Open Verdict on Cause of Big Fire
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An open verdict was returned today by the City Coroner (Mr. Oram), after investigating the cause of the fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 22
Attack on Oran Made Through Point-blank Fire
LONDON, Wed.: Grim and exciting story of the attack on Oran is given by Leo Disher, British United Press war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10,000 Blaze at Queanbeyan Hotel
QUEANBEYAN.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was earned by a fire which swept through the upper portion of the Royal Hotel…
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An inspection of the damage caused by subsidences above the abandoned Hill End colliery at Cessnock was made to-day by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£10,000 Fire at Queanbeyan
QUEANBEYAN, Friday.—Fire swept through the upper section of the Royal Hotel, Queanbeyan, early to-day, causing damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrested Youth Admitted 16 Fires, Say Police
SYDNEY: A youth, aged 17, arrested last night in a theft case, allegedly admitted to police that he had started 16…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Launceston Fire
BURNIE (Tus.), Wednesday—Damage age estimated at £150,000 was caused by a fire at the wool storage and carbonising works of L.W. Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truck Damaged by Fire Case Against Soldier Dismissed
A charge against Gunner Arthur Mark Bracken that at a battle station on, September 18 he held a naked light within 15 yards of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →380 Killed in Boston Fire
NEW YORK, November 29.— When fire broke out 380 were killed at a fashionable Boston night club, the Cocoaunt Grove, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Toll May Exceed 500
BOSTON, Monday: Official estimates place the death roll in the Cocoanut Grove night club fire at 477, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Waiter Caused Fire Hundreds Were Trapped In Panic
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—A 10-year-old waiter, Stanley Tomaszwski, was responsible for America's worst fire since the Chicago Theatre fire of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Panic Blamed for Deaths Boston Fire Toll May Exceed 500
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Police and fire officials investigating the worst American fire disaster in four decades asserted that panic claimed far…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Belmont Pit Top Fire
The fire which has been burning for omen month in the Belmont colliery extended last night and reached the pit top. The old coal…
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Fire destroyed a coal hopper at the Belmont Colliery on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gases Killed Many in Boston Fire
BOSTON, Thursday: Poisonous gases developing during the Coconut Grove night club fire heavily increased the deathroll…
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NEW YORK, Friday: Chemists have reported that burning imitation leather furnishings the substance of which is nitrous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leaving Papers Escaped Fire At University
SYDNEY: About 5000 science papers from the recent Leaving Certificate examinations were saved from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Allied Fire Raid on Docks at Bizerta
LONDON, Sunday: British bombers made a fire-raising raid on Bizerta Docks (Tunisia) on Saturday night. A correspondent says the blaze could be seen 100 miles away. With the Germans stubbornly resisting in the…
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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Monday.—All along the swamps and beaches and in the jungles and sky of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Trawlers Lost Through Fire
LONDON, Dec. 9.—The Admiralty announces the loss of the trawlers Canna, Bougali and Spaniard, due to explosions after a petrol…
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