Surf Rescues in Heavy Sea Bathers Fight Fire
HEAVY seas were running on all beaches yesterday, which were attended by tremendous crowds. Numbers of surfers got into difficulties, and [?]vers had a busy day…
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Four Children Dead English Cottage Fire Huddersfield
FOUR children were burned to death In a fire which destroyed a cottage in a lonely district. The parents were found wandering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crackers Blamed Fire at Italian Club Cairns [?]day
ABOUT 2.30 a.m. on new [?] Day, the Italian Club at [?]eek was destroyed by fire The [?] was constructed of wood and [?] for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Destroyed Fire at Mascot. Alarm Among Residents
Considerable alarm was caused by a fire which destroyed a weatherboard cottage and workrooms in Coward-street, Mascot, and damaged adoining premises, last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Duststorms. Like Glow of Distant Fire. Melbourne
Reports from the country indicate that dust storms were genernal on Saturday. The Mallee towns experienced the worst dust storms for years. Everything in the houses and shops…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plucky Policeman Helps Man and Wife Darlinghurst Fire
TIMELY assistance by a constables [?]shield a Darlinghurst restaurant proprietor and his wife to reach [?] by way of an awning, when a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£20,000 Damage by Fire Two Business Premises Burned
ADELAIDE, Monday. -- Damage, estimated at £20,000 was done early yesterday morning by a fire in Currie St., City…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"RESURRECTION" Love Like Ice and Fire in New Film
Featuring Dolores Del Rio and Rod la Rocque, the moving gala premiere at the Crystal Palace, "Resurrection," Toystoy's story of a love like ice and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire on Schooner. Graphic Story. a Fortunate Rescue. Auckland
Graphic details of the rescue by the Niagara of the crow of the Echooner Doris Crane, which was destroyed by fire while on a voyage from Fanning Island to San Francisco with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Had Their Fire After All the Merry Lads of Woolloomooloo
ALTHOUGH foiled it their attempt to have a huge bonfire on Saturday night, youths at Woolloomooloo carted hundreds of worn-out motor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hard Fight at Mascot Fire Four Brigades Occupied on £1000 Job
Before four brigades could control a serious outbreak of fire at Mascot last night a weatherboard cottage and sheds were gutted. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ball of Fire Little Boy Ablaze Watched Dad Died on Christmas Day
To carry his five-year-old son into the house, a living ball of fire, was the experience of Harold Benjamin, company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Went Through a Lane of Roaring Flames Motor Dash by Victorian Rescuers Twelve Miles of Fire
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bush fires in the Wangaratta district are now under control, but are being watched by several hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country News Still Dangerous Murray Bushfires Rain Wanted Albury
Stocktaking after the passing of disastrous bush fires on both sides of the Murray indicates that estimates of the extent of country burned must be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires. Victorian Disaster. £150,000 Damage. Melbourne
Reports from Wangaratta, Beechworth, and Wodonga state that the bush fires are practically under control. The total damage by the fires is £150,000. The most extensive fir[?]s…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush Fires Blazed But Youths Would Not Help "In Sunday Suits" Phonograph Played on Yass
Between 400 and 500 acres of good grazing country were swept by fire in the first outbreak of the season in the Yass district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Horses Roasted Five-mile Bush Fire Havoc Near Benalla Exhausted Fighters Melbourne
Fanned by a high northerly wind, a bush fire, having a five-mile front, caused great havoc on the western side of Benalla…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires in Victoria Cause Over £250,000 Damage Albury Border Areas Swept by Flames Most Serious Outbreaks for Twenty Years In Beechworth and Wangaratta Districts Homes and Sheep Burned
ALBURY, Tuesday. -- The bush fires in the Beechworth and Wangaratta districts have been the most serious for 20 years. The outbreaks near Albury and Barnawartha have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plucky Constable Prevents Big Blaze and Rescues Two People
Had it not been for the preemptions of Constable Blench, a big fire would have occurred at Bringhurst early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Burned to Death Spark From Father's Car Causes Blaze
Following an explosion of petrol, Clifford Herbert Benjamin, aged five years, was terribly burned at his home on December 18. He died in hospital…
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