiler fires at 6 a.m. to-day in the Collingwood tannery of John Carew and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Menace Victorian Forests Swept Volunteers Work Well Melbourne
Sweeping the slopes of Mount Macedon before driving northerly winds, a fierce bush fire is destroying acres of forest and scrub…
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