14 Burnt in Bus Fire
PERTH, Sunday.—Fourteen passengers were burnt when a bus burst into flames at Minjimup. Mrs. Grace Evelyn Archer, 33,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 29
Fire Escape Need At School
Measurements were taken yesterday by Education Department officers for the installation of a fire escape at Hamilton Public School…
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TORONTO, April 6. A.A.P.—Six children, ranging in age from eight to 16 years, were burned to death in their beds when the…
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ROCK ISLAND (Illinois), April 7, A.A.P.—Two 14-year-old girls yesterday confessed that they set fire to two schools, of which one,…
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SYDNEY: An incapacitated ex-sail or's heroic rescue bid may have saved baby Gregory Charles Bassett from a tragic death by fire at Manly last night if the invalid's strength had not failed as he hacked at blazing walls with an axe…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): The freighter American Producer (8228 tons) is on fire at sea, 540 miles south-east of Saint Johns (Newfoundland). She is carrying a crew of about 50…
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NEW YORK, April 11. A.A.P.—The United States Line's cargo ship, American Producer (8228 tons), is on fire at sea, 540 miles…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Police to-day charged three Lithgow schoolboys with having, attempted to set fire to pit-top buildings at two…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Russia has officially protested to the United States that an American military plane violated Russian territory four days ago and fired on a flight of…
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NORRISTOWN (Pennsylvania), Wed. (A.A.P.).—Nicholas Verna (26), former inmate of Belle Vista Private Asylum, who…
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NEW YORK, April. 12.—"Film stars who break into headlines by stories about their moral lapses should be promptly fixed."…
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BRISBANE.—Damage estimated at more than £14.000 was caused by a spectacular fire which destroyed five big launches and two motor tenders and damaged three bondwood dinghies at Ruster's Boatbuiling Works, Redland Bay, last night…
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TOKIO, Fri.(A.A.P.Reuter).—Fire last night destroyed 1020 buildings in Atami, a seaside resort 60 miles from…
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TOKYO, April 14. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Cigarettes were responsible for two disastrous fires in Japan in the last 24 hours. One killed 16 people and the other razed one quarter of a town…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Two elderly men were awakened late to-night by flames sweeping over their beds in their home in Buckingham-street,…
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LITHGOW.—The Jeldi Manufacturing Company's factory was almost totally destroyed by fire early today. The damage…
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SINGAPORE, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter): Casualties in the oil fire at Pulaa Samboe Island, near Singapore, are now five dead, one in hospital with serious burns and two missing…
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SINGAPORE, April 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Two Indonesians were killed and 10 people were seriously burnt when the British oil tanker Lingula caught fire late last night at Pulau Samboe Island…
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HOBART, Tuesday.—Fire has broken out in a bunker of the interstate freighter Delungra, which arrived in Hobart to-day…
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