Colliery Fire Fumes At Cessnock
At last night's meeting of Cessnock Council the Mayor (Alderman J. Brown) reported that West Cessnock residents had complained about…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 30
Mad Scenes Of Horror, Panic In Big Chicago Fire
CHICAGO, Thursday: Scenes of horror and panic were witnessed when 12 floors of the La Salle Hotel were swept by a fire of unknown origin late last night. The death roll has already reached 59 and firemen expect to find…
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CHICAGO, June 5. A.A.P.—The worst hotel fire in the history of Chicago occurred early this morning. The death roll, not yet known exactly, is placed at 52 persons. Hundreds of others were injured…
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CHICAGO, June 6. A.A.P.—The 22-story La Salle Hotel, in which 58 people lost their lives yesterday when a fire swept through it, had only two fire escapes, both on one side of the hotel, says the New York "Herald-Tribune." The…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Fire threatened one of Sydney's largest timberyards to-night. It started when an…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Artificial respiration and oxygen treatment failed to revive an elderly woman who suffocated when her bed caught fire at…
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CHICAGO, June 7. A.A.P.—The belief that varnish and lacquers on wood panelling contributed most to the smoke that suffocated many of…
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NEW YORK, June 9. A.A.P.—At least 15 persons lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the six-story Canfield Hotel at Dubuque (lowa) It was the second disastrous hotel fire in…
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DUBUQUE (Iowa), June 10. A.A.P.—Twenty-three of the 129 guests who were registered at the Canfield Hotel at the time of the disastrous fire on Saturday remain unaccounted for…
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A family, lost all its possessions, including clothing and furniture, when a weatherboard cottage, occupied by Mr. W. Pitman,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— When a fire broke out in the kitchen of her neighbour's home at Oatley, Mrs. Elsie Higgins rushed in and saved a…
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Aremen climbed 80ft. extension ladder to play a stream of water into a burning chimney at the Pacific Hotel, Scott-street, yesterday…
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Firemen from Cook's Hill used the 80ft. extension ladder to direct a stream of water down a burning chimney at the Pacific Hotel, Scott-street,…
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MELBOURNE.—Shots were fired by a police wireless patrol early to-day in a chase after the theft of a taxi in the city…
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Mrs. Alice Date and other occupants of a weatherboard cottage at Raymond-street, Homeville, lost all their possessions yesterday morning when…
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Fat in a dish in the oven flared up yesterday at the home of Arthur Priestley, of Boscawen-street, Wallsend Wallsend Fire Brigade was…
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Further complaints of the nuisance caused by burning refuse at Mayfield West garbage dump were made at a meeting of Mayfield West…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Smoke poured through the windows of a building in Goulburn-street when a fire began on the ground floor and spread…
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THE HAGUE, June 17. A.A.P.—One Nazi war prisoner was killed and three wounded, following the firing of a camp…
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One of the many features of the victory Day celebrations in London was the night display on the Thames. Searchlights form a precise back ground for the illuminated fire-floats…
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