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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
542 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 28
EFFINGHAM (Illinois), Tues. (A.A.P.): Fifty-seven lives were lost in a disastrous hospital fire here last night. The death-roll includes 10 newly-born infants. Thirty-four bodies were taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, April 6. A.A.P.— The death toll in the fire which destroyed St. Anthony's Hospital early yesterday rose to an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DUBBO, Thursday.—A Qantas owned Lancastrian crash landed and was destroyed by fire during a training flight at 1.15 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cook's Hill and Hamilton brigades were called to a fire on the tug Champion, lying at the State Dockyard last night. A small blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, April 7. A.A.P.— The toll of known dead and reported missing in the fire at St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INVERELL: Flames leaping more than 100 feet in the air lit up Inverell early this morning: when a 3-storey flour mill,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A nurse had to run 100 yards to a telephone to call a fire brigade to a fire at Hilltop Private Hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P).—When Gloria Miller discovered a davenport in her boarding house as Pasadena, California, was on fire, she put it out. Next day she was summoned to court for violation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON.—Five times the manager of the Gaiety Cinema, Taunton, flashed on the screen recently that a car was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Fire brigades from three centres fought a fire which gutted McIlrath's branch store in Oxford-street, Paddington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, April 13. A.A.P.— The tanker, Pennsylvania, Sun (11,000 tons) is on fire following a collision with the freighter,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOSFORD, Sunday.—Two operators at the Valencia Theatre were burnt when film caught fire in the projection room at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Two seamen were burnt—one seriously— when a fire swept through the crew's quarters to-night, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), April 19. A.A.P.—Fire destroyed the motor vessel Farahon, near Port Bolivar, on Saturday. Details of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOSFORD: Fire caused £1000 damage to the office and two trucks at the wooden premises of R. H. Wain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), April 20. A.A.P.—Thirty-one of 59 passengers on the motorship Farahon are now reported dead or missing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOSFORD, Thursday.—A milk vendor, noticing flames from the wooden building of R. H. Wain, building material supplier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LITHGOW, Friday.—A 13-year- old girl was badly burnt when her nightgown caught fire while she was standing with her back to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A crew member of the British cruiser London, heavily shelled by Chinese Communist on the Yangtse River, has a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BERLIN, April 24. A,A.P.—Tons of candles fed the flames which destroyed a factory in the British sector of Berlin last night…
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