Fire Death Roll Now 59
CHICAGO, Friday (AAP). — A belief that the varnish on the wood panelling contributed to most of the smoke that suffocated the victims…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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Death-roll of 59 in Hotel Fire
NEW YORK, Friday: The representative, of the New York Times in Chicago says: Belief that varnish lacquers on wood…
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NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP).—Fifteen are known to have perished in an early morning fire which destroyed the six storey Canfield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lismore Fire Brigade Answers Two Calls
Lismore Fire Brigade had two calls over the week-end, neither of which was serious. On aturday night at 11.30 the…
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NEW YOKK, Sunday: At least 15 are known to be dead and it is feared that others perished early this morning in a fire which destroyed the six-storey Canfield Hotel in…
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A fire lighted for a demonstration by Lismore Fire Brilast night was set too well and almost burnt itself out by the…
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NEW YORK, Monday: The Chicago representative of the New York Times says: The toll in La Salle hotel fire last Wednesday is…
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BUBQUE (Ohio), Monday (AAP). — Like the fire at Chicago's hotel La Salle, panic contributed to the death roll in Bubque's greatest tragedy in which at least 15 persons lost their lives in the fire in the Canfield Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coolangatta Fire Board
For the purpose of electing three members to the newly constituted Coolangatta Fire Brigade. Board a large number of…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. —A man was arrested to-day and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm following a complaint by a…
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At Tuesday night's meeting of Coolangatta Town Council the Mayor (Ald L. Peak) and Ald C. H. Bateson were elected as…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — When fire broke out in the kitchen of her neighbour's home at Oatley today Mrs. Elsie Higgins rushed in and…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Axel Peterson, 48, pleaded not guilty and was remanded until June 21 on £200 bail at the Central Court to-day on a…
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Lismore Fire Brigade was called about 9.30 last night to the residence of Mr. I. G. Bondfield, 36 Elton Street, where an internal coke fire…
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LONDON, Sunday: When a family of six escaped in their night clothes from a blazing house at Preston in the early…
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THE HAGUE, Monday (AAP).—Four hundred Nazis set fire to an internment camp near…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Shots [?]ired by guards at a truck driven into a Maribyrnong munitions dump at midnight shattered both…
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BATAVIA, Tuesday: Heavy Indonesian fire yesterday prevented British low-level reconnaissance over the Bekassi…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday. —While the owner, Mr. H. J. O'Meara, was in hospital at Murwillumbah, fire destro[?]ed a house and the…
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While the owner, Mr H. J. O'Meara, was in hospital in Murwillumbah, fire totally destroyed a house and the whole…
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