9 Prefabs Lost in Fire
ADELAIDE, Monday.—Fire in a grass paddock at Gilles Plains, near Adelaide, destroyed nine prefabricated…
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Fires & bushfires, 1953
622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 32
Family Of Six Die In Fire
NEW YORK, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—An early morning fire wiped out a family of six at Erie (Pennsylvania)…
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ADELAIDE.—A young unidentified motor cyclist was killed instantly when struck by a fire reel at…
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HONGKONG, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—Forty thousand Chinese were made homeless when fire…
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COOMA. â Two recent immigrants to Australia, Mr. and Mrs. Quercia, lost all their possessions when…
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PITTSBURGH, Sun., (AAP): Hundreds of prisoners rioted and set fire to part of the Western State Gaol tonight and police said several warders were held hostage…
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Damage estimated at £1000 was caused to a storeroom of Boolaroo Co-operative Society by a fire…
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A fire at the rear of the Boolaroo Cooperative Society's premises at Boolaroo last night severely damaged a storeroom…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Firemen to-day poured thousands of gallons of water through the roof of the…
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Fire brigades were called to the Great Northern Hotel, Scott-street, early last night, when fat fell on a hot griller…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25. A.A.P.—Damage estimated at more than 1,500,000 dollars (£A670,000) was caused when…
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HOUSTON (Texas), Sun. (A.A.J.)—Fire swept an old tenement house two doors from a fire station…
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Fire destroyed a house in Bay-street, Saratoga, yesterday. All contents of the house, including a bus conductor's…
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HONG KONG, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter). —Two thousand five hundred people are homeless after…
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LONDON Mon. (A.J.P.): The blazing Atlantic liner Empress of Canada (20,325 tons) keeled over in a Liverpool floating dock last night, with ber side in the water,…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26. A.A.P.— Flames engulfed five oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico to-day, causing a loss of at least one million dollars…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26. A.A.P.—Ten people lost their lives in fires in America yesterday…
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MORGAN CITY (Louisiana), Mon. (A.A.P.).—Fire-fighters have called for bazookas to shoot off the…
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LONDON, Jan. 26. A.A.P.— The Canadian luxury liner Empress of Canada (20,325 tons) was destroyed by fire at Liverpool docks…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 27. A.A.P.—An elaborately planned raid by U.S. troops in Korea, which ended disastrously for the attackers, has inflamed opinion in the United States…
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