Train on Fire Lucky Passengers ADELAIDE
While standing at Gawler railway station, on the usual journey from Adelaide to Angaston this morning, a rail car burst into flames. Between 30. and…
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In Check Dandenong Range Fire Hard Fight Many Volunteers Out Melbourne
The fire which swept the police paddocks at Dandenong and menaced a number of properties yesterday broke out afresh this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis. Kalms, the Wonder Smashes a Racquet Through Tennis Programme Rapid Fire in Country Championships
ONCE again that cross-court southerly, which makes tennis so difficult, cut into the form of players in the finals of the Country Championships at Rushcutters Bay yesterday. FRED KALMS, the Wyalong player, carried all before him,…
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Bush fires are raging all along the Western coast. Usually the bush in these areas is wet, but after the long dry spell it is like tinder…
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AFTER an expenditure of many millions of dollars on aeroplanes and other modern inventions to detect and fight forest fires, American forest…
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Mrs. Kncx, of 131 George-street West, was awakened early to-day by the crackling of flames. She leaped from bed to find that the building next door,…
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The business premises of the R.E.D. Coupon Co., at 132 George Street West, were gutted by fire at 2 o'clock this morning…
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BLOCKED by a raging inferno of flames as they attempted to escape from Wynyard Buildings yesterday when it…
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CONSIDERATION of the city fire yesterday leads to one inescapable conclusion. Many years ago, after a disastrous fire at the old premises of Anthony Horderns at the Haymarket, a fire in which life was lost in a…
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THE business quarter or Stanthorpe was swept by fire early to-day. The outbreak started in Allison's Buildings, and the following premises were soon…
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Early this morning two further outbreaks of fire occurred in the city-one in Kentstreet and the other in George-street West. The more serious fire was at 132…
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While carrying lime and gypsum from Edithburg to Port Adelaide, the Ketch Napperly caught fire on Friday afternoon, but managed to reach port…
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Thousands of people watched with awe while in the short space of an hour yesterday afternoon five destroyed Wynyerd Buildings, on eight-storey block of offices in Carrington-street. A danes cloud of smoke hung over the northern end of the city…
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PUTTING THE LAST OUNCE INTO IT.--Navy League Sea Cadets strain at the rope in the tug-o'-war. They had their annual outing at Nielsen Park on Saturday. WHERE THE MONEY CHANGES HANDS.--Ascot attracted…
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Our artist's impression of the big blase at Wynyard House, Carrington Street, yesterday, at the moment the walls began to topple…
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C. Footer, driver of a rail car on the Adelaide-Angaston run, received slight injuries when the woodwork of the vehicle caught fire at Gawler shortly…
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The North Coast Company's river steamer Cudgen was badly damaged by a fire discovered at 4 o'clock this morning. The Cudgen was moored at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tons of Masonry Crash Into Street During City Fire
THRILLED BIG- CROWD OF SPECTATORS.--The front wall of the top floor of Wynyard Building crashing into Carrington Street during the progress of yesterday's sensational fire. Squads of firemen, who were working hoses from the street, saw the collapse in time, and rushed out of the danger zone, missing death by a few seconds. There was a deafening roar as the great mass hit the ground and shook it as in an earthquake. As the firemen ran they were pelted from behind by a tornado of flying fragments. (See story, page 2)…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A rail motorcar, which was proceeding to Angaston from Adelaide yesterday, caught fire while standing in the Gawler…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big City Blaze Causes Damage to the Extent of £100,000 Wynyard House Wrecked by Fire and Water Whole Block in Danger Splendid Work by Ten Brigades Checks Disastrous Outbreak Police in Thrilling Rescue Work
THE most disastrous fire that Sydney has seen for many months threatened a whole block in the heart of the city late yesterday afternoon. It is estimated that damage to the extent of £100,000…
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