Oil Blaze in the City Billowing Smoke Suburban Outbreaks
IMMENSE clouds of blue and yesterday smoke billowed upward from J. H. Gardiner and Co.'s off works. 250 Elizabeth Street. City, when a…
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Another Fire at Cronulla
The shop premises (late Newton’s) occupied by Mr. Cooper as a fish and oyster saloon in Curranulla Street, Cronulla, was completely burnt out…
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Mrs. Florence Foster, aged 48 years, of Carrington-road, Waverley, was severely burnt about the face and body last night when her clothes became lgnited…
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Mrs. Florence Agnes Foster, aged 48, of Carrington-road. Waverley, is in St. Vincent's Hospital, suffering severely from burns received last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Homes Menaced Bathurst Fires Many Sheep Perish Bathurst
FANNED by a strong wind bush fires, which have been raging in Bathurst district since Tuesday, continued as fiercely as ever. Hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Plane Lost Smoke From Fires Back to Newcastle Newcastle
AN AEROPLANE bound for Brisbane, and containing Pilot D.A.B. Smith with Miss Pattin[?]. of Brisbane, as passenger, became lost in a dense pail of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commissioners Deny That Engine Caused Fire
The statement made to the "Telegraph Pictorial" by Mr. Eagle, of Botany, on Wednesday, that a lump of glowing coal from a passing engine…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Bug Busy? Goulburn Outbreaks Goulburn
Police are investigating a fire, the third within a few weeks, wh[?] broke out in the pounds of the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Roaring Fire. Sweeps Huge Area. Goulburn
The worst bushfire that has been experienced for years at Gurrundah. 20 miles from Goulburn, swept the country yesterday afternoon and last night, and did enormous damage…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at Cronulla. Shop and Dwelling Destroyed
On Wednesday night a fire broke out in a weatherboard shop and dwelling in Curranulla Street, Cronulla, occupied by Albert Norwood Cooper as a fish shop,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drover's Plight Encircled by Fire Lithoow
Reports of damage done by bushfires in the district are coming to hind Mr. Oram of Porter's Retreat Port Office. mane god to save his house and the store…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Fiend Still Abroad-- Little Girls' Tragic Deaths
LORRY OVER--This lorry overturned in Anzac-parade, near Moore Park, this morning, owing to a breakdown underneath Inset: The driver, W. Woolfe, whose leg was injured. MURDER MYSTERY.--Leslie W. Williams, who is thought to have been murdered somewhere near…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Middle Head Fire. Large Area Aflame. Soldiers Reinforce Firemen
About 200 acres of bushland at Middle Head was swept by fire yesterday afternoon, and the flames were brought under control only after they had burnt down to Obelisk Beach…
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GRAPHIC PICTURE taken by a "Pictorial" photographer in the midst of the bush fire which raged along a three-mile front at Woy Woy yesterday. Helped by a strong westerly the flames devoured a vast area of tree and bush, and late last night the flames were making for the coast in the direction of Ocean Beach. To fight the inferno was a hopeless task, and residents were praying for rain or a change of wind to the north-east…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Fire. Serious Damage. 40 Men Lose Jobs. Newcastle, Thursday
The fire that broke out at the Nortbumberland Colliery, Fassifern, last evening, had practically burnt itself out late this afternoon. By that time, however, it bad done…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Fire Fiend Rages in City and Country--newcastle Colliery in Danger
FIERCE BUSH FIRES are raging through the Newcastle district, and extensive damage has been done to collieries. Picture shows the blazing pit top of Rosamonde colliery, near Cardiff. IN THE MIDST of blinding smoke, and with craking logs and burning bush around, this man…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Chinese Flee to Safety Fire Raced Through Furniture Factory Dog Burnt to Death
Wildly-ejaculating Chinese, one with a pigtail flowing in his wake, fled, with armfuls of carpenters' tools, into M'Evoy Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bungling Methods of Board of Non-control Buying Water Plight at Young Serious Fire Danger Young
MANY householders at Young are being forced to buy water delivered to their homes at 6/- a hundred gallons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bushfires. Still Raging. Large Areas Swept
Bushfires occurred yesterday in many parts of the State, the intense, dry heat and high winds of the past few days having made conditions dangerously favourable for their…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Homes at Stake Women and Children in Fight Fierce Bushfires . Man Collapse in Terrific Heat Cessnock
Practically the whole population of the village of Laguna, about 23 miles from Cessnock, participated in a desperate fight to save their homes from the fierce bush fires-which surrounded them. Wonderful assistance was…
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