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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1923

2,663 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 134

Another Fire Unlucky Meat Works

Evening News · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 2

The Sandown Meat Works was the scene of another fire this morning, when an ammonia pipe burat. It the explosion, a section of the…

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Sandown Fire More Explosions To-day

The Sun · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 5

There were two more explosions of ammonia tubes to-day at the Sandown Freezing Works which were burnt down on Thursday night…

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Meatworks Fire. Extensive Damage. Series of Explosions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 13

The Sandown Freezing Works, in Grand-avenue, Granville, which were destroyed by fire on Thursday night, smouldered throughout yesterday. Recrudescences frequently…

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Motor Car Destroyed by Fire. Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 15

Last night, whilst the town was illuminated by bonfires and fireworks displays, an alarm of fire was given. A motor car, the property of R. Reynolds, of Harden, and formerly of…

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Sandown Meat Works. Totally Destroyed by Fire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 6

About 9 o'clock on Thursday night a fire broke out at the Sandown Meat Works. The flames obtained such a firm hold on inflammable material in the…

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Fire at Chillagoe. Two Hotels Burned. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 13

The Postal Department has been advised from Chillagoe that a big fire occurred there on Wednesday night, when the Central Hotel and Post-office Hotel were burnt to the…

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News in Picture Sydney Fashions. £250,000 Blaze. A Convict's Hiding Place. Fin-de-siecle Bridesmaids. A Much Married Young Countess

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 22

ISLAND POLICEMEN. Captain Williams and his detachment of native police at Manus Island in Admiralty Group--formerly German territory. (Inset) A native prisoner in Rebaul, with his Australian guard. This man, it is alleged, was caught in the act of cannibalism. He got three years for his crime!…

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At It Again Sniping in Dublin Fire-bugs Busy, London, Friday, Evening

Evening News · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 1

There was [?]sniping at…

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A Mock Fire

The Sun · Sunday 27 May 1923 · page 31

HARRY and his chums, Jack and Norman, wore on their Christmas vacation, and as they had already indulged in all kinds of sport…

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Fifty Racehorses Destroyed by Fire

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 May 1923 · page 2

NEW YORK.—Forty to Fifty stations and brood mares, valued at approximately £100.000, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a stable…

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The "Nero" Act Fire Under Theatre Panic Averted Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 27 May 1923 · page 2

A fire in a picture theatre at Devonport threatened to create a panic amongst the audience, but the alarm was allayed by the manager, who…

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Sydney's Fire Risks In Twenty Years We Suffer £4,000,000 Damage on Waterfront, of Which Half Could Have Been Saved Sandown Loss Twice What It Should Be Brigades Vainly Call For Modern Firefloats

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 May 1923 · page 1

On Sydney's water frontages the estimated loss by fire in twenty years has been well over £1,000,000…

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Cottage Gutted Blaze at Bexley

Evening News · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 1

A fire destroyed a [?] cottage in Robertson-street, [?] early yesterday morning. The place had until recently been…

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Sandown Fire

The Sun · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 8

In your issue of Friday it is stated in the paragraph regarding the fire at the Sandown Freezing Works that "despatches were issued for two…

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The Fire Brigades

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 3

Mr. S. H. Lister has been appointed third officer of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, in succession to Mr. T. P. H. Nance, M.B.E., recently promoted to…

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Fell Into Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 7

Rolling out of bed into an open fire, Robert Cartwright eight months old, was fatally burned on Friday. The baby had been left for a moment by his…

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Fire at Raymond Terrace. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 9

At Raymond Terrace, a two-storled wooden building, occupied by Mrs. E. Morris, a widow, was destroyed by fire. Very little of the contents, which were uninsured, was saved…

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Fire and Water Revolvers Unsubdued by Hoses Ruhr Conflict Communists Attack Bochum Fire Brigade LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 1

A conflict in which fire and water contended for superiority as humanly employed weapons has occurred at Bochum, according to a message from Berlin. Two were killed and 33 wounded in the…

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Country News. Fire at a Quarry. Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 10

A fore. whian broke out in the boiler shed at Mr. H. W. Kerle's [?]ime quarry at Chatuam, did damage est[?]ted at £100. The frame and fittings were destroyed, but voluntary…

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Fire Danger

Evening News · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 7

The shortage of water and increased danger from outbreak of fire should remind those uninsured to [?] at once with the Mercantile Mutual…

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