Fire Panic Averted Eagle's Spell Over Audience
While gas-masked firemen fought a fire in the cinema operating room at the crowded Picton Hall, Liverpool, recently, a lecturer remained on the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
415 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 21
Pine Forest Fire 150,000 Trees Destroyed MELBOURNE
A fire believed to have been wilfully caused, destroyed 150,000 young trees and threatened 6,000,000 others on the State Pine plantation of 10,000…
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CANTON, Sunday: -- Believed to be due to the ignition of a celluloid article a fire broke out on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped by Fire Nurse Burned To Death New York
Trapped in a converted residence lacking a fire escape, a nurse was burned to death and another gravely injured to-day. Several were rescued…
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MELBOURNE, Monday : -- The most disastrous fire in Melbourne for many years completely destroyed the Government Cool Stores at Victoria Dock to-day and menaced shipping. The steamer, Port Wellington, one of four ships…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Cool Stores Destroyed by Fire £500,000 DAMAGE Produce for Export Included Firemen Handicapped Melbourne
ONE of the most disastrous fires Melbourne has seen swept through the Government cool stores at Victoria dock this afternoon causing damage estimated at nearly £500,000. Included in this estimate…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: -- Although all danger had passed, the debris of the Government cool stores, which caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welsh Nationalists Sentenced Nine Months' Gaol Sequel to Fire at R. A. F. Aerodrome
LONDON, Tuesday:--Seven hundred Welshmen journeyed to London by special train to attend the retrial to-day at the Old Bailey of the three Welsh Nationalists on charges of malicious damage and maliciously setting fire to buildings,…
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BRISBANE, Friday:-- The two storeyed Hotel Canungra, at Canungra, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is…
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Slihgt damage was caused to a shed used as a garage at the rear of the shop occupied by Mr. C. Bewers in River-street this morning. Hot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£10,000 Fire at Babinda BRISBANE
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed seven shops and their contents in the main street of Babinda, North Queensland,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Swept by "Floating" Fire Cincinnatti
The worst disaster in the city's history occurred to-day when gasoline and oil floating on the flood waters of the industrial section was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£10,000 Damage at Babinda Fire Destroys Seven Shops
BRISBANE, Monday:--Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by fire which destroyed seven shops, together with their contents, in the…
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CINCINNATI, Sunday:--The worst disaster in the city's history occurred when gasoline oil floating on the flood waters in the…
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Eight nominations have been received to represent the councils of country municipalities and shires on the Board of Fire Commissioners. They are as…
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One of the biggest fires that has occurred in Sydney for some time broke out in the wholesale ironmongery six-storey premises of W…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday:-- Eight nominations have been received to represent the councils of country municipalities and shires on the Board of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday:--One of the greatest fires in recent years broke out late last night in a group of warehouses between York and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire, Hunger and Disease Add to Ravages of Floods American Disaster Deathroll Mounting; Homeless Now 500,000
CHICAGO. Monday.--Fire, hunger and disease have spread over 1800 miles of the flood-ravaged Ohio and Mississippi valleys, bringing new terrors to approximately 500,000 homeless and marooned persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Hunger and Disease in Flood Area 500,000 Now Homeless Continued Rain Carries New Threats Cities Evacuated CHICAGO
FIRE, hunger and disease have spread for 1800 miles in the flood ravaged Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, bringing new terrors. Approximately 500,000 are homeless. Many are marooned with the…
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