Fought Fire With Bare Hands
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Using his bare hands to prevent the spread of a fire which broke out in a city workroom to-day, a man saved Valuable…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
594 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 30
Wrong Ship Reported on Fire
LONDON April 16. A.A.P.—Lloyds, which reported on Monday that the British steamer Somerset was on fire off Arbua (West Indies) now states…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A postmaster was committed for trial to-day by the City Coroner for having maliciously set fire to his own post-office…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →1200 Dead, 3500 Injured §&&C^ tf -3;- Ship Explodes In Texas Port Fires Unchecked, City Wrecked
NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed and 3500 injured in a series of explosions which today practically destroyed Texas City (on the Gulf of Mexico). The French freighter Grand Camp, loaded with ammonium-nitrate and…
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PEORIA (Illinois), April 18. A.A.P. —A settlement of the long and bloody Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Company strike, during which the…
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The vast canopy of flame and smoke over devastated Taxes City in shown in this picturegram. The catastrophe began…
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NEW YORK, April 18. A.A.P.—A third freighter has sunk in the wrecked port of Texas City. About a fifth of the city's population of 18,000 persons are dead or injured…
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TOKYO, April 21 A.A.P.—A fire which broke out in the inland city of Iida, 100 miles west of Tokyo, at noon yesterday, and raged until 3 a.m. to-day, destroyed 3984 houses, rendering 17,814 people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys In Custody Of Parents; Set Fire To Shed
Three boys who appeared before Judge Nield at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday, charged with having set fire to a shed occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Cotton Threatened Sydney Factory
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire in a stack of 1000 bales of raw cotton and cotton waste to-night threatened the factory of the Australian…
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Waratah and Cook's Hill brigades attended a small fire in Ferguson's grocery store in Maitland-road, Mayfield, last night. Some coir matting…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two buildings were practically destroyed in a fire at Coonamble to-day. The fire broke out in the building of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Havoc in U.s.a. Fire, Tornado
This week's air mail shows a variety of accidents and disasters in U.S.A. Top left: Splintered box cars litter the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If There's Less Smoke In London, There's A Big Anti-Labor Fire Gordon Gilmour's London Diary
LONDON, Wednesday.—Many smokers— particularly the younger ones—are recovering from the shock of the Budget slug on tobacco, which sent the price of cigarettes up to 2d. each…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police cars, fire engines, ambulances and reporters went to an address in Victoria road, King's Cross, to-night, in…
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BRISBANE.—Fire damaged Fieldings peanut paste factory in Logan Road, Woollongabba, early this morning to the extent of about £18,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arms Dumps [?] in China Fires Blaze; Bodies Litter Wide Area
SHANGHAI, April 25. A.A.P.—The huge National ammunition dumps at Hsuchow blew up late on Wednesday night, levelling all barracks, houses and installations in the area…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £18,000 was caused by a fire at Fielding's peanut paste factory. Wollongabba. Valuable…
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COQUIMBO (Chile), April 27. A.A.P.—Nine men lost their lives when a series of explosions rocked the blazing petrol-laden coastal…
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MADRAS, April 27. A.A.P.—A fire, which has been raging unchecked for two days in Rajahmundry, has destroyed…
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