Grandstand Destroyed. Fire on Tasmanian Racecourse
Last Tuesday night the grandstand on the Deloraine, Tasmania, racecourse was completely destroyed by fire. A high wind was blowing, and the structure was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires & bushfires, 1915
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Blaze in the City. Firemen's Anxious Time. Danger From Explosives. Ironmongery Store Badly Damaged
The firemen who attended the [?] which did about £2000 damage to Mr. E. A. Brown's ironmongery warehouse in York Place, off Liverpool-street, City, [?] after 11 o'clock last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Week-end Fires An Electric Freak a Little Girl Burned to Death
On Sunday morning last the Four-year old daughter of Mr. Parrett, of York-street, Sydney, was so badly burned that the mother had to carry her to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teumpster Hero. Rescues Sergeant-major in Face of Heavy Fire
In a letter in a [?] D. Thomas, of the South Stafferdshire Regiment, relates the following:—"In a recent severe engagement an [?]lish battery had lost all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Home Burnt. Four Children Perish. Wonthaggi Fire. Melbourne
Four children named Lovell were burnt to death at Wonthaggi on Saturday night. They lived with their parents in a tworoomed cottage. About 10 o'clock Mrs. Lovell…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heroic Marines Recapture of St. Georges Brave Dash Through the Enemy's Fire
The recapture by the Belgians of the village of St. George places the Allies in possession of several positions of great tactical importance. The Germans at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Look Slippy for the Last Bus." London Men Under Calling Fire. Admirals Coolness
An officer of the Northumberland Fusillers thus describes the coolness of London men under fire: "One day a party of the City of London Regiment were fighting a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Postbag of the War. Soldiers' Stories. Officer's Feelings Under Fire
An interesting pictures of the feelings of a man under fire is given in the current "Cambridge Review" in a letter written to his father by Lieutenant H. J. S. Shields, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fires
Fire damaged a shed at the rear of the premises occupied by Basil Turner, calic[?] manufacturer, in Monte Cristo-street, Woolwich, about 4.10 p.m. yesterday. The blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in a Kitchen
An overheated iron on a table caused a fire in the kitchen of Mrs. Rain's grocery shop in William Street, City, last night. The blaze was extinguished by the fire brigade. The room…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London 'Bus Drivers Under Fire
"Halt, you [?]— [?] You're running right into the German tr[?]" Two officers in British [?]lf[?] in a British motor-car [?]earing the broad arrow [?]ashed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berlin's Latest Charge. French Fire on Own Men. London, Thursday Morning
An official Berlin message says:-- "The systematic French bombardment of the villages behind our front continues. They seem indifferent to killing their own…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Panic. Fire in Tube Railway. New York Sensation. London, Wednesday Night
The entire underground railway service of New York has become disorganised through a fire breaking out owing to the fusing of the insulation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Panic. Fire on Underground Railway. One Person Killed. Two Hundred Injured. New York, Wednesday Night
There was sensational occurrence, which might have had even more serious results, on the underground railway to-day. The whole of the system was disorganised by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires in New Zealand
The dry weather has resulted in further serious fires breaking out, in Sax swamps in New Zealand. At Longbush, in the Wairarapa, the flat on 400 ceres…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Warehouse Fire. a Difficult Save
Fire and water damaged the contents of E. L. Brown's fronmongery warehouse in Liverpool-street, Sydney, on Monday night. The obnoxious fumes given off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Neath Colliery Unsealed. The Fire Entirely Out
The fact that the Neath Colliery was unsealed on Monday, and found to be recovered from the late fire will, to some event, relieve the labor marker at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Tube Railway. Two Hundred Injured
NEW YORK, Thursday.--The whole of the underground railways have been disorganised by a fire in a tube railway on Fifty-third Street. A terrible panic occurred, and those nearest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CONFLAGRATIONS Fires In Town and Country Four in a Family Burned to Death
In a two-loomed cottage in WEnthaggi, Victoria occupied by Mr. Lovell and family a fire occurred on Saturday night, and four children were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Tube. Underground Pa[?]ic. New York, Jan. 6
The whole of the underground railways have been disorganised owing to a fire which occurred in the tube at Fifty-third-street. A terrible panic ensued. Those nearest the…
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