Fires Started by Man on Horse
MELBOURNE, Monday.-- An incendiarist who is said to have ridden a horse through the Otway Range on Thursday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
402 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 21
Fire in Mine
NEW YORK, Tuesday: Fire suddenly broke out last night in the big Willowgrove coalmine at Clairsville, Ohio, where 72 men…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday : Families left their homes and moved furniture into the streets today as flames from a burning…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday (AAP-Reuter). -- The Royal Commission into the tragic fire in Ballantyne's Store in November when 41 lives were lost, began at Christchurch today…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday: The Royal Commission inqu iry into the tragic fire at Ballantyne's store in November, when 41 lives were lost, began at Christchurch today…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The police and officers of the Forestry Department have been ordered to track down the "galloping incendiarist" who is held responsible for serious bushfires raging in the Otway Range…
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Promptness of Mullumbimby Fire Brigade in arriving on the scene of the fire following an alarm late on Tuesday afternoon…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.-- Prompt work by Mullumbimby Fire Brigade saved Mr. L. Partridge's blacksmith forge in Dalley Street…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).--The Royal Commission would have to consider whether an extension ladder was sufficiently modern, whether failure to despatch the ladder in the…
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CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday: "It is an undeniable fact that there was no co-ordinated and centrally directed method adopted to evacuate Ballantyne's premises, and of a general lack of appreciation of all…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- For the first time in a week there is no fire danger in Victoria. Light rain fell today and aided…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Cargo caused a spontaneous combustion fire which broke out in the Queensland-bound motor ship…
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Sir, -- In your issue of Dec. 18, 1947, you printed a letter dealing with statements made by Mrs. Freda Brown, the Communist…
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ST. ALBANS, Vermont, Friday: An undertermined number of guests was killed and 12 persons were…
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HONGKONG, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).--Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed dead and 15 taken to hospital as the result of panic…
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HONGKONG, Sunday: Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed dead and 15 were taken to hospital as a result of [?] panic, due…
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A sports car owned by Mr. Ronald Hensley, of Laurel Avenue, Lismore, was slightly damaged by a fire which was caused by a mechanical…
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JERUSALEM, Wednesday (AAP).--Two Arab prisoners escaped from Jerusalem Central Prison under cover of several bombs and heavy…
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GRAFTON, Wednesday.--A Macleay River farmer, Mr. Ray Fowler, of Frederickton, considers last week's coal strike to be the cause of his…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday: Some time before the actual fire at Ballantynes a false alarm had been given from a point near Ballantynes, and three engines, a salvage van and a large ladder turned out…
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