Cunnedah Rail Fire Causes £1500 Loss
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fire swept through the railway station building at Gunnedah to-night, destroying the roof and causing damage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Pianist Averted Panic At Concert Fire
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—The Adelaide pianist, Vina Barnden, was credited with having averted a panic among the…
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AUCKLAND, Feb. 20. A.A.P.-Reuter.—An employee was sent to hospital and two firemen injured when fire this afternoon destroyed…
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—The 3038-ton Danish mail ship, Kronprins Olay, carrying 115 passengers from Oslo to Copenhagen,…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21. A.A.P.—A farmer, Gerald Beagle, and seven of his nine children, were burned to death early to-day when their…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (AAP). -Fire destroyed a 400,000 dollars cyclotron at Princeton University yesterday…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22. A.A.P.—The five story Towers Hotel, at Grenfalls (New York) was destroyed by fire just before dawn…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Nine of the 45 guests and six firemen were injured when fire destroyed a hotel at Glen Falls…
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Cook's Hill Fire Brigade yesterday put out a fire in a smoking high-voltage cable in a railway signal box near Merewether-street level…
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The fire which broke out in a section of No. 3 tunnel at Bellbird mine yesterday was now under control, the miners' check inspector (Mr. J. Barrett) said today. Miners have been working all…
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To appoint two permanent of fleers to the Cardiff fire station culd involve an additional annual expenditure of £2500, the…
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Men are battling in Bellbird colliery to save a section which has fired, threatening a loss of hundreds of thousands of tons of coal…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fire which gutted a factory in Bourke-road, Waterloo, to-night caused more than £100,000…
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HOBART, Wednesday.—Jennifer McDonald, 8, who was in bed unable to move because of a plaster cast on her leg, was rescued by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Fire destroyed 16 cases of paint and varnish on board the 3000-ton coastal ship Culcairn at No. 5 wharf,…
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MONSON (Maine), Thurs. (A.A.P.):— Eight members of a family, including six children, were…
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Waratah Fire Brigade was called out shortly after noon today to extinguish a small grass fire on the high-level bridge near…
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Newcastle district fire brigades attended seven small grass and scrub fires on Saturday. They extinguished them without…
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SYDNEY.—Members of the Arson Squad are investigating a mysterious blaze which gutted the cabin of the luxury…
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MELBOURNE: It was evident that 12 fires in the Great Dividing Range had been started deliberately, probably by a man on horseback riding from one point to another, an officer of the Forestry Commission said today…
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