Did She Set Fire to Her Clothes ? Woman's' Death Had Been Sick Petrol Used
A WOMAN was so badly burned about the arms and body last night that she died at Sydney Hospital later. It is alleged she…
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World-wide Death and Disaster on Good Friday Australia's 12 Crossing Horror in Spain English Gale Fire at Famous Haddon Hall
DISASTER and death marred Good Friday in many parts of the world. In Australia the Red roll totalled 12, four violent deaths occurring to New South Wales…
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A CONFERENCE of match and cigarette manufacturers to discuss the feasibility of introducing fireproof matches and self-extinguishing cigarettes…
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Adventure and tragedy marked the voyage to Ocean Island of the steamer Barrdale, which called at Sydney yesterday…
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BUCHAREST (Rumania), Saty. Attending a Good Friday service, 144 persons, including two priests, were incinerated…
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A fire early today, at a haberdashery shop in Oxford street, Waverley. occupied by Mrs. E. Cribb, destroyed the front portion of the shop, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spectacular Blaze Boatshed on Bank of Yarra Melbourne
Mirrored by the River Yarra, a fire last night that destroyed the boat building plant and premises of W. H. Jerram and Son, which are situated…
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A fire occurred last night at Mrs. Casey's dressmaker's shop, 27 Glebe Point-road, Glebe. The building, which was used as a chop and dwelling, was of two stories and a basement…
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Within 20 minutes last night the top floor of the Richmond Rowing Club's boatshed, on the south bank of the Yarra, near Prince's Bridge, was totally destroyed by fire…
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A weatherboard building known as Old Tathra Post-office, owned by Mr. Benjamin Gowing, and its contents, owned by Mr. Bassil Lawler, were destroyed by fire early…
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Standing near a fire at her home yesterday Dulcie Porter, 9, of Blair Street. Toralha, was badly burned about the body and arms when her clothing became…
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A two-storied corrugated lion building, owned by Mr. Mark Poters, building contractor, of Frankston, was greatly damaged by a flie which began in an elevator outside the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pulled Race Out of Fire Poitiers' Game Display
HALF a furlong from home in the second division of Saturday's Vaucluse Handicap, the favorite. Poitiers, appeared to have little chance of…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.--Mrs. Bowring, wife of an hotel licensee at Taueru, near Masterton, had just put a match to a copper fire…
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The biggest fire in Grafton for many years occurred early on Good Friday morning, when Fraser and Co., Ltd.'s, sawmill, on the banks of the Clarence River, was destroyed…
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Constable Mannes's clothes were set on fire in a city hotel on Saturday while some bets were being made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Strenuous Days on Barrdale Fire at Sea, Hot Days, and Rough Seas
When cruising around Ocean Island and Nauru the crew of the steamer Barrdale, which arrived on Saturday, had a…
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Slight damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the bedroom of a residential occupied by Nora Potter, in Oxford street, near Dowling-street,…
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A bedroom on the first floor of the residential of Mrs. Dora Potter, corner of Dowling and Oxford streets. Paddington, was slightly damaged by…
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The fittings and stock of a haberdashery shop in Oxford-street, Woollahra, managed by Mrs. Cribb, were almost totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Paddington and…
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