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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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NEW YORK Thursday, (AAP).—Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed, and 3,500 injured in a series of explosions which yesterday practically destroyed the city of Texas City, on the Gulf Mexico. The French freighter, Grand Camp, loaded with antmonlunt-nitrale end cotton, caught…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →YORK, Friday: Texas City authorities ordered evacuation of the lower city area last night as fresh fires in the oil refinery and the shifting wind caused new threats to the town. The wind swinging southward was blowing heavy smoke across the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CALCUTTA, Friday (AAP).—A loss estimated at £1,500,000 was caused by a fire at an R.A.F. ordnance depot, a few miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—Fresh fires in sections of devastated Texas City brought renewed peril to the shattered Gulf of Mexico port. Three hours earlier it had been announced that an end was in sight to the chain of disasters which wrecked the city and left about one-fifth of the population of 18,000 dead or injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What could easily have been a serious fire in business promises at Tweed Heads on Friday evening was quelled by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murwillumbah Fire Brigade was called out to extinguish a fire in the rear of premises occupied by Mr J. Reeve, Wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOKIO, Monday: A fire which broke out in the inland city of lida, 100 miles west of Tokio, at noon yesterday and raged until 3 am today destroyed 3984 houses, left 17,814 homeless, and caused damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, Monday (AAP).—A fire which broke but in the inland city of Lydda, 100 miles west of Tokio, at noon yesterday and raged until 3 a.m. to-day, destroyed 3984 houses, leaving 17,814 persons homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TEXAS CITY, Wednesday: A warehouse containing ammonium nitrate burst into flames, seven days after the disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP),— A warehouse containing ammonium nitrate burst into flames at Texas City…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday. —The Brunswick Heads committee responsible for the appeal to assist Mr. S. Cornwell, who lost a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Friday: Damage estimated at approximately £18,000 was caused by fire which broke out at the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Sunday: Fire probably caused by the dropping of a cigarette butt on a seat, destroyed about 120 seats…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Fire, probably caused by the dropping of a cigarette butt on a scat, destroyed about 120 seats in the dress circle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MADRAS, Sunday (AAP). — A fire raging unchecked for two days in Rajahmundry destroyed property valued at over £2 million sterling,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This week's air mail shows a variety of accidents and disasters in U.S.A. Top left: Splintered box cars litter the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sabotage is suspected to be the cause of the fire last night which razed the Godown, of Rotterdam…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—William Henry Hayes, 50, seaman, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously set…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday: Fire glutted a building in Redfern used by Cinesound Production Pty. Ltd. as a store this afternoon and all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The prompt action of Miss Margaret Roberts in giving the alarm, and of Mr. Bob Harkpess, proprietor of the Court…
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