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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
170 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 9
Gale winds which swept the Richmond district on Saturday caused damage to homes and shops, disrupted power and telephone services, played havoc with gardens and fanned fires in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Fire gutted a tannery at Botany tonight and caused damage estimated at £20,000. Owned by Pinney and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday (AAP). -- Officers of M15 were called in by the War Office last night after a preliminary inquiry had pointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The lower section of Kyogle's main business area was threatened early on Saturday afternoon, when a small rubbish fire was fanned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A motor bike owned by John O'Regan, of Pine Street, Lismore, was slightly damaged by fire late on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- A boy aged 5 years and 9 months was burnt to death when fire destroyed the tent in which he was sleeping at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LEDUC (Alberta), Sunday (AAP). -- Seven persons were killed and 16 injured when an explosion of a gas heating system yesterday started a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →KALIMPONG, Monday (AAP). -- Chinese led Tibetan People's troops have entered Lhasa and hostilities have ceased, it is reported…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GARRETT (Pennsylvania), Monday (AAP). -- Six sleeping children died in a fire which swept through a wooden house in this little mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday. -- A fire gutted Berry's Bay boatshed and caused an estimated £59,000 damage tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Fire severely damaged the Apex Fibrous Works in Wilson Street, Newtown, today. Firemen from four stations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Flames tonight shot out of the debris in the shell of a three-storey building at the rear of 107 Liverpool Street, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- A woman was burned to death, a man seriously burned and a bedridden woman carried to safety…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. -- A spectacular fire, believed to have been started by an intruder, swept through Onehunga Joinery Works…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday. -- Arson Squad detectives are certain that a fire which destroyed the office of Nathan Fitzer Pty. Ltd. on the third floor of Beaumont Chambers, King Street, on Saturday night, was started after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Tragic losses of life and property by fire in the last few days served to remind the community of the need for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 400 bags of corn were lost when a fire destroyed a barn on the property of Mr. R. M. Knapp, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.-- Two girls, aged three and six, went back inside their burning homestead after their brother, 21, had rescued them this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP).-- The Norwegian- American Line motorship, Lyngenfjord, 3800 tons, afire in stormy seas off Long Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.-- Record bushfires are sweeping Tasmania and history- making floods are swamping Queensland and flood- battered N. S. W. today. Five feet high sandbag levees…
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