'Plane Crash Horror Set Fire to Houses Six Killed And 25 Injured LONDON
Six persons were killed, 25 were injured, and three houses were set on fire to-day as the result of an…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 42
Cottages Saved Mountains Bush Fire SYDNEY
Cottages and a wireless station were menaced by a bush fire which broke out at Wentworth Falls, on the Blue Mountains, shortly after mid-day to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thieves Set Shop on Fire Sydney
After breaking into a shop at Toongabbie this morning and stealing tobacco and cash valued in all at £8, thieves set the place on fire. The shop was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eleven Burned to Death Warplane Crashes in Street Houses Set on Fire Pilot Tried to Warn Children (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, September 5
Eleven persons lost their lives, 25 were injured, and three houses were set on fire when an Air Force fighter 'plane crashed on top of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Follows Typhoon; Hundred Dead Tokio
The five which destroyed half of the town of Himimachi, killing 100 people, and destroying the homes of 7000, was caused by yesterday's typhoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Japanese Fire 100 Casualties Reported TOKIO, September 6
One hundred persons were killed or injured and 7000 were rendered homeless as the result of a fire which destroyed half the town of Himimachi…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fire Danger
The Bush Fires Advisory Committee is launching an extensive campaign to develop a "bush fire danger" complex among country residents of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →'Plan to Combat Bush Fires Sydney
An extensive campaign to develop a "bush fire danger" complex among country residents of N.S.W. has been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Attacked with Iron Bar Constable Fires At Brothers SYDNEY
In admitting at the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Markell, that he had struck Detective-Constable Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Caused by Typhoon Tokio, September 6
The fire which destroyed half of the town of Himimachi, killing 100 people, and destroying the homes of 7000, was caused by yesterday's typhoon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Open Verdict on Fire "Probably Accidental" SYDNEY
Owen Reynolds, owner of a factory at Newtown which was destroyed by fire on August 12, told the City Coronel (Mr. E. T. Oram) to-day that the insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Destroyed by Fire Cottage at Hillsborough
A cottage in Main-street, Hillsborough, near Charlestown, was destroyed by fire at 9.30 o'clock last night. The home was owned by Mr. T. Kirk, of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →100 Lives Lost Steamer Destroyed by Fire TOKIO, September 8
The French steamer Claude Chappe is reported to have caught fire and founder near the Paracel Islands. One hundred persons lost their lives, including French…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Seventeen Dead Train Set on Fire Collision with Petrol Lorry Perpignan, September 8
Seventeen persons were killed, and 20 injured when a train crashed into a lorry carrying petrol from France to Spain. An explosion set fire to the train, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wharf on Fire at Carrington
A fire which broke out on Carrington Wharf near No. 13 crane this afternoon burned fiercely and destroyed 12 plankings before it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell Into Fire Old Man Fatally Burned Accidental Death Verdict
James Charles Croft, 74, a plasterer, of Taylor-street. The Entrance, staggered into one of his own cottages on August 30 and told the occupants he had fallen into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suspicious Fire, Says Coroner Explosion at Kilaben Bay
"The circumstances are very suspicious, I cannot see how any persons could have got into the place, but on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Caused Fire Lorry Hit Petrol Pump SYDNEY
Three petrol pumps at a garage at the corner of Junction-road and old Canterbury-road, Summer Hill, caught alight yesterday when a lorry hit a pump and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Blayney Investigated by Detectives Blayney
Two Sydney detectives, who arrived, yesterday to investigate the cause of a fire on premises in which two men were sleeping, to-day left for Neville some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempted Arson Petrol Fire at Blayney Sleeping Men Wakened Sydney
An attempt to burn an auctioneering business in Blayney failed early yesterday morning when two men sleeping on the premise were awakened by the flame…
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