Eight Die In Cinema Fire Panic
ATHENS, March 20. A.A.P.—Screaming women, with children in their arms, battled with police as a panic stricken audience stampeded…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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Youth Gaoled; Started Fire After Robbery
SYDNEY, Monday.—George Thomas Young, 16, who set fire to a city building after robbing it, causing £4000 damage, was…
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LONDON, March 23. A.A.P.—Fifteen fire engines, after a 40-minute fight, brought under control a blaze that was sweeping…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two men who tried to stem an oil blaze were rescued unconscious from a fume and smoke filled tower…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damage Auction Was Rushed
Six hundred buyers, mostly women, some from Sydney, jammed a small auction room and spilled…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Heat exploded windows and hurled glass 70 feet on to George-street near Wynyard Station when a fire broke…
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SYDNEY.—A houseboat was gutted by fire at Five Dock Bay early today, when leaping 80 feet flames and intense heat…
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BELGRADE, March 27. A.A.P.—Rumanian armed forces early yesterday morning (Yugoslav election day) opened fire across the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cigarette Set Fire to Trousers
Cecil Mather, 30, of Platt's Estate, Waratah, was taken to Royal Newcastle Hospital, yesterday with severe burns to the right hip. He…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): The American cargo ship Santarita (8297 tons), carrying 4000 cases of dynamite, raced today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soviet Atom Ships Will Fire Rockets
LONDON, March 28. A.A.P.—A diagrammatic sketch of an atomic rocket launching battleship, which the West Berlin newspaper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wife Set Fire To Him, Says Man
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man said in the Divorce Court to-day that his wife poured methylated spirits on his back while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire Near Aerodrome
A large area or grass off Turton-road, near the aerodrome, was well ablaze yesterday when brigades from Hamilton and Waratah arrived. The…
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Garbage on a Newcastle City Council truck caught alight yesterday near the City Markets. The garbage was discharged on to a…
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Fire broke out last night in a bulk store containing a large number of 44-gallon drums of lubricating oil, owned by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Did You Know? Colored fire
Pine-cones can be chemically prepared so that they burn with different colors in a fireplace…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mental Patients Die In Fire
PHILADELPHIA, March 30. A.A.P.—Nine men mental patients, five of them chained to concrete slabs, died in a fire in a private sanatorium last night…
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PHILADELPHIA, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A patient admitted today that he started the fire that killed nine inmates of the Belle Vista Sanitarium last night. The confession came as the…
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PHILADELPHIA, March 31. A.A.P.—A patient admitted yesterday that he started the fire that killed nine inmates of Belle Vista…
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Cook's Hill and Hamilton fire brigades, which were called to a reported fire in a cottage in Gow-street, Hamilton, on Saturday night,…
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