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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
170 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 9
RIMOUSKI (Quebec), Tuesday (AAP).—Stunned and weary residents of this fire-ravaged city, counted their loss yesterday, as the devastated areas smouldered under a light blanket of snow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABANO (Quebec), Wednesday (AAP).—A roaring fire destroyed half of this mill town yesterday as 3000 residents fled to safety. Nearly 1500 homeless men and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—The burnt out wreckage of a plane was found 14 miles south of Croydon about 250 miles S.W. of Cairns last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leakage from the cap of a four gallon jar of nitric acid almost caused a fire in the "Northern Star" building yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore Fire Brigade was called out late yesterday afternoon to extinguish burning megass on the railway line near the goodsheds at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—A doctor and a nurse were burned to death when trapped by a fire at a London hospital. The nurse's charred body was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kyogle Fire Brigade had a full day's work on Saturday quelling a deep-seated fire at Thomas Hayes and Sons' sawmill at Green Pigeon. The outbreak was confined to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men with their clothes afire and screaming in agony, were dragged by workmates from a roofing factory in Waterloo today when it was gutted by flames. The men were caught in the path…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HELSINKI, Wednesday (AAP).—A blazing figure with a giant goblin's head rushed across the stage of a theatre at Tampers in South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fifteen new Australians were injured—four seriously—and about 250 others rendered homeless, when a fire razed a hutment at the Brooklyn migrant centre early today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lismore Brigade received a call early last night to a fire outbreak amongst grass and old timber at the corner of Floral Avenue and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LA PLATA (Argentina), Wednesday (AAP).—Three persons were burned to death and 10 others seriously injured yesterday when fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Two women, two young children and a man were burned to death last night, when flames swept three coaches of the speeding Birmingham-Glasgow Express, about 30 miles from Glasgow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Lismore Convent School was partially destroyed by fire last night. A weatherboard structure, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST UNION (West Virginia), Monday (AAP).—A cloudburst caused heavy floods and a devastating fire in this area last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—As the representative of His Lordship, Bishop Farrelly, who is absent from the Diocese of Lismore. I would be grateful to express…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A 21 years old press machinist had a miraculous escape from death tonight, when a drum of petrol he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A tractor, the property of Mr. E. T. Imeson, of Ettrick, was severely damaged by fire at his property at Woolner's Arm early last week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday (AAP).—The military show at the historic garrison town of Aldershot, which the King and Queen were to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGAPORE, Thursday (AAPReuter). — Black flame-lit towers of smoke reached 3000 feet into the sky today from a blazing rubber…
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